Following the Clayton Community, St Albans Community, seems ready to come under the juristiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and, by extension, of the Archdiocese of Australia.
However, the final decision will be taken by the members of the Community at an extraordinary general meeting soon to be held.
The General Assembly of the community of Agia Paraskevi will take place on Sunday, and the ecclesiastical issue of the community and the Holy Archdiocese will be raised for the first time and if necessary, an extraordinary general meeting will be held on the subject.
Archbishop Makarios of Australia, who is in Melbourne this week, met on Wednesday with representatives of St Albans Community of Aghia Paraskevi to discuss the ecclesiastical issue that has been of concern to the community for 30 years.
According to Community circles a meeting was held in a particularly good climate and the Archbishop wished to go and perform a Divine Liturgy in St. Paraskevi soon.
The conditions for St Albans Community to join the Archdiocese are the same as those for the Clayton Community.
That is, the title of the church of Agia Paraskevi should be written in the trust of the Archdiocese, but the community will retain its autonomy and all its other assets.
The Community asked to retain its title, something that the Archbishop allegedly accepted.
The Community also asked the recognition of the three community clergymen “even if two of them still need to be ordained”.
St Albans Community has stated that it has ceased any ecclesiastical contact with the Adelaide Community and is not subject to any other ecclesiastical authority.
St Albans Community President Elias Dimitrakopoulos thanked the Archbishop for meeting him and his associates and for his good intentions in order to have a good end and to start a good cooperation of his organization with the Archdiocese.
Source: neoskosmos.com
