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calendar=[[Revised Julian Calendar|Revised Julian]]|
population=364,556
([http://www.cra.org.au/pages/00000226.cgi Census 2001]) to ~750, including only specified Greek Orthodox000 (Archdiocesan estimate)|
website=[http://home.it.com.au/~jgrapsas/pages/main.htm Greek Archdiocese]
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==Ecclesiastical Organisation==
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia is treated as one single archdiocese with five archdiocesan districts: [[List of parishes in New South Wales|New South Wales]] and the [[List of parishes in the Australian Capital Territory|Australian Capital Territory]]; [[List of parishes in Victoria|Victoria]] and [[List of parishes in Tasmania|Tasmania]]; [[List of parishes in South Australia|South Australia]] and the [[List of parishes in the Northern Territory|Northern Territory]]; [[List of parishes in Queensland|Queensland]] and New Guinea; and [[List of parishes in Western Australia|Western Australia]]. To assist the archbishop, he has a number of assistant bishops - currently three, but in previous times as many as five. There are , overseeing the 118 [[parish]]es and communities across Australia, and over 750,000 [[faithful]] in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia.
The Archdiocese also includes 6 [[monasticism|monasteries]]. The largest male monastery is the Holy [[Monastery of Pantanassa (Mangrove, Australia)|Monastery of Pantanassa]] on the Central Coast of New South Wales, and the largest female monastery is the Holy [[Monastery of Gorgoepikoos (Geelong, Australia)|Monastery of Gorgoepikoos]] in Geelong, Victoria.
