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According to Although Fr Gabriel Popescu was present at the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese foundation of Australia and New ZealandSCCOCA, SCCOCA's complete inactivity between March 2000 (a letter from Bp the [[Seraphim (Ginis) Church of ApolloniasRomania|SeraphimRomanian Orthodox Church]]; before that, 1999) and March 2006 justifies its view was never an actual member of SCCOCA as being dead; consequentlysince, it is impossible according to exclude from a non-existant organisation.Patriarch Teoctist, the [[http://www.antiochian.orgChurch of Romania|Romanian Patriarchate]] never sanctioned this move.au/content/view/394/6/]
:"In March 2006, Vespers of the Sunday of Orthodoxy was celebrated at St. Fr Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Marrickville with Archbishop [[Stylianos (Harkianakis) of Australia|Stylianos]] of Gan said the [["Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia|Greek Orthodox Church]], later put it about that ROCOR chose to depart in protest over the Bishop [[Milutin (Knezevic) of Australia and New Zealand|Milutin]] involvement of the [[Serbian Orthodox Dioceses of Australia and New Zealand|Serbian Orthodox Church]], as well as representative clergy from the [[Australian other jurisdictions without a local bishop|Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Partriarchate)]] and in the ecumenical movement." [[Australian jurisdictions without a local bishop|Romanian Orthodox Church]]http://www. In total about 35 clergy were present surrounded by about 500 faithfulantiochian. The event was powerful, sombre and moving as each of the jurisdictions read the testimony from the 7th Ecumenical council in their respective languages as well as Englishorg. The ceremony ended with exchanges of words of love and solidarity by the bishops."au/content/view/413/6/]
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The '''Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Churches in Australia''' (SCCOCA) was an organisation founded in 1979 under the leadership of [[Archbishop]] [[Stylianos (Harkianakis) of Australia]] and intended to help cooperation among the Orthodox jurisdictions in Australia, under the permanent chairmanship of the representative of the [[Church of Constantinople|Ecumenical Patriarchate]].
It could be presumed, but has not been officially stated, that SCCOCA was superseded by the Episcopal Assembly of Oceania.
==Founding members==
*[[Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand|Antiochian Orthodox Diocese of Australasia]]: delegation consisting of V. Rev. Fr. [[Nicolas Mansour]] (DeanExarch), legate of [[Bishop]] [[Gibran (RimlawiRamlawey) of Australia and New Zealand|Gibran]].
*[[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia]]: delegation consisting of Archbishop Stylianos, [[Archimandrite]] [[Stephanos (Pantanassiotis)|Stephanos]] (vicar-general of the archdiocese), and Mr James Samios (legal counsel and director of public relations for the archdiocese).
*[[Australian jurisdictions without a local bishop|Romanian Orthodox Church in Australia and New Zealand]]: delegation consisting of V. Rev. Dr. [[Gabriel Popescu]].
*[[ROCOR]] - [[Diocese of Australia and New Zealand (ROCOR)|Diocese of Australia and New Zealand]]: delegation consisting of Archbishop [[Theodosius (Putilin) of Sydney|Theodosius]] and Fr Nicholas Gan.
*[[Serbian Orthodox Church in Australia and New Zealand]](Metropolitanate of New Gracanica): delegation consisting of Bishop [[Vasilije (Vadic) of Australia and New Zealand|Vasilije]] and Fr Milorad Loncar.
