NEWS FROM THE DIOCESES
 
DIOCESE OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: December 9, 2005

Archbishop Hilarion Invites Members of the Commission on Discussions with the Moscow Patriarchate and of the Pre-Council Committee to Visit the Diocese of Australia and New Zealand

With the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus, and by invitation of His Eminence Archbishop Hilarion, Mitred Protopriest Alexander Lebedeff, Secretary of the Commission on discussions with the Moscow Patriarchate, and Priest Serafim Gan, member of the Pre-Council Committee preparing the IV All-Diaspora Council, will visit Australia on December 14 to participate in the extraordinary Diocesan Conference and other church meetings in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbaine, to discuss the dialog between the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and the Moscow Patriarchate and the forthcoming Church Council.

The priests will read the Epistle from His Eminence Metropolitan Laurus addressed to the participants of the Diocesan Conference of Australia and New Zealand, report on the work of both ecclesiastical committees and answer questions posed by clergymen and the laity on these matters.