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{{diocese|
name=Romanian Orthodox Diocese Episcopate of Australia and New Zealand|
jurisdiction=[[Church of Romania|Romania]]|
type=Diocese|
founded=2008|
bishop=[[Mihail Michael (Filimon)|Mihail]]|see=''Melbourne'', Vic., Aust.|hq=''Melbourne'', Vic., Aust.|
territory=Australia, New Zealand|
language=Romanian|
calendar=[[Revised Julian Calendar|Revised Julian]]|
population=''unknown''|
website=''[http://www.roeanz.com.au''Official website]
}}
The '''Romanian Orthodox Diocese Episcopate of Australia and New Zealand''' is a [[diocese]] of the [[Church of Romania]]. Archimandrite Bishop [[Mihail Michael (Filimon)|Mihail]] was elected as is the inaugural ruling [[bishop ]] for the Diocese. It diocese, and was enthroned on [[June 29]] 2008.
==History==
The first Romanian Orthodox [[parish ]] in Australasia was founded in 1972, but it was not until much later that there was any organisation of the parishes, with each parish directly responsible to a member of the Holy [[Synod ]] that was responsible for Romanian Orthodox in the diaspora.
In 2006, Fr Dumitru Coman, a parish priest in Melbourne, was made the [[Vicar ]] of the Romanian Orthodox Vicariate of Australia and New Zealand, and in 2008, the Diocese of Australia and New Zealand was founded with the election on [[March 5 March election ]] of [[Archimandrite ]] Mihail (Filimon) as the first ruling bishop.
==Organisation==
The Romanian Orthodox Diocese Episcopate of Australia and New Zealand is a single diocese with twelve churches - two each in Melbourne and Sydney, and one each in Adelaide, Brisbane, Bayswater, Geelong, Dandenong, Perth, Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch.
==Episcopacy==
==External links==
*[http://www.roeanz.com.au/ Official Website of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of Australia and New Zealand]
*[http://www.patriarhia.ro/ Official Website of the Patriarchate of Romania]
*[http://www.financiarul.ro/2008/06/26/enthronement-of-right-rev-mihail-the-first-bishop-of-the-romanian-orthodox-episcopate-of-australia-and-new-zealand/ Enthronement of Right Rev. Mihail, the first Bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of Australia and New Zealand]
[[Category:Orthodoxy in New Zealand]]
[[Category:Romanian Dioceses]]
 
[[ro:Eparhia Ortodoxă Română a Australiei şi Noii Zeelande]]
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