Graduation of Elder Dimitrios Giamaios of the Holy Archdiocese of Australiatranslated

The Holy Archdiocese of Australia, after deep emotion and human sorrow, announces the excommunication of Elder Dimitrios Giamaios, who fell asleep on Thursday, October 29, 2026. The blessed cleric was born on the holy island of Revelation, Patmos, in the year 1947. His heart, from a young age, had he was overcome by love for Christ and the Church and was distinguished for his profound and profound piety. After settling in Australia, he responded to the call to the priesthood and was ordained an Elder on October 3, 1993. Since then, he devoted himself entirely to the ministry of the Holy Altar and served with holy zeal the pastoral needs of the Orthodox faithful of the New South Wales region, in the wider CentralWest region.

For more than two decades, until 2016, having as his "springboard" the Holy Church of Panagia Myrtidiotissa, in the city of Dubbo, he traveled even to the most remote and inaccessible areas of the State (Moree, Bourke, Oberon, Collarenebri, Brewarrina, GlenInnes, Cowra, Orange, Bathurst, Katoomba, Lithgow, etc.), to perform the Holy Mysteries of Church and to support them spiritually there...