New Zealand Orthodox Church

St. Dionysius Indian Orthodox Church, Auckland, New Zealand - Under Chennai Diocese

Rev. Fr. Varghese Philip Idichandy is the Vicar of this Parish

Address : St. Stephen's House, Auckland. Phone: 09 3039500 Xtn. 298 E-mail: vpidichandy@yahoo.com

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The Indian (Malankara) Orthodox Church in New Zealand
New Zealand, started attracting our members towards the turn of the last century. The first known Indian Orthodox family came to live in New Zealand in 1982. Most of our members here migrated in the last 5 years. Now we have members all over NZ, the majority in Auckland; a few families live in Wellington, Palmerston North and Hamilton.

We started as a prayer group in March 2001, in Auckland. Gradually the group grew in numbers and desired to become a worshipping community. In the meanwhile, His Grace Dr. Yakob Mar Irenius, Diocesan Metropolitan of Madras (Chennai), came to know about this community and gave encouragement by sending Rev. Fr. M.D Varghese, Vicar of our Melbourne St. Mary's Church to New Zealand on 27th March'03. He conducted our first Holy Qurbana on 29th March'03, at The St.Albans, Balmoral, Auckland. In the meeting that followed for setting up a parish, the community chose the name of the blessed Vattasseril Geevarghese Mar Dionysius, as our patron saint, thus being the First parish in Madras Diocese dedicated to St. Dionysius. On 7th May'03 St. Dionysius Indian Orthodox Church was incorporated in New Zealand. Our church is a Guest Member of the Conference of Churches Aoetara, New Zealand. Rev Fr Joseph Zachariah led us the 2003 Holy Week celebrations. Later, we were blessed with the visits of H.G Dr Abraham Mar Severios from 15/5/03 to 30/5/03, our Diocesan Metropolitan H.G Dr Yakob Mar Irenius from 9/8/03 to 15/8/03 and Rev. Fr. Thomas Varghese of our Sydney Parish from 21/8/03 to 23/8/03. We are grateful to all our ecclesiastical dignitaries for their visits and encouragements.
We welcome the participation of all like-minded in the Church activities.

Registered Office : 280 Richardson Road, Mt. Roskill, Auckland, New Zealand, Phone: 09 6271236.

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