News & Events

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),...

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...

4 June 2025

Public Lecture On Thursday 29 May 2025 the Very Rev’d Father Anastasios Bozikis, Church History Lecturer at St Andrew’s, presented a talk to the University of Sydney Orthodox Student Fellowship – SOFIA on the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. The Lecture entitled, “Better the Turkish Turban than the Papal Tiara:...

23 May 2025

Residential Formation Program On Friday morning, 23 May, the Very Rev’d Father Miltiades Chryssavgis, a former lecturer of Byzantine Music and Church History at the College, addressed the first year Bachelor of Theology students as part of their Formation program. He reflected on his nearly 70 years of ministry as a...

20 May 2025

Public Lecture As part of the ‘Byzantine Month’ program at the Resurrection of Christ Church in Kogarah, Father Anastasios Bozikis, Associate Lecturer in Church History at St Andrew’s, offered a lecture on Thursday, 15 May on the legacy of the First Ecumenical Synod in Byzantium. By exploring the political and...

19 May 2025

Residential Formation Program As part of their Formation Program, the first year Bachelor of Theology students visited St Ioannis Church in Parramatta where they were warmly received by the Parish Priest, Fr Dimitri Kokkinos. Father Dimitri led the group in a Paraklesis Service to the Theotokos before giving the students a...

15 May 2025

Public Lecture On 8 May 2025, our Faculty Member, Dr Andrew Mellas, presented a guest lecture as part of the ‘Byzantine Month’ at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Resurrection (Kogarah) on how the hymns of Byzantium portrayed the journey of the Myrrhbearing Women to the Holy Tomb of Christ. Dr Mellas...

8 May 2025

His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia (College President and Dean) conferred with an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Athens For the video recording on YouTube (in Greek only) click [here]. On Wednesday 7 May, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, our esteemed President and Dean was conferred with an honorary doctorate by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (N.K.U.A.). This most auspicious...

5 May 2025

Public Lecture by Sub-Dean On Sunday 4 May 2025, Assoc. Prof. Philip Kariatlis, Sub-Dean of St Andrew’s College presented a lecture at the St James Institute which is an adult educational organisation established in 2007 as part of the ministry of the Parish of St James’ King Street, Sydney (the oldest Anglican Church in...