renameuser, Administrators
5,600
edits
Changes
→New South Wales
Having left for Damascus on 12 February 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 is author was a deacon by 1982[http://www.antiochian.org.nz/spotlight/spot80-83.html], and was ordained to the priesthood before his authorship of ''The Eastern Orthodox in Australia'', which was published in 1996 by the Australian Government Publishing Service. In 2000 he left retired from active service in the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese.
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)
