Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of Australia and New Zealand

The Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of Australia and New Zealand is a diocese of the Church of Romania. Bishop Mihail is the inaugural ruling bishop for the diocese, and was enthroned on June 29 2008.
==History==
The first Romanian Orthodox parish in Australasia was founded in 1972, but it was not until much later that there was any organisation of the parishes, with each parish directly responsible to a member of the Holy Synod that was responsible for Romanian Orthodox in the diaspora.
In 2006, Fr Dumitru Coman, a parish priest in Melbourne, was made the Vicar of the Romanian Orthodox Vicariate of Australia and New Zealand, and in 2008, the Diocese of Australia and New Zealand was founded with the election on March 5 of Archimandrite Mihail (Filimon) as the first ruling bishop.
==Organisation==
The Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of Australia and New Zealand is a single diocese with twelve churches - two each in Melbourne and Sydney, and one each in Adelaide, Brisbane, Bayswater, Geelong, Dandenong, Perth, Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch.
==Episcopacy==
*Mihail (Filimon), Bishop of Australia and New Zealand, Mar 2008-present.
==See also==
*:Template:Parishes of Australasia and Oceania
*Church of Romania
==External links==
*Official Website of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of Australia and New Zealand
*Official Website of the Patriarchate of Romania
*Enthronement of Right Rev. Mihail, the first Bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of Australia and New Zealand
Category:Dioceses
Category:Jurisdictions
Category:Orthodoxy in Australia
Category:Orthodoxy in New Zealand
Category:Romanian Dioceses