Holy Cross Russian Orthodox Church - Hobart Tasmania

Holy Cross Russian Orthodox Church - Hobart Tasmania Holy Cross is Hobart 's English language Orthodox Church, 3 Augusta Rd Sat 5pm Sunday 9.30 am Hobart has one Parish of the Russian Orthodox Church.

We are a welcoming Orthodox community. Our temple is the first Orthodox church in Tasmania, and today it is home to a vibrant multicultural congregation worshipping primarily in English, with Serbs, Russians, Australians, Greeks, Macedonians and Orthodox Ethiopian families. Our parish serves beyond Hobart,, with pastoral care, weddings and funerals in the north and northwest of Tasmania. We have

communicants from all around Tasmania, and our mission is to serve and support Orthodox Christians in Tasmania and to share Orthodox Christianity. Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco said that the Russian Church Abroad was scattered across the globe to share the light of Orthodoxy, and we seek to nurture those who see the grace and life of Orthodoxy

His Eminence Metropolitan Nicholas is our new First Hierarch, following the desth of Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral) of blessed memory. His Grace Bishop George is Bishop of Australia & New Zealand. Our Dean is the Very Reverend Dr. Michael Protopopov AM, who served as Rector from 1973- 1994 and from 2001 to 2021. Tasmania's only English language Orthodox Church is the Russian Orthodox temple dedicated to the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. It is part of the southern Deanery of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad(ROCOR). Built in the post-war emigration, this church was where Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian and Greek emigres worshipped in Hobart. Orthodox Christians from all backgrounds contributed to building our domed church. The parish's founding priest, Mitred Archpriest Theodore Borishkevich served from 1949 until his death in 1972. Services:
Saturdays 1700 (5:00 pm)9th Hour and Vespers. Sundays 0900 (9:00 am) Hours and Liturgy
Wednesday 1700 (5.00pm) Akathist

Other services as announced. Confessions after Vespers and during the Hours for those unable to come the evening before. Please contact regarding memorial services (pannikhida) both in church and at cemeteries and all pastoral care. Our Church Warden is Subdcn. John Simons, and Head Sister Mara Ivcovic.

We remember Saint Boniface of Mainz.
17/06/2026

We remember Saint Boniface of Mainz.

16/06/2026

Vespers at 5.00 on Saturday, Hours and Liturgy at 9.30 on Sunday. Fr John will hear confessions after Vespers, during the Hours and at other times by appointment.

We remember Saints Mary and Martha.
16/06/2026

We remember Saints Mary and Martha.

We remember Saint Clotilde, Queen of France.
15/06/2026

We remember Saint Clotilde, Queen of France.

We remember Saint Demetrios of Philadelphia, martyred in 1657.
14/06/2026

We remember Saint Demetrios of Philadelphia, martyred in 1657.

Hours and Liturgy for All the Saints of Russia today at 9.30.
13/06/2026

Hours and Liturgy for All the Saints of Russia today at 9.30.

We remember Saint Justin Martyr.
13/06/2026

We remember Saint Justin Martyr.

12/06/2026

Vespers tonight at 5.00.

We remember Saint Hermas of the Seventy.
12/06/2026

We remember Saint Hermas of the Seventy.

We remember Saint Walstan of Bawburgh.
11/06/2026

We remember Saint Walstan of Bawburgh.

Address

3 Augusta Road
North Hobart, TAS
7008

Opening Hours

Saturday 5:30pm - 6:45pm
Sunday 8:30am - 5pm

Telephone

+61419948465

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