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The ‘Ballarat Orthodox Group’ has been meeting together under the spiritual guidance of the Rev. Fr. Igor Filianovsky (Moscow Patriarchate) since October 2007.
The Group consists of both Orthodox Christians and Inquirers into the faith from various cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Services are predominately celebrated in English, although some Russian is included.
Services occur on the 4th Saturday of the month, when Fr Igor is available, and until recently were held at St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, 116 Humffray St North, BALLARAT (click to see Google Map)
From May 2023, the services were relocated to the St Sava Serbian Monastery, Elaine (Google Map link here)
On Saturday June 23rd, 2012, after Divine Liturgy and a Moleben to the Theotokos, Fr Igor announced the ‘Holy Prophet John the Baptist and Forerunner‘ to be the Community’s patron saint, from a group of submitted names. As a result, the name of the Ballarat Orthodox Group was changed to “‘Holy Prophet John the Baptist and Forerunner’ Ballarat Orthodox Community”
The feast day of the community will be the “Nativity of Holy John the Baptist and Forerunner” (June 24th/ July 7th)
Further inquiries can be made by contacting Spiro via email:
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