The Archbishop of Australia is the Representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate for 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 ...

, a jurisdiction 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 ...

under the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 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 ...

Christian religion. The position was most recently held by Archbishop Stylianos. List of Ecumenical Patriarchate

Greek Orthodox 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 ...

Archbishops of Australia: *

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 ...

of Nazianzos (1 September 1959 – August 1974) * Stylianos Harkianakis (26 April 1975 – 25 March 2019) *

Makarios Griniezakis Archbishop Makarios Griniezakis (Greek: Μακάριος Γρινιεζάκης; born 15 March 1973) is the current archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church of Australia and the primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, succeeding Ar ...

– 29 June 2019

History

On 1 September 1959, the 'Metropolis of Australia and New Zealand' was elevated to Archdiocese and Metropolitan Ezekiel was elevated to Archbishop. In August 1974, the Ecumenical Patriarchate promoted Archbishop Ezekiel to the Metropolis of Pisidia. On 3 February 1975, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate unanimously elected Metropolitan of Miletoupolis Stylianos Harkianakis, lecturer at the University of Thessaloniki, as the new Archbishop of Australia. He arrived in Sydney on 15 April 1975 and was officially enthroned on Lazarus Saturday on 26 April 1975.

References

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