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St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco

Saturday 4th July is the feast day of St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco. St. John was renowned for his ascetic labours in China, America, and Europe, so we consider him our own saint. The saint worked extensively to develop local churches. For example, while in Western Europe, he discovered many Orthodox saints who were not listed in our calendar. Many French people converted to Orthodoxy through him, and for them, he translated the liturgy into French. We will be serving the Liturgy in English on this day, and therefore it is especially important that everyone who understands Russian poorly or not at all attend. After liturgy - piroshki and dessert sale.
From 17th to 21st December of this year, the Teen Retreat will be held in Sydney. At the last meeting of our parish council, it was decided to provide a scholarship to each teenager from our parish who attends this retreat. For a recommendation for the retreat and scholarship, please contact Father Yaroslav.
The next services will be held in our church on:
Friday 3rd July at 6:00 PM: Vigil.
Saturday 4th July at 8:30 AM: Liturgy (in English).
At 6:00 PM: Vigil.
Sunday, July 5th at 8:30 AM: Liturgy.
Monday 6th July at 6:00 PM: Vigil.
Tuesday 7th July at 8:30 AM: Liturgy – Nativity of st. John the Baptist.

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Parish clergy:

Archpriest Yaroslav Belikov - Rector.
Archdeacon Vasily Kozulin.

Parish economy

The warden, the responsible person for the economy of the entire parish is James Tobolov. He is directly assisted by members of the parish council, as well as many parishioners.

Sisterhood

Monitors the cleanliness and decorum of the church and on the territory of the church, organizes various events to maintain our traditions, raises funds for the parish. Organizes dinners and funeral wakes. Our Senior Sister Tatyana Pye heads the sisterhood.

Jurisdiction

Our parish is a part of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia,
and is in the Australian and New Zealand Diocese,
in the deanery of the state of Victoria.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church
is His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'.

His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas,
is the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.

The Diocesan Bishop is Archbishop George.

The Dean of the state of Victoria is Archpriest Mikhail Protopopov.

In a legal sense, our parish is governed
by the Normal Parish By-laws of the ROCOR.
According to the by-laws, the Rector is appointed
by the Diocesan Bishop;
the Warden is elected at the AGM of the parish for three years;
members of the parish council are elected for one year at the AGM.
The Sisterhood is governed by the Regulations on Church Sisterhoods;
the Senior Sister and the Sisterhood Board are elected
at the Annual Meeting of the Sisterhood.
All parish officials are approved by the Diocesan Bishop
and work on a voluntary basis.