DIOESE OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: July 14, 2006

Archbishop Hilarion Heads Celebrations at SS Peter and Paul Cathedral

On July 12, the feast day of SS Peter and Paul Cathedral in Sydney, Australia, the Chief Deputy of the President of the Synod of Bishops, His Eminence Archbishop Hilarion of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand, officiated at Divine Liturgy along with Protopriest John Stukach, Protopriest Michael Li, Protopriest Michael Boikov and Protopriest George Lapardin, Hieromonk John and Priest Alexander Korzhenevsky, along with Protodeacon Boris Evtigneev and Protodeacon German Polorotov, Deacon Alexander Kotliaroff and a great multitude of parishioners and worshipers visiting from other churches and cities of New South Wales. During the minor entrance, His Eminence awarded Fr George, a clergyman of the Cathedral, with the palitsa in recognition of his pastoral work.