==Membership-related Events==
===Regarding the [[Diocese Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand]]=== According to the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand , SCCOCA's complete inactivity between early 1999 and early 2006, (ROCORexcept for a letter from Bp [[Seraphim (Ginis)of Apollonias|Russian Seraphim]] in March 2000), justifies its view of SCCOCA as being dead. The Antiochian Archdiocese looks forward to a time when it is possible for all Orthodox jurisdictions in Australia to come together co-operatively and with unity. There is an allegation from Greek Orthodox sources that "the acceptance by the Antiochian Archdiocese of schismatic Romanian communities run by defrocked priests has forced the exclusion of the Antiochian Archdiocese from SCCOCA". The Antiochian Archdiocese denies that any Romanian communities within its jurisdiction were schismatic or run by defrocked priests. Rather, the Romanian priest was released with the personal permission and blessing of Patriarch [[Teoctist (Arapasu) of Romania|Teoctist]], and subsequently established a worship community which has always been within the Antiochian Archdiocese and has therefore never been schismatic [http://www.antiochian.org.au/content/view/394/6/]. Added to which, a chairman has no right or authority to exclude any jurisdiction on his own motion without a decision by SCCOCA itself. ===Regarding the [[Greek Orthodox Church Outside RussiaArchdiocese of Australia]]===ROCOR chose According to withdraw the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, SCCOCA still exists because two of the member bishops, and visitors from membership other jurisdictions, concelebrated Vespers on the Sunday of Orthodoxy and Bright Friday in SCCOCA<!-- 2006: :"In March 2006, Vespers of the Sunday of Orthodoxy was celebrated at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in 19xxMarrickville with Archbishop [[Stylianos (Harkianakis) of Australia|Stylianos]] of the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia|Greek Orthodox Church]], because the Bishop [[Milutin (Knezevic) of Australia and New Zealand|Milutin]] of tensions created the [[Serbian Orthodox Church in Australia and New Zealand|Serbian Orthodox Church]], as well as clergy from the [[Australian jurisdictions without a local bishop|Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Partriarchate)]] and the [[Australian jurisdictions without a local bishop|Romanian Orthodox Church]]. In total about 35 clergy were present surrounded by about 500 faithful. The event was powerful, sombre and moving as each of the rise jurisdictions read the testimony from the [[Seventh_Ecumenical_Council|7th Ecumenical council]] in ecumenism? their respective languages as well as English. The ceremony ended with exchanges of words of love and solidarity by the bishops. In similar spirit on the morning of Friday after Pascha (28 April 2006), SCOCCA again joined to concelebrate the Paschal Liturgy and to share a common Paschal meal at the Greek Orthodox Parish of St. Euphemia, Bankstown NSW." A [http://www.spc.org.yu/Vesti-2006/05/04-05-06-e.html#aus report on the Bright Friday event] from a Serbian source refers to this as a concelebration of a "Pan->Orthodox Holy Hierarchical Liturgy".
===Regarding the [[Antiochian Australian jurisdictions without a local bishop|Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of Church in Australia and New Zealand]]===According to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, the acceptance of schismatic Romanian communities run by defrocked priests has forced SCCOCA to exclude the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand from membership until said actions are reversed.{{citation}}
==Current Events==Consistant with Regarding the aforementioned view, the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese [[Diocese of Australia and New Zealand can not consider there to be current events from an organisation that "[http://www.antiochian.org.au/content/view/394/6/ was dead]" (Metropolitan [[Paul (SalibaROCOR) of Australia and New Zealand|PaulRussian Orthodox Church Outside Russia]]).===
According to Father Nicholas Gan, the ROCOR archbishop's official representative to SCCOCA at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesetime, there was disquiet within ROCOR about some of the ecumenical activities of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. But he said ROCOR was "driven out of SCCOCA member churches concelebrated on after one too many screaming matches from the Vespers chief antagonist" in that organisation, and because of Orthodoxy that hierarch's "invective" about ROCOR being "totally non-canonical" and Thomas Sunday"having no right to be in Australia, because it is a territory of the Ecumenical Patriarchate".
==See also==
*[[Standing Conference of the Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas]]
*[[Eastern Hierarchs]]
==External links==
* [http://homewww.itgreekorthodox.comnet.au/~jgrapsas/pages/scocca.htm History Standing Conference of SCCOCACanonical Orthodox Churches in Australia (S.C.C.O.C.A.)] , from the website of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia (covering source for the foundation of SCCOCA).* [http://www.antiochian.org.au/content/view/394/6/ History of SCCOCAAustralia "Dead"] from the website , providing a history of SCCOCA, as well as recent events regarding the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese . (source of Australia and New Zealand (covering recent Antiochian events regarding this Antiochian Archdiocese]])
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