For Lenten almsgiving, consider the following:
Metropolitan Archbishop PAUL of the Antiochian Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand, in announcing the reception of the 6,000 in the Philippines on their website, requested donations to help with things there. He listed a bank account number for wire transfers, but in case those are costly for you internationally, I emailed him about sending a check the old-fashioned way. He says to make it out to “Archbishop Paul Saliba” and mail it addressed as follows:
Archbishop Paul Saliba
2 Brampton Avenue
Illawong NSW 2234
Sydney AUSTRALIA
He says he personally has an account in US dollars, but the Archdiocese does not, so if we send them made out to him personally, he will exchange them.
According to the Archdiocese’s former website, he’s 68 years old, from Lebanon, studied in Greece, and studied and worked here in the States from ‘68-99, including qualifying as an alcohol and drug addiction counselor to help parishioners and other Orthodox in the DC area, where he spent 20 years. According to Orthodoxwiki, the Archdiocese went from 6 parishes in ‘99 to 34 last year, to which we can now add about an equal number in the Philippines!
April 18, 2008 at 2:50 pm
As a Filipino Orthodox I cannot take joy in this historic Philippine event for the simple reason that this Antiochian intrusion to the territorial jurisdiction of Constantinople is is an outright and intentional violation of the Canons {Edited by Moderator}.
April 24, 2008 at 8:08 am
Welcome Gregory!
I’m happy to report it doesn’t seem as bad as all that now. Please see the presbyteral report brought to my attention here.
Sincerely,
Leo Peter