The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand was an

archdiocese In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...

of the

Greek Orthodox Church The term Greek Orthodox Church ( Greek: Ἑλληνορθόδοξη Ἐκκλησία, ''Ellinorthódoxi Ekklisía'', ) has two meanings. The broader meaning designates "the entire body of Orthodox (Chalcedonian) Christianity, sometimes also cal ...

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by ...

and

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island coun ...

, part of the

Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism. Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or " canonical ...

religion. It was a jurisdiction of the

Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople ( el, Οἰκουμενικὸν Πατριαρχεῖον Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, translit=Oikoumenikón Patriarkhíon Konstantinoupóleos, ; la, Patriarchatus Oecumenicus Constanti ...

. The archdiocese was split in 1970 to form the '

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia is the Australian archdiocese of the Greek Orthodox Church, part of the wider communion of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. The archdiocese is a jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinop ...

' and the 'Metropolis of New Zealand'

History

In March 1924, the 'Metropolis of Australia and New Zealand' was established under the

Ecumenical Patriarchate The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople ( el, Οἰκουμενικὸν Πατριαρχεῖον Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, translit=Oikoumenikón Patriarkhíon Konstantinoupóleos, ; la, Patriarchatus Oecumenicus Constanti ...

. The first

Metropolitan Metropolitan may refer to: * Metropolitan area, a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories * Metropolitan borough, a form of local government district in England * Metropolitan county, a typ ...

of the new province of the Ecumenical Thronos was Christoforos Knitis of Serres, who presided from 1924-1928. He was succeeded by Metropolitan

Timotheos Evangelinidis Timotheos Evangelinidis ( el, Τιμόθεος Ευαγγελινίδης; 23 April 1880 in Polichnitos, Lesbos – 6 October 1949 in Istanbul), was a Greek priest and Greek Orthodox bishop who presided over the Metropolis of Australia and New ...

from 1931 to 1947, Metropolitan

Theophylactos Papathanasopoulos Metropolitan Theophylactos (born Vasileios Papathanasopoulos; 1891–1958) was a Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia. Biography Papathanasopoulos was born on the feast of St. Basil on 1 January 189 ...

from 1947 to 1958 and Metropolitan

Ezekiel Tsoukalas Archbishop Ezekiel Tsoukalas ( el, Ιεζεκιήλ Τσουκαλάς; 13 May 1913 – 1 July 1987) was a Greek bishop and the first Archbishop of Australia in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia. Archbishop Ezekiel was an assistant b ...

from 1959. The ''Metropolis of Australia and New Zealand'' was elevated to an archdiocese in 1959 and Metropolitan Ezekiel was elevated to archbishop. In 1970, Ecumenical Patriarchate split the archdiocese into the ''

'' and the ''Metropolis of New Zealand''. Archbishop Ezekiel remained as hierarch of the

until 1974, when he was succeeded by

Stylianos Harkianakis Stylianos Harkianakis ( el, Στυλιανός Χαρκιανάκης; 29 December 1935 – 25 March 2019) was the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Australia and Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia. He served as inaugural and perm ...

Primates in Australia and New Zealand

Christoforos of Australia and New Zealand (1924–1929) * Metropolitan

Timotheos Timotheus is a masculine male name. It is a latinized version of the Greek name (Timόtheos) mmeaning "one who honours God", from τιμή "honour" and θεός "god"., . The English version '' Timothy'' (and its variations) is a common name in ...

of Australia and New Zealand (1931–1947) * Metropolitan Theophylactos of Australia and New Zealand (1947–1958) * Metropolitan

Ezekiel Ezekiel (; he, יְחֶזְקֵאל ''Yəḥezqēʾl'' ; in the Septuagint written in grc-koi, Ἰεζεκιήλ ) is the central protagonist of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible. In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Ezekiel is ac ...

of Australia and New Zealand (1959–1974) * Metropolitan Stylianos of Australia and New Zealand (1975-2019) * Metropolitian

Makarios Macarius is a Latinized form of the old Greek given name Makários (Μακάριος), meaning "happy, fortunate, blessed"; confer the Latin '' beatus'' and ''felix''. Ancient Greeks applied the epithet ''Makarios'' to the gods. In other langua ...

of Australia (2019-)

References

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External links

Official Site - The Greek Orthodox Church in Australia
Eastern Orthodoxy in Australia Eastern Orthodoxy in New Zealand Australia and New Zealand Greek-Australian culture Greek-New Zealand culture Eastern Orthodox dioceses in Oceania