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We are not very happy to see them leaving the Middle East, where all our churches started, and where in fact Christianity started. But we are happy for them if they are happy and find here a blessed country in which they are happy to live. — PERTH, WA: JANUARY 22-28, 1981 TELEPHONE: (09) 328 1388
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EMINENT VISITOR The highest ranking Catholic prelate ever to visit Perth celebrated Mass in Arabic at Queen of Martyrs church, Maylands and in St. Mary's Cathedral.
As a patriarch of the from the Middle East sad- they find here a blessed M elkite Cathol ic dens the 72-year-old patri- country in which they are church, His Beatitude arch, but he is happy to see happy to live. we want doing so well in "This is what Maximos V Hakim, them them to be — faithful to Australia. over precedence takes "The situation in the Mid- their mother country, but cardinals, the highest dle East, this Lebanese war certainly to the new counranking in the West- for six years, the troubles try of theirs, which is now ern Catholic Church. in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, the Australia." S ubject to the war between Iran and Iraq During his Perth visit the authority of the pope, — all these troubles push patriarch paid courtesy patriarchs are entitled our people outside," he visits not only to the Ukranian Catholic Church to appoint the bishops said. Maylands but also to the in see to happy not are "We over churches in their them leaving the Middle Greek and Coptic Orthojurisdiction. East, where all our dox churches both of
P atriarch Maximos Churches started, and were whom sent priests to heads the approximately in fact Christianity started. attend the patriarch's Mass one million Catholics and "But we are happy for in Maylands. 400 priests in the Melkite them if they are happy and (See page 3) rite around the world. Patriarch Maximos today lives in his native city of Cario where he was born to Syrian parents. He was ordained priest in 1930. In 1943 he was appointed a bishop in the Palestine region, Nazareth being one of his dioceses before he ws elected Melkite patriarch in 1967. The Melkite population has grown to an estimated 20,000 in Australia as a result of migration from the Middle East. There are some 6,000 Melkites in Melbourne and in Perth some 100 families of the rite are visited occasionally by a Melkite priest. Patriarch Maximos said that it was hoped to appoint soon a Mellcite bishop in Australia. There already have been Melkite bishops appointed in the ALSO NEW United States, Brazil and HONDA most recently in Canada. A VAILABLE AT If there was sufficient RIVERTON Ph: 457 1977 growth in Australia then there would be a bishop, but the decision would not be his, the patriarch said. "We are not alone in this; in this we must cooperate MALIN with the Holy See who HOLDEN must approve.exactly what we want to do. "When I last spoke to the Pope, he said, 'I know very well your problems; they are exactly like our problems with the immigrants from Poland. We will 1308 Albany Highway, Cannington cooperate and help you'." Perth Side Carousel 1Th: 451 2333, A/h 45-7 4413 The loss of his people
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During Mass in Queen of Martyrs church Maylands, Patriarch Maximos V Hakim incenses the congregation.