News & Events

8 August 2025

Celebrating Nicaea - One-Day Seminar On Saturday 2nd August 2025, St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College presented a one-day seminar on the topic “Celebrating Nicaea” as part of its Adult Faith Education initiative proposed at a recent Council meeting with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, the...

22 July 2025

Invitation - One-Day Seminar A One-Day Seminar Organized by St Andrew’s Theological College and hosted at the Church of St Ioannis at Parramatta. Saturday 2 August 2025 1700th anniversary since the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in 325AD. “We believe...” — but do we know what we believe? The...

28 June 2025

St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College represented at the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature The 2025 International Meeting, an annual event of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), this year was held in collaboration with the European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS) at Uppsala University, Sweden on June 23-27. SBL was founded in 1880 as the Society of Biblical Literature and...

28 June 2025

Conference Presentation by Dr Lydia Gore-Jones at the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature Dr Lydia Gore-Jones, Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies, represented St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College at this year’s International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, held in Uppsala, Sweden, June 23 to 27, 2025. She presented two papers, one in the Mariological Discourses...

24 June 2025

Lecture by the Very Revd Anastasios Bozikis, Lecturer in Church History On Monday evening 23rd June 2025, our Church History Lecturer, Father Anastasios Bozikis presented a talk entitled ‘Ministry in the Orthodox Church’ to the youth group at Archangel Michael Parish, Crows Nest. He traced the development of the three-fold ministry of bishop – priest – deacon in...

21 June 2025

Public Lecture On Friday 20th June 2025, Assoc. Prof. Philip Kariatlis, Sub-Dean presented a talk at the Church of Sts Raphael, Nicholas and Irene at Liverpool (Sydney) to the young adults’ group entitled: “A Joy Beyond Measure: the Church as our Entrance into Eternity”. The talk explored the Church as the...

20 June 2025

Sydney College of Divinity renamed as the Australian University College of Divinity One of Australia’s largest theological education providers, of which St Andrew’s Theological College has been a member institution since its own establishment in 1986, has officially changed its name from the Sydney College of Divinity (SCD) to the Australian University College of Divinity (AUCD),...

16 June 2025

International Conference on Orthodox Church Music At the eleventh International Conference on Orthodox Church Music, which explored the theme of eternity in the liturgical arts, Dr Andrew Mellas presented a paper titled Between Mortality and Eternity: Songs of Sorrow and Hope at Chora Monastery. The conference took place at the University of...

13 June 2025

Student Formation Program On Friday morning, 6 June 2025, His Grace Bishop Iakovos of Miletoupolis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of St George, Yellow Rock, served the Paraklesis Service in the College Chapel and then addressed the Bachelor of Theology students as part of their Formation program. His Grace’s reflections...

13 June 2025

Nicaea and the Church of the Third Millennium Our Faculty Member, Dr Andrew Mellas, recently participated in the International Conference, ‘Nicaea and the Church of the Third Millennium: Towards Catholic–Orthodox Unity’ (Rome, 4-7 June 2025), which was convened by the International Orthodox Theological Association. The theme of the conference...