*[[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. (since withdrawn)

According to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, ROCOR chose to withdraw from membership in SCCOCA <!-- in 19xx, because of tensions created by the rise in ecumenism <!-- in 19xx ? -->.

The According to the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand says , SCCOCA's complete inactivity between March 2000 (a letter from Bp [[Seraphim (Ginis) of Apollonias|Seraphim]]; before that, 1999) and March 2006 justifies its view of SCCOCA as being dead; consequently, it is impossible to exclude from a non-existant organisation.[http://www.antiochian.org.au/content/view/394/6/ SCCOCA is dead] having been totally inactive from 1999 to 2006. Since SCCOCA is dead, its former chairman cannot pretend to exclude any jurisdiction from membership.

The Consistant with the aforementioned view, the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese considers 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 (Saliba) of Australia and New Zealand| SCCOCA deadPaul]], having been totally inactive from 1999 until March 2006).

According to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, SCCOCA member churches concelebrate concelebrated on the Vespers of Orthodoxy and Thomas Sunday.

:"In March 2006, Vespers of the Sunday of Orthodoxy was celebrated at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Marrickville with Archbishop [[Stylianos (Harkianakis) of Australia|Stylianos]] of the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia|Greek Orthodox Church]], the Bishop [[Milutin (Knezevic) of Australia and New Zealand|Milutin ]] of the [[Serbian Orthodox Dioceses of Australia and New Zealand|Serbian Orthodox Church]], as well as representative 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 jurisdictions read the testimony from the 7th Ecumenical council in their respective languages as well as English. The ceremony ended with exchanges of words of love and solidarity by the bishops."

==External linklinks==* [http://home.it.com.au/~jgrapsas/pages/scocca.htm History of SCCOCA] from the website of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia (covering the foundation of SCCOCA)* [http://www.antiochian.org.au/content/view/394/6/ History of SCCOCA] from the website of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand (covering recent events regarding this Antiochian Archdiocese]]