tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21560670012947954342024-03-13T12:37:30.833+11:00Bishop Suriel's BlogBishop Anba Surielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18022436193895073743noreply@blogger.comBlogger140125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156067001294795434.post-16624194274344206962013-12-12T13:30:00.000+11:002013-12-12T13:57:04.252+11:00<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Our iconographer Ashraf Fayek has finalised the outline of the official icon of St. Archdeacon Habib Girgis today. It is now in the process of the placing of the gold leafing. That's a very exciting project and I am looking forward to the finished product! One of two originals will be presented to His Holiness Pope Tawadros II on 14 January at the </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Patriarchate in Cairo, Egypt. The second original will be displayed at the Diocese of Melbourne Headquarters as a source of blessing and inspiration.<br /><br />There will be a limited special edition of this icon available after the originals are completed. It you are interested to purchase one of these special editions a webpage will be available soon to register your interest.<br /><br />Our Theological College in Melbourne which is a College of The University of Divinity is in need of your financial support in order for it to expand and continue to offer more academic awards in the future and to expand our library and faculty. I hope that this small project of this unique icon, that has great significance for us will raise awareness of the unique and vital work of<a data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=239753839419921&extragetparams=%7B%22directed_target_id%22%3A0%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/SACOTC" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">St. Athanasius Coptic Orthodox Theological College</a>.<br /><br />More to come soon.<br /><br />May God bless.</span></div>
Bishop Anba Surielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18022436193895073743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156067001294795434.post-29427603750085002242013-02-05T00:48:00.002+11:002013-02-06T02:45:55.665+11:00Introducing Eporo Tower<div mce_style="text-align: justify; " style="text-align: justify;">
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Located in the heart of Melbourne, Eporo Tower will attract a vibrant new community to our neighbourhood. Designed by acclaimed architects Buchan Group the building will be a stunning, contemporary blade rising towards the clouds. With sweeping curves and a shimmering glass facade the building is a spectacular monument that all in the Church will truly be proud of.<br />
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In the base of the building our stunning new Church will be located, combining cutting edge facilities with meticulous, traditional Coptic finishes. In the upper levels modern one and two bedroom apartments will offer a selection of stunning bay, city and garden views.<br />
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For a limited time, apartments are being offered exclusively to friends of the Church, ensuring those closest to the development can secure their desired location.<br />
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The launch of Eporo Tower Project will take place at 2 pm on Sunday 17 February, 2013.<br />
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Place: 279 La Trobe St. Melbourne.<br />
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Hope to see you all there for this historic occasion in the life of our Diocese. May God bless this work for the Glory of His Holy Name.<br />
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See http://eporotower.com.au/ for more information.<br />
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<br />Bishop Anba Surielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18022436193895073743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156067001294795434.post-60022319746254367482012-12-31T12:12:00.002+11:002012-12-31T12:12:41.431+11:00Libya Coptic church blast kills two EgyptiansSuch a sad way for Copts to end 2012. May the Lord repose the souls of our latest two martyrs and give comfort to their families and loved ones.<br />
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Bishop Anba Surielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18022436193895073743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156067001294795434.post-74663643032019441702012-04-14T18:38:00.000+10:002012-04-14T18:38:14.917+10:00Feast of the Resurrection 2012<div style="text-align: center;">Feast of Resurrection<br />
15 April 2012<br />
His Grace Bishop Suriel<br />
Bishop of Melbourne and Affiliated Regions<br />
Christ’s Resurrection Guides us to Eternal Life</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">7th January 2012</div><div style="text-align: center;">His Grace Bishop Suriel<br />
Bishop of Melbourne and Affiliated Regions</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT !!!<br />
First Coptic Orthodox Theological College to be accredited in the modern world!<br />
It is with great delight that I can announce St Athanasius Coptic Orthodox Theological College has been accredited as a recognised teaching institution (RTI) of the MCD University of Divinity!<br />
This is a wonderful achievement for our Theological College which was established through Papal Decree number 21/29 just under 11 years ago and is the culmination of several years of hard work by many dedicated individuals.<br />
