{"id":14124,"date":"2025-02-24T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macedonianorthodoxdiocese.org.au\/?p=14124"},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T10:23:00","slug":"first-liturgy-at-mpco-st-demetrius-of-thessaloniki-in-wollongong-by-the-new-parish-priest-protopresbyter-fr-borislav-lazov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macedonianorthodoxdiocese.org.au\/en\/first-liturgy-at-mpco-st-demetrius-of-thessaloniki-in-wollongong-by-the-new-parish-priest-protopresbyter-fr-borislav-lazov\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRST LITURGY AT MPCO \u201cST. DEMETRIUS OF THESSALONIKI\u201d IN WOLLONGONG BY THE NEW PARISH PRIEST, PROTOPRESBYTER FR. BORISLAV LAZOV"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">To the joy of the entire church community in Wollongong \u2013 Sydney, today, on Meatfare Sunday of the Fearsome Judgment of Christ, when our Holy Orthodox Church commemorates the feast of the Holy Hieromartyr Charalampus, the newly appointed parish priest, Fr. Borislav Lazov, who recently arrived in Australia, served his first Liturgy at the church of \u201cSt. Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessaloniki\u201d in Wollongong.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The previous parish priest, Fr. Tome Mladenovski, introduced the newly arrived parish priest to the faithful, after which Fr. Borislav also addressed the congregation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">On behalf of all church communities within the Australian-Sydney Orthodox Diocese, we extend our best wishes to the newly arrived priest, Fr. Borislav, for a successful missionary ministry in Wollongong.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#foogallery-gallery-14114.fg-justified .fg-item { margin-right: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; }\n#foogallery-gallery-14114.fg-justified .fg-image { height: 200px; }<\/style>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-justified foogallery-lightbox-foogallery fg-justified fg-ready fg-light fg-shadow-outline fg-loading-default fg-loaded-fade-in fg-caption-always fg-hover-fade fg-hover-zoom2\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-14114\" data-foogallery=\"{&quot;item&quot;:{&quot;showCaptionTitle&quot;:true,&quot;showCaptionDescription&quot;:false},&quot;lazy&quot;:true,&quot;template&quot;:{&quot;rowHeight&quot;:200,&quot;maxRowHeight&quot;:300,&quot;margins&quot;:2,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;lastRow&quot;:&quot;smart&quot;}}\" data-foogallery-lightbox=\"{&quot;thumbs&quot;:&quot;bottom&quot;,&quot;thumbsCaptions&quot;:false,&quot;thumbsBestFit&quot;:false,&quot;thumbsSmall&quot;:false,&quot;thumbsCaptionsAlign&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;info&quot;:&quot;bottom&quot;,&quot;infoVisible&quot;:true,&quot;infoOverlay&quot;:true,&quot;infoAlign&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;transition&quot;:&quot;fade&quot;,&quot;hoverButtons&quot;:false,&quot;fitMedia&quot;:false,&quot;noScrollbars&quot;:true,&quot;preserveButtonSpace&quot;:true,&quot;buttons&quot;:{&quot;fullscreen&quot;:true,&quot;info&quot;:true,&quot;thumbs&quot;:false},&quot;video&quot;:{&quot;autoPlay&quot;:true}}\" style=\"--fg-title-line-clamp: 0; 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Borislav Lazov, who recently arrived in Australia, served his first Liturgy at the church of \u201cSt. Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessaloniki\u201d in Wollongong. The previous parish priest, Fr. Tome &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macedonianorthodoxdiocese.org.au\/en\/first-liturgy-at-mpco-st-demetrius-of-thessaloniki-in-wollongong-by-the-new-parish-priest-protopresbyter-fr-borislav-lazov\/\" class=\"more-link\">\u041f\u0440\u043e\u0447\u0438\u0442\u0430\u0458 \u043f\u043e\u0432\u0435\u045c\u0435<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FIRST LITURGY AT MPCO \u201cST. DEMETRIUS OF THESSALONIKI\u201d IN WOLLONGONG BY THE NEW PARISH PRIEST, PROTOPRESBYTER FR. BORISLAV LAZOV&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":14118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macedonianorthodoxdiocese.org.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macedonianorthodoxdiocese.org.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macedonianorthodoxdiocese.org.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macedonianorthodoxdiocese.org.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macedonianorthodoxdiocese.org.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macedonianorthodoxdiocese.org.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14125,"href":"https:\/\/www.macedonianorthodoxdiocese.org.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14124\/revisions\/14125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macedonianorthodoxdiocese.org.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macedonianorthodoxdiocese.org.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macedonianorthodoxdiocese.org.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macedonianorthodoxdiocese.org.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}