page_title: Yallourn North, Victoria
section_title: Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Parish and church community
hierarchical_section_title: Yallourn North, Victoria / Places of worship / Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Parish and church community
caption_attribution_description: English: The Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church as it stands today - Sept 2012
context_page_description: Yallourn North is a small country town in the City of Latrobe, Victoria, Australia. It is approximately eight kilometres north-east of Moe, and 146 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. Prior to 1947 Yallourn North was known as "Brown Coal Mine".
  The Post Office opened on 3 September 1917 as Brown Coal Mine and was renamed Yallourn North in 1947.
  This tiny hilltop town contains many churches, including the only Serbian Orthodox Church and Mosque in the region. Sports available are Australian rules football, cricket, lawn bowls and carpet bowls, netball and angling. There is a Social Golf Club, and pistol club. The town has an Australian Rules football team, Yallourn-Yallourn North, which competes in the Mid Gippsland Football League.
context_section_description: In 1950 a number of Orthodox Serbs came to live in Yallourn and soon wished to establish a Serbian Orthodox Church. On 8 June 1952 the Serbs of Yallourn and surrounding towns convened a general meeting at which the decision was made to establish a church and parish. The following year, Father Theodore Demjanjuk, a Russian by background, was appointed as the first parish priest, and services were initially held in the Anglican church. In 1957 land was obtained from the SECV for the building of the new church on North Road. Consequently, the church hall was built and consecrated in 1975 by Bishop Dimitrije. It has since been widened so that it can hold about 250 people.
  After Father Theodore, numerous priests served in the parish, while currently the parish priest is Father Milan Milutinovic who holds monthly services. It is the only Serbian Orthodox church in the region.
caption: The Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church today, September 2012
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