Through the tireless work of the SACOTC Academic Board and Council, SACOTC embarked on a journey of nearly four years to achieve this endorsement, and realise the aspirations of the College community to become a recognised teaching institution of the MCD University of Divinity.<br />
This recognition means SACOTC is officially the first Coptic Orthodox Theological College to be accredited in the modern world! More importantly, we have been accredited through an organisation who just recently in their own right were approved to become the first 'Specialist University' in Australia!<br />
To be recognised as one of the member teaching institution of the MCD University of Divinity will add significant credibility to SACOTC, giving our awards wide recognition and allowing our students to go on and do further theological studies to obtain Masters and PhD's if they wish. <br />
The MCD is an old and very well respected academic teaching body, having celebrated its centenary in 2010. Since its inception, it has been committed to providing Theological education, and represents the standard by which theological education in Australia is judged. <br />
In its own right, SACOTC is an important Orthodox Theological institution that is dedicated to promoting the traditions of the Coptic Orthodox School of Alexandria and in many ways is unique to Australia. <br />
SACOTC has much to offer in the field of theological education in Australia, and this official recognition now allows us to offer interested students the opportunity to study and appreciate theology from a Coptic Orthodox point of view and undertake units of study that are unique in their rich Christian heritage. SACOTC is blessed to have an extremely well qualified and dedicated faculty, who have inspired their students through their own example, and instilled in them a love for learning about theology and divinity. <br />
We are thrilled about this very significant achievement, as this marks the beginning of an exciting new phase for SACOTC. We will begin by offering a Diploma in Theology in 2012, online courses in 2013 and in the future expand to offer higher awards such as Bachelors, Masters and even PhD's God willing. <br />
Our newly accredited Diploma in Theology will begin on February 27th, 2012 with God's grace. Semester 1 timetable, and dates for the Open Day and Orientation day will be published in Epsajee in the coming weeks.Bishop Anba Surielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18022436193895073743noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156067001294795434.post-72639575444202305772011-11-05T22:32:00.000+11:002011-11-15T18:08:15.000+11:00Vigil 4 Peace<div style="text-align: center;"><b>4 November, 2011</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Federation Square, Melbourne</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>commemoration of the Coptic Martyrs of Maspero</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>9 October, 2011</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/thedrum/greg-wilesmith/3613296" target="_self" title=""><i>Greg Wilesmith</i></a><i> is a Foreign Correspondent producer and former ABC Middle East Correspondent.</i><br />
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<div class="first" style="text-align: justify;">Nothing can be preparation for the experience of entering a room of wailing, shrieking people desperate to display the source of their grief; of literally being pulled through a heaving crowd towards the refrigerated cabinets in the corner of the room, of trays pulled out and seeing bloodied bodies within.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And then being urged to film yet more bodies on the floor, some lying alone, others arranged head to toe with placards of Christ laid on their chests. Some faces were grotesquely distorted; others seemed extraordinarily calm and untouched. One man held up two bullets as if to confirm what had caused the killing. Against a wall a man was standing, weeping, his face smeared with blood. He bent to kiss one of the dead and the source of the blood became obvious.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We counted 17 bodies while the noise of an ever-growing mob trying to enter the morgue grew more deafening. It was a claustrophic hell; the urge to get out was powerful.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The rest of the hospital was gripped by pandemonium: stretcher bearers running in corridors, patients flung into unoccupied beds, doctors and nurses overwhelmed by the needs of the wounded and the clamour of family and friends.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We witnessed this horror, Ben Knight, Geoffrey Lye, Youssef Taha and I, at the Coptic Hospital in Cairo earlier this month while filming a report for Foreign Correspondent on what has happened to Egypt since the February revolution.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was a Sunday night and what had started as a peaceful march by Coptic Christians, and some Muslim allies, on the Maspero, the government television building, had spiralled into a confrontation with thugs, riot police and soldiers. It was the worst violence since the revolution and a prime marker of how the revolution has failed the people.