His Grace Bishop Jovan of Slavonia will visit Australia from 25 September until 12 October.

Listen to an exclusive interview with His Grace Bishop Irinej of the Metropolitanate of Australia and New Zealand, the newly-elected Bishop of the Eastern American Diocese. After 10 years of his appointment in Australia Bishop Irinej will be enthroned in Pittsburgh, PA on Saturday, October 1, 2016. We talked about his legacy here in Australia and his new challenges in America.

During the Hierarchical Divine Liturgy officiated in the Cathedral of Holy Archangel Michael in Belgrade by Serbian Patriarch Irinej and concelebrating Hierarchs, the new Serbian Bishop of Australia-New Zealand Siluan (Mrakic) was consecrated Bishop.

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On the Fifth Sunday from the Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles, 24th of July 2016, in the church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker of Myra and Lycia in Woolloongabba, Brisbane the patron saint of the Circle of Serbian Sisters, Saint Kyriaki the Great-martyr, was celebrated.

ON ORGAN and TISSUE DONATION

The position of the Serbian Orthodox Church in specific regarding ORGAN and TISSUE

DONATION is one in the same as that of the Orthodox Church in general.

The Orthodox Church fully respects the dignity and individual integrity of the human person

as created by God in His image and likeness and endowed with free will. Therefore, the

question of organ and tissue donation is left to the personal choice of the individual in

consultation with their spiritual father and medical doctor.

That having been said, as permitted by the Orthodox Church, the individual is guided to

understand the following points of reference when making their choice:

St Lazarus Serbian Orthodox Church and Parish Alexandria – NSW

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Bishop Siluan (Mrakić), MTh, born Alexander, comes from a devout and pious family from the Herzegovina hamlet of Budim Do, in the Trebinje district. He was born on the Feast Day of Holy Prophet Moses, 17 September 1979, in Sydney Australia, the son of Veljko and Janja (nee Vukanovic) Mrakic, and baptized the same year in the Serbian Orthodox Church of St Nicholas in Blacktown, Sydney.

Encyclical of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church

ENCYCLICAL
OF THE HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL
OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
Crete 2016

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit

With a hymn of thanksgiving, we praise and worship God in Trinity, who has enabled us to gather together during the days of the feast of Pentecost here on the island of Crete, which has been sanctified by St. Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles, and his disciple Titus, his "true son in the common faith" (Tit 1.4), and, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, to conclude the sessions of this Holy and Great Council of our Orthodox Church – convened by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, by the common will of Their Beatitudes the Primates of the most holy Orthodox Churches – for the glory of His most holy Name and for the great blessing of His people and of the whole world, confessing with the divine Paul: "Let people then regard us thus: as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God" (1 Cor 4.1).

Number 1.

OFFICE OF THE PANORTHODOX SECRETARIAT

English Version
Tuesday, 21 June, 2016
Number 1.

HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH

Orthodox Academy of Crete 18-27 June 2016

He divided the nations.
When He distributed the tongues of fire, He called all to UNITY.
And with one voice we glorify the All-Holy Spirit.
(Kontakion of Pentecost)