On Thursday, 7 November 2024, His Eminence Metropolitan Siluan received Liberal candidate for the federal seat of Werriwa, Mr Sam Kayal, at his residence in Cabramatta. Mr Kayal and His Eminence had an open and frank dialogue about the many issues impacting our church and, in particular, our youth. They also...
On Thursday the 31st of October, on the feast day of St Luke the Apostle and St Peter of Cetinje, His Eminence Metropolitan Siluan served Divine Hierarchical Liturgy with the concelebration of clergy from the Sydney Deanery at St Luke's Serbian Orthodox Church in Liverpool. On this day the Parish...
During his archpastoral visit to Brisbane, at the invitation of the principal, Metropolitan Siluan visited the newly founded Orthodox classical school - St John of Kronstadt Academy in Brisbane. After a cordial welcome by the principal, faculty, and students, Metropolitan Siluan was led into the chapel where he was formally welcomed...
On Monday, October 14, 2024, the Circle of Serbian Sisters at St George Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in Cabramata celebrated their patronal feast day The Protection of Our Most Holy Lady The Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary. His Eminence Metropolitan Siluan was prayerfully present at Divine Liturgy served by Protopresbyter-stavrofor Djuro Djurdjevic. Before...
His Eminence Metropolitan of Australia and New Zealand Siluan, arrived on Friday October 4 to South Australia for his archpastoral visit to the Serbian Orthodox faithful of Adelaide. On this occasion His Eminence visited the Monastery of the Nativity of the Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary in Inglewood, and both...
On Sunday the 29th of September 2024, His Eminence Metropolitan Siluan served Divine Hierarchical Liturgy with the concelebration of Fr Aleksandar Ivanovic and Protodeacon Petar Mrakic at St Archdeacon Stefan's Serbian Orthodox Church in Rooty Hill. Ilija Kesic
On Saturday, the 28th of September 2024, vespers was served at the St George Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in Cabramatta. On this occasion, His Eminence Metropolitan Siluan celebrated his Name Day with the clergy and faithful of the Sydney Deanery. Their Excellencies the General Consul of Serbia, Mr. Jakov Rogan and...
On Thursday the 19th of September 2024, the seventieth anniversary since the completion of the first Serbian Orthodox Church in Australia - St Sava's in Flemington, was solemnly celebrated at the Waterview complex at Sydney Olympic Park in Homebush Bay. This great feat was accomplished by the grace of God...
On Tuesday the 24th of September, on the feast day of St Siluan the Athonite, His Eminence Metropolitan Siluan served Divine Hierarchical Liturgy in honour of his Patron Saint, with the concelebration of clergy from the Melbourne-Adelaide Deanery at St Archdeacon Stefan Serbian Orthodox Church in Keysborough, Melbourne.
On Sunday, September 22, when our Holy Church prayerfully celebrates St Joachim and St Anna and the Holy Martyr Severian, His Eminence Metropolitan Siluan served Divine Hierarchical Liturgy with the concelebration of clergy from the Melbourne-Adelaide Deanery at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Brunswick, Melbourne. The church in Brunswick was filled...
On the feast day of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, in the evening hours, His Eminence Metropolitan Siluan visited St Petka Serbian Orthodox Church in the Melbourne suburb of Rockbank. The reason for this visit was the 39th annual humanitarian evening, known among the Serbs...
On Friday, 13 September 2024, the Feast Day of the Holy Jasenovac New Martyrs was prayerfully celebrated with Divine Hierarchical Liturgy and a Moleben service to the Holy New Martyrs of Jasenovac at St Sava New Kalenic Serbian Orthodox Monastery near Canberra. On this day, the Federation of Circles of...
His Eminence Metropolitan Siluan visited Perth on the 6th of September arriving in the early evening hours, accompanied by Protodeacon Petar Mrakic. On September 7, vespers was served at Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church in the prayerful presence of clergy and faithful from the Perth Deanery. At the conclusion of vespers,...
On Saturday the 31st of August, His Eminence Metropolitan Siluan visited St Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church in Wacol, Brisbane. At the conclusion of Great vespers, Metropolitan Siluan greeted the gathered faithful, delivering an instructive sermon on the importance of prayer for our Christian life and also expressing his joy for...
His Holiness Serbian Patriarch kyr Porfirije sent a letter of strong and unconditional support to His Beatitude Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine kyr Onufriy, regarding the adoption of the Law on the Protection of the Constitutional Order in the Sphere of Activity of Religious Organizations by the Verkhovna Rada...
On Friday, August 9, 2024, on the feast day of the Holy Great Martyr Panteleimon, in the evening hours His Eminence Metropolitan Siluan blessed and opened the 36th Serbian Folkloric Festival in Bonnyrigg. This is the first day of the three-day largest national presentation of folkloric dance in Australia, and...
Having listened to and viewed the public debate around possible lithium mining in the Jadar Valley (western Serbia), including specialist reports which point to potentially catastrophic ecological risks to God’s creation: the environment, nature, subterranean waters, rivers and fields, and primarily the lives of people and children, it is my...
His Eminence, Metropolitan of Australia and New Zealand Siluan, on the feast day of the Holy Prophet Elijah the Tishbite, graciously visited South Australia and the city of Adelaide. The clergy and faithful gathered to welcome him in front of the Church of St. Sava, the First Archbishop of Serbia, in...
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic games in Paris was a vivid and most emphatic manifestation of what spirit has descended among men. Many people from across the world were left shocked, scandalised, and in disbelief watching what was unravelling before their eyes. This global event that gathers all...
To all clergy, monastics and the beloved faithful of the God-saved Metropolitanate of Australia and New Zealand Christ is Risen – Truly He is Risen! My dear spiritual children, by the grace of God, The most profound, most fateful quake in the history of humanity, a quake that tectonically moved, shattered and destroyed...
On Saturday, January 27, 2024, on the Feast Day and Slava Day of St. Sava the First Archbishop of Serbia, His Grace Bishop Siluan served Divine Hierarchical Liturgy at St. Sava New Kalenic Serbian Orthodox Monastery near Canberra with the concelebration of clergy from the Sydney Deanery. The monastery’s church was...
+SILUAN BY THE GRACE OF GOD THE ORTHODOX BISHOP OF ANZ To all clergy, monastic clergy, monastics and the faithful people of the God-saved Metropolitanate of Australia and New Zealand: God's Peace - Christ is Born! My dear spiritual children in the God-child Christ, The feast of Christmas, the Birth of the God-child Christ, is...