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We'd been contemplating a quiet night at our hotel half a kilometre away down the Nile. Then sirens blared across the city and media began reporting trouble at the TV station. We'd been there just a few nights before, filming a demonstration by Copts who were complaining about the destruction of part of the Mar Girgis (St George) church at Marinab, near Aswan, in southern Egypt – just the latest example, they claimed, of a campaign of sectarian violence by extremist Muslims. The protest had been noisy and the helmeted, black-clad riot police were tensing for action. When a gaggle of senior officers tried to seize Geoff Lye's camera, we made a fast strategic withdrawal.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">So it was with some reluctance that we ventured out, armed this time with a small camera. Clouds of tear gas enveloped the 6th of October Bridge across the Nile. It proved as close as we could get to the battleground outside the television centre. As riot police charged with batons raised, it was time to withdraw once again. Only later that night at the Coptic hospital did the scale of the slaughter become clear. The cause of some of the deaths, according to witnesses, was that armoured personnel carriers had deliberately careered into demonstrators, crushing them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Several days later, two of the generals who have run Egypt since Mubarak's departure called a news conference. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, known as the SCAF, has not earned a reputation for accessibility, let alone transparency, during the better part of nine months governing the country. This rare opening to the media did nothing to enhance the SCAF's reputation, beginning as it did with a patronising lecture about ethics and national unity, followed by a senior officer bellowing at a reporter who had the temerity to ask a question.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The local media invested many hours and learnt very little. The generals claimed the soldiers and riot police were not equipped with "live" ammunition and therefore couldn't have shot and killed anyone; as for the armoured personnel carriers, their drivers had been trying to escape the crowds and had not deliberately crashed into them. Of course there would be an investigation but the SCAF was sure the security forces were blameless. Government radio and television faithfully trotted out the official narrative.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">No real surprise, then, that the SCAF later announced that civilian prosecutors would play no role in the investigation of the Maspero massacre; it would be handled by military prosecutors. No surprise either that the international body, Human Rights Watch (HRW), has raised fears of a cover-up. HRW reports that autopsies carried out on 24 bodies suggest that eight people died of bullet wounds and 13 died of injuries and fractures inflicted by vehicles.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Perhaps the only positive to come from the killings at Maspero is that the SCAF was sufficiently embarrassed by the overreaction and incompetence of the security forces that Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi, Egypt's de facto president, has had several meetings with the leader of the Coptic Church, Pope Shenouda III.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tantawi has reportedly been conciliatory, agreeing that Copts can rebuild the church near Aswan in southern Egypt which was partially burnt down by a Muslim mob. Copts are said to number about 10 per cent of Egypt's 85 million people and have long complained about discrimination by Muslim-dominated governments at a local, city and national level. In particular they've argued that bureaucratic obstacles are frequently put in the way of communities and congregations wanting to extend or build churches. Muslim attacks on Christian communities are rarely investigated by police.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">When Egyptians celebrated the fall of the Mubarak regime in mid-February, many genuinely believed that freedom was at hand and that the army could be relied upon to manage a transition to democracy. There's much less confidence now that the military has the same aspirations as the hundreds of thousands who filled Cairo's Tahrir Square in January and February and at the pro-democracy demonstrations in cities and towns around the country.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nine months ago Foreign Correspondent framed a program on the revolution around a young activist, Salma el Tarzi who, along with her friends, spent 18 days and nights in Tahrir Square defying the might of the state to remove them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The sheer joy of victory the night Mubarak fell was intoxicating, but Salma is deeply sceptical that the military will ultimately hand power to elected parliamentarians and to a president. "I do not expect the revolution to be over soon," she says. "We are cleaning up the mess of the past, not only of 30 years, of the past 60 years and it's not going to happen in nine months."</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2011/s3353342.htm" target="_blank">Visit ABC Website</a></b></div>Bishop Anba Surielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18022436193895073743noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156067001294795434.post-71320748279276551032011-10-29T13:08:00.000+11:002011-10-29T13:08:22.769+11:00Vigil 4 Peace update<div style="text-align: center;">Download Vigil 4 Peace update</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">His Grace Bishop Suriel - Bishop of Melbourne and Affiliated Regions - Was interviewed by Alan Jones (2GB radio) on Tuesday morning 25 th Oct. at 7.40am.<br />
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