A Divine Liturgy has been scheduled to take place in the English language once a month in the Greek Orthodox church of the Annunciation of Our Lady in Melbourne. The next liturgy will take place on Thursday, December 3, at 6:15 pm.
The Holy Church of “The Annunciation of Our Lady” is one of Melbourne’s oldest churches and is the second Greek Orthodox Church erected in Australia after “The Church of Holy Trinity” in Sydney.
The first volume of the minutes of the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne and Victoria (GOCMV) makes detailed reference to the endeavors of the then members to collect the required funds to purchase the parcel of land in East Melbourne and to construct the church.
In its infancy the church operated in a school hall that the Community hired at Chalmers Church Hall in Gipps St, East Melbourne. The first official priest was father Athanasios Kantopoulos, who arrived in Melbourne with his family on June 22, 1898 after a request from the Greek Community to the Patriarch of Jerusalem Damianos for a priest to be sent to Melbourne to serve the religious needs of its Orthodox residents.
The Divine Liturgy in English scheduled for Thursday, December 3, at 6:15 pm will be performed by the newly appointed priest Father Kosmas.
For more information parishioners can contact Fr. Kosmas (Telephone: 0433 010 542)
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