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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)
