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Having left for Damascus on [[February 12]], 1961, Archim. Anthony reposed en route at Cairo in April 1961.
Rev. Fr. '''''Stephen Godley''''' was a priest of the [[Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand]]. He was a [[deacon]] by 1982[http://www.antiochian.org.nz/spotlight/spot80-83.html], and was ordained to the priesthood before his authorship . In 1987, he was listed as being the parish priest of St Mary's in Mays Hill during their move from Granville to Merrylands[http://www.antiochianarch.org.au/HistoryofAntiochianOrthodoxyinAustralasia.aspx]. In 1996, he authored ''The Eastern Orthodox in Australia'', which was published in 1996 by the Australian Government Publishing Service. By 2000, he had retired from active service in the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese. In 2010, he liturgised at the newlybriefly-established Nowra mission of the Antiochian Archdiocese. He had a long career on ABC Radio[http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2015/01/23/4167229.htm], and presented at the 1995 [[St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College (Sydney, Australia)|SAGOTC]] Retreat[http://www.greekorthodox.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/VoO_Aug_1995.pdf].
Rev. Fr. '''''John Shehadie''''', born 1908, was the second son of Rev. [[Exarch]] [[Nicholas Shehadie]] to be ordained priest. Part of Bp. [[Gibran (Ramlawey) of Australia and New Zealand|Gibran]]'s plans when he came to Australia included the building of a new church in the western suburbs of Sydney, and so, St. Nicholas Church was built in Punchbowl, a suburb once referred to as 'little Lebanon' (in the same way as Redfern was once referred to as 'little Syria'). Fr. John served here from 1973 until his retirement in 1987. Among the Arabic-speaking community, he was usually known as 'Fr. Hanna' (being the abbreviation of his originally-Arabic name)
==New Zealand==
Rev. Hmk. '''''Nicholas (Manovitch)''''' was the founding priest of St Michael Orthodox Church, Dunedin. He appears to have received ordination from a [[bishop]] in Canada that was outside the Orthodox Church, then went to New Zealand where he encouraged the Orthodox Syrians to found St Michael's, pastoring it between 1913-16, and went to Australia where he had close ties to the Bolshevik group in Brisbane. He was arrested for extortion, demanding outrageous amounts of money for [[baptism]]s and weddings, and disappeared from the religious scene when Fr. [[Paul Korchinsky ]] came to Australia, at the request of the Russian Imperial Consul-General. He died in 1925 and is buried in Queensland.
''Source'': V. Rev. Fr. [[Michael Protopopov]], ''[http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp87.09042006/02whole.pdf The Russian Orthodox Presence in Australia]'', p24-35. (''warning: large file'')
*V. Rev. Fr. '''[[Jack Witbrock]]''' is the Dean of New Zealand, 2003-present, and the first New Zealander ordained to the priesthood, serving St. Michael's Orthodox Church, Dunedin, 1971-87 and Ss. Simon and Jude, Ashley, from 1987-presentuntil his repose.
*V. Rev. Fr. '''[[Ilyan Eades]]''' is was an archpriest in the Deanery of New Zealand and serves served at St. Michael's Orthodox Church, Dunedin, from 1987-presentuntil his repose.
*V. Rev. Fr. '''[[Ian Nield]]''' is rector of the Antiochian Orthodox missionary parish in Wellington, 2003-present, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Archdiocese, 2000-present. Fr Ian was ordained to the priesthood in January 2003 (the seventh Antiochian priest to be ordained for New Zealand), deemed worthy of the privilege of being a Confessor and granted the [[epigonation]] in May 2006. He was elevated to Archpriest in May 2009.
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