News & Events

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...

24 March 2025

Residential Student Formation Program As part of the Formation Program, first year Bachelor of Theology students had the opportunity to visit St Basil’s Homes in Randwick on Friday morning, 21 March 2025. On behalf of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios, they were received by His Grace Bishop Iakovos of Miletoupolis, the Chaplain of St...

17 March 2025

Ordination On Sunday 16 March, the Sunday of St Gregory Palamas, College Masters student Clovus Haddad was ordained to the holy diaconate by His Eminence Metropolitan Basilios of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines, in St George Cathedral (Thornbury, VIC). Upon...

3 March 2025

Graduation Doxology for St Andrew’s Theological College in Sydney On Friday, 28 February, at the Cathedral of the Annunciation of Our Lady in Sydney, a Doxology Service was celebrated by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, upon the graduation of the students of Saint Andrew’s Theological College. During the moving service, the Archbishop also...

27 February 2025

Opening Doxology for St Andrew's Theological College Sydney On Wednesday, 26 February, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, officiated at the Doxology Service for the beginning of the new academic year at Saint Andrew’s Theological College in Sydney. As this Service marked the 40th year of the Theological College, which is the pride and...