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{{orthodoxyinaustralasiaorthodoxyinaustralia}}This article seeks to serve as a catch-all point for the five jurisdictions in Australia who are small enough to not warrant a resident bishop. The largest is the Romanian Orthodox Church- both current and former.

== Current Jurisdictions == ===Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese in the USA, Canada and Australia===

 #Sydney: St [[John of Rila ]] Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church. [http://www.bulgariandiocese.org/parishdirectory.html?type=details&id=28][http://www.pageone.net.au/~rilski/index.htm]

===Moscow Patriarchate in Australia===*Number of Parishes: Three Two in Australia (Melbourne, Sydney, Hamilton).

*Began: First parish in 1988.#Sydney: Holy Protection Orthodox Church, Blacktown. Established 1988. [http://www.orthodoxy.org.au]#Melbourne: Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity, Oakleigh. Established 1989. [http://holy-trinity.org.au/]#Newcastle: Parish of the Theophany, Mayfield West. Established 1996, since closed (c.2010) with parishioners incorporated into St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, Wallsend. == Historical Listings == ===Consistory of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Australia and New Zealand===*Last Hierarch: Metropolitan [[Antony (Scharba) of Hierapolis]].*Last local administrative head: Very Rev. Michael Solomko (Consistory President)*Began: 1950*Number of Parishes at conclusion: 10 parishes and 2 missions, in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and New Zealand.*Concluded: May 2022. All Ukrainian Orthodox parishes in Australia were incorporated into the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia]] (under Archbishop [[Makarios (Griniezakis) of Australia|Makarios]]). ===Orthodox Church in Ukraine in Australia===*Last Hierarch: ''unknown''.*Last local administrative head: ''unknown''.*Began: January 2019 (as part of the [[Orthodox Church of Ukraine]]. (Had previously been part of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kyivan Patriarchate).*Number of Parishes at conclusion: 5, in Sydney, Newcastle, Adelaide and Brisbane.*Concluded: May 2022. All Ukrainian Orthodox parishes in Australia were incorporated into the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia]] (under Archbishop [[Makarios (Griniezakis) of Australia|Makarios]]).

===Orthodox Church in America - Parishes in Australia===

*Number of Parishes: Three in Australia (two in Sydney, one in Brisbane)*Last Hierarch: Metropolitan [[Herman Jonah (SwaikoPaffhausen) of Washington and New York|Herman of Washington and New York]], administrator of the Parishes in Australia.*BeganLast local administrative head: Archimandrite Benjamin (Garshin) (1971, in ROCOR schism. ==Polish Orthodox Church in Australia==*Number of Parishes: One in Australia-1995).*Hierarch: ''unknown''

==Romanian =Polish Orthodox Church in Australia and New Zealand===*Number of ParishesBegan: Five in Australia1969, one with two priests who left ROCOR and were received as priests in New Zealandthe Polish Orthodox Church Abroad (under the Ecumenical Patriarchate).*HierarchConcluded: Metropolitan Uncertain; however, at some point during the 1970s, both priests were within the [[Nicolae Parishes in Australia (CorneanuOCA) of Banat|Nicolae of BanatOCA]], exarch for all Orthodox Romanians in the diaspora.*Began: First parish in 1972

*[http://www.crezorthodoxy.org Romanian Churches .au/ Moscow Patriarchal Church Blacktown]*[http://books.google.com/books?id=Zuoyd6jG6q8C&lpg=PP1&dq=protopopov&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false A Russian Presence: A history of the Russian Church in Australia], by V. Rev. Fr [[Michael Protopopov]] (page 239).