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''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 Sts Simon and Jude, Ashley, 1987-present.
*V. Rev. Fr '''[[Ilyan Eades]]''' is an archpriest in the Deanery of New Zealand and serves at St Michael's Orthodox Church, Dunedin, 1987-present.
*Rev. Fr '''[[Ian Nield]]''' is [[rector]] of the Antiochian Orthodox parish in Wellington, 2002-present, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Archdiocese, 2000-present.
Rev. Fr '''''Michael Elder''''' is [[rector]] of the domestic [[chapel]] in Diamond Harbour, New Zealand[http://www.antiochian.org.nz/parishes/Dhb/chapel_frame.htm]. Born in the 1920s, he was ordained to the diaconate in the 1990s. At the first New Zealand clergy conference for the Deanery of New Zealand in 2003, he was ordained to the priesthood, and in 2004 he was awarded the [[epigonation]] by Met. Abp Paul, making him a Confessor[http://www.antiochian.org.nz/spotlight/spot04b.html]. He has also written an article, entitled ''[http://www.antiochian.org.nz/brite/ Byzantine Rite Worship in the Holy Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Church]''.
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