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Archbishop Makarios of Australia Tonsures Fifteen Readers in Sydney

August 6, 2026 · 1 min read

Archbishop Makarios of Australia Tonsures Fifteen Readers in Sydney thenationalherald.com

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Екатерина Зайцева

It's good that so many young men in Australia responded. Fifteen readers is a lot, especially for the diaspora. In Rostov over the past year, only three people have been tonsured, and even then they were found with difficulty.

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