{"id":323899,"date":"2021-06-30T15:31:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T12:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=323899"},"modified":"2021-06-30T17:37:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:37:54","slug":"in-pictures-romanians-in-melbourne-were-first-to-celebrate-feast-of-holy-apostles-peter-and-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/in-pictures-romanians-in-melbourne-were-first-to-celebrate-feast-of-holy-apostles-peter-and-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"In pictures: Romanians in Melbourne were first to celebrate the feast of Holy Apostles Peter and Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As the day starts &#8220;earlier&#8221; in Australia due to its time zone, Romanians from this country were the first in the Romanian Diaspora to celebrate the feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_323736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-323736\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-323736 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-29-at-10.17.14-890x668.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"668\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-323736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bishop Mihail of Australia and New Zealand officiated on Tuesday the Divine Liturgy for the patronal feast of the Diocesan Cathedral in Melbourne. On the same day, the hierarch also celebrated 13 years since his appointment on the diocesan throne. Photo: Diocese of Australia and New Zealand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_284186\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-284186\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-284186 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Biserica-Ortodoxa-Romana-Sfintii-Petru-si-Pavel-Melbourne-890x593.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"593\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-284186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The church of the Romanians was built by the Catholic Church between 1865 and 1867. Photo: Google StreetView<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_323732\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-323732\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-323732 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-29-at-10.17.13-890x668.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"668\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-323732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Since 1972, it became the church of the &#8220;Holy Apostles Peter and Paul&#8221; Romanian Parish. The church was bought by the Romanians in 1982. Photo: Diocese of Australia and New Zealand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_323726\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-323726\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-323726 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-29-at-10.17.161-890x668.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"668\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-323726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Romanian Patriarchate offered the cathedral, \u00een 1991, an oak iconostasis, icons, candles and furniture. Photo: Diocese of Australia and New Zealand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_323730\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-323730\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-323730 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2021-06-29-at-10.17.15-890x668.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"668\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-323730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The interior painting and the mosaics representing the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul on the fa\u00e7ade were made in 1984-1985 by painter Gheorghe R\u0103ducanu. Photo: Diocese of Australia and New Zealand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The worship place has been recently restored and it was reconsecrated on July 1st, 2018, when it was also given a new patron: Holy Hierarch Andrei \u0218aguna, because there are many faithful from Transylvania in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Holy Hierarch Andrei \u0218aguna will also be one of the patrons of the first monastery built by the Orthodox Romanians in the Southern Hemisphere &#8211; at <a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/diocese-of-australia-new-zealand-builds-first-romanian-orthodox-monastery-in-southern-hemisphere\/\">Melton<\/a>, in the Australian state of Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Diocese of Australia and New Zealand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the day starts &#8220;earlier&#8221; in Australia due to its time zone, Romanians from this country were the first in the Romanian Diaspora to celebrate the feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. 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