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On 1 September of that year, the [[Metropolis]] of Australia and New Zealand was elevated to [[Archdiocese]], and Ezekiel to Archbishop. Later, in 1970, the Holy Synod of the [[Church of Constantinople]] separated New Zealand from Australia, leaving the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and the [[Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Zealand]]. In 1974 Ezekiel was promoted to the Metropolis of Pisidia, and the current Archbishop, [[Stylianos (Harkianakis) of Australia|Stylianos (Harkianakis)]], was elected on 13 February 1974 and enthroned on 26 April, 1975.
== Recent History ==
In 2005, the Greek Orthodox Parish-Community of St George, Hobart, has split due to rebel the parish council breaking deciding to break ties with the Archdiocese. The church building has gone to those ejected from the Archdiocese of Australia and who are now affiliated with the schismatic splinter group the Autonomous Greek Orthodox Church of America and Australia(considered to be schismatic by the Archdiocese). The canonical priest in Hobart, Fr Timothy Evangelinidis, remains under the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and has begun a new parish of St George under the Archdiocesein Hobart.
In early February 2006 the new parish of St. Therapon in Warhoonga, in the northern suburbs of Sydney, celebrated their first Divine Liturgy.
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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 118 [[parish]]es and communities across Australia, and over 750,000 [[faithful]] in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia.