DIOCESE OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: January 18, 2011
Nativity at the Headquarters of the Diocese of Australia and New Zealand (Photo-report)

On Friday, January 7, 2011, the great feast of the Nativity of Christ, His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, Archbishop of Sydney and New Zealand, celebrated Divine Liturgy at SS Peter and Paul Cathedral in Sydney. Photographs of the event can be viewed here.

On Saturday, January 8, the second day of the Nativity of Christ, His Eminence, in accordance with tradition, officiated at Divine Liturgy in his Archbishop’s Chapel dedicated to All Russian Saints in Croydon. After the service, His Eminence Vladyka received his clergymen and parishioners of the Sydney Deanery. Photographs of this event can be viewed here.