SOFIA MQ - Macquarie University Orthodox Christian Fellowship

02/10/2025

Please join us on this Tuesday at 1.30pm for our next SOFIA MQ talk!
Please bring a friend!

06/07/2025

This is a message to all MQ students!!

Could you please take a moment to fill out this form so we can organise a day and time that works best for everyone.

It would be super helpful if you could complete it by Thursday, so we can lock in a time that suits us all once uni starts.

Looking forward to seeing you all soon! 😁👋

Hello everyone! Please fill out the form with your prefered days and times that work for you. You can select multiple days and start times. You can assume that most events will go no longer than 1 hour. Please only fill out the prefered start times for the days you put as your preference. In this wa...

25/06/2025

Exciting news coming soon from SOFIA MQ!!!

14/12/2021

Let's celebrate the end of the exams with some Christmas fun!

12/12/2021

08/12/2021

Are you a school student planning to attend university next year? 🎓🏫
Come along for a night of Christmas fun to our Board Games and Pizza Night, and learn more about Student Orthodox Fellowship in Australia! 🎄🤩

We are YOUTH who run societies/clubs for Orthodox students on university campuses, with the aim of connecting university students with the Orthodox Christian faith. ☦️ 😇

Meet other like-minded Orthodox university students and students who plan on going to university next year, and meet SOFIA’s chaplains and our Bishop in charge, His Grace Bishop Emilianos of Meloa ☺️

Open to all youth 16+ and university students. Registration is essential for catering purposes: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/sofia-youth-board-games-pizza-night-tickets-214913661547

16/10/2021

Join us this coming Monday night for the fourth talk in our “Understanding Orthodox Christianity in Light of Other Faiths” talk series, ‘Orthodoxy, Hinduism and Buddhism’, presented by Dr Mario Baghos. Details below 👇

🗓 Monday 18th October
⏰ 7.30pm AEST
📍 Zoom ID: 88906713256
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/88906713256

Meet