This year’s Feast of the Holy Spirit was historic for Greek’s of Australia as Archbishop Makarios delivered the ceremony at the Holy Trinity Church in Sydney’s Surry Hills.
He became the first Archbishop after almost half a century to cross the threshold of the oldest Greek Orthodox Church in Australia and the Southern Hemisphere as a whole.
Talking to the SBS Greek Program, Archbishop Makarios noted that he voluntarily and wholeheartedly visited the Holy Temple of the Holy Trinity on his own accord, being aware of the history of the church.
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“Our history is what it is, we cannot change it. And we must put aside the passions and mistakes of the past and move forward,” he said.
Archbishop Makarios also revealed that the Holy Trinity church will be included in the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Holy Archdiocese in 2024.
He said, “I do not divide the flock of the Archdiocese into good and bad, community and parish. We are all the same and we will all give the same speech and the same report during the Second Coming. So I don’t like separating.”
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