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{{orthodoxyinaustralasiaorthodoxyinaustralia}}This article seeks to serve as a catch-all point for the four jurisdictions in Australia who are small enough to not warrant a resident bishop - the Bulgarian Orthodox Diocese, the Moscow Patriarchal parishes, the Orthodox Church in America parishes both current and the Polish Orthodox parishformer.

== 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, Newcastle).*Hierarch: Bishop Mark of Yegoryevsk''unknown''*Began: First parish in 1988.#Sydney: Holy Protection Orthodox Church, Head of Special Secretariat of the Patriarchal Chancellery for Administration of Patriarchal Establishments Outside the Patriarchal TerritoriesBlacktown. Established 1988.<ref>[http://www.orthodoxeuropeorthodoxy.org.au]#Melbourne: Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity, Oakleigh. Established 1989. [http:/page/14holy-trinity.org.au/169]#Newcastle: Parish of the Theophany, Mayfield West. Established 1996, since closed (c.2010) with parishioners incorporated into St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, Wallsend.aspx == Historical Listings == ===Consistory of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Australia and New Zealand===*Last Hierarch: Metropolitan [[Antony (Scharba) of Hierapolis]]</ref> .*Last local administrative head: Very Rev. Michael Solomko (Consistory President)*Began: First parish 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 1988 Australia were incorporated into the [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia]] (under Archbishop [[Makarios (Blacktown-SydneyGriniezakis) of Australia|Makarios]]); second parish . ===Orthodox Church in Melbourne; third parish Ukraine in 1996 Australia===*Last Hierarch: ''unknown''.*Last local administrative head: ''unknown''.*Began: January 2019 (as part of the [[Orthodox Church of Ukraine]]. (MayfieldHad 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: Two in Australia (one 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.*Last local administrative head: Archimandrite Benjamin (Garshin) (1971-1995).

===Polish Orthodox Church in Australia===*Number of ParishesBegan: One 1969, with two priests who left ROCOR and were received as priests in South Australiathe Polish Orthodox Church Abroad (under the Ecumenical Patriarchate).*HierarchConcluded: ''unknown''*Began: 1971Uncertain; however, at some point during the 1970s, both priests were within the [[Parishes in ROCOR schismAustralia (OCA)|OCA]].  

*[http://wwwbooks.crezgoogle.org Romanian Churches 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).