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Introduction

Welcome to the website of the St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Canberra. The cathedral parish is part of the Australian Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church (Abroad). We hope that your visit will be of benefit.

The dean of the cathedral is Archpriest Alexander Morozow.

For general enquiries please email enquiry@stjohnthebaptist.org.au. For information and enquiries about hiring the parish hall, please see the contact page.

Our parish website also has web pages in Russian with different content.

Updates Related to COVID-19

We are pleased to advise worshipers at our church that the introduction of the Check in CBR application for which we have been registered now allows us to have up to 50 attendees at services. This relaxation of restrictions is conditional on those attending initially downloading the app onto their phones and then checking in their attendance at the candle stall each time they come to a service. Please be aware that for those worshipers who cannot sign in electronically themselves, the candle stall duty staff will need to do this on your behalf using their own phones.

This means that for normal Sunday services, people wishing to attend are no longer required to advise me of their intention beforehand. However, if for some reason we look like exceeding our capacity limit on a particular day, please be aware that you may be asked to wait outside the church until we can accommodate you.

Father Alexander

To help us through this period, we ask you to consider a regular monthly financial contribution to our parish. Contributions directly into our parish bank account is the easiest way to make your donation. Our bank account details are as follows:

BSB: 032719
Account: 602930

Other updates for the parish community and communications from the parish clergy will be published here. Please check back regularly.

Schedule of Upcoming Services

Saturday, 17 April	5:00 pm	All Night Vigil	Fifth Sunday of Great Lent Venerable Mary of Egypt
Sunday, 18 April	9:00 am	Divine Liturgy
Wednesday, 21 April	6:00 pm	Holy Unction Anointing with oils	Holy Unction
Friday, 23 April	6:00 pm	Matins	Lazarus Saturday
Saturday, 24 April	9:00 am	Divine Liturgy
	5:00 pm	All Night Vigil	Palm Sunday The Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem
Sunday, 25 April	9:00 am	Divine Liturgy
Monday, 26 April	6:00 pm	Great Compline	Great and Holy Tuesday
Tuesday, 27 April	6:00 pm	Great Compline	Great and Holy Wednesday
Wednesday, 28 April	6:00 pm	Matins	Great and Holy Thursday
Thursday, 29 April	6:00 pm	Matins Reading of the 12 Passion Gospels	Great and Holy Friday
Friday, 30 April	3:00 pm	Vespers Christ’s body taken down from the Cross
	6:00 pm	Matins Burial of Jesus Christ	Great and Holy Saturday
Saturday, 1 May	9:30 am	Vesperal Divine Liturgy Christ resting in the Grave
	11:00 pm	Blessing of Easter fare (kulitchi, paskha, eggs) at the Community hall
	11:25 pm	Midnight Office Return Of Christ’s Shroud to the Altar
Sunday, 2 May	12:00 am	Paschal Matins and Liturgy	Pascha The Radiant Resurrection of Christ
Monday, 3 May	9:00 am	Divine Liturgy	Bright Monday
Saturday, 8 May	5:00 pm	All Night Vigil	Second Sunday of Pascha St. Thomas Sunday - Requiems at cemetеries
Sunday, 9 May	9:00 am	Divine Liturgy
Saturday, 15 May	5:00 pm	All Night Vigil	Third Sunday of Pascha The Myrrh-bearing Women
Sunday, 16 May	9:00 am	Divine Liturgy

Services

Visitors are always welcome at our services. The All Night Vigil is celebrated beginning at 5 PM on Saturday evenings and the Divine Liturgy at 9 AM on Sunday mornings. Confessions are heard during the Vigil service. The principal language of the services is Church Slavonic. Some English is used in the Divine Liturgies and usually somewhat more during the All Night Vigils. The parish church is located at:

1 Matina St
Narrabundah ACT 2604 (map)

For updates to the service schedule and other parish events, follow us (@stjohn_baptist) on Twitter or on Facebook.

Parish Life

Details of the ministries provided by Fatih&Wisdom Ministries are now available on the other ministries page.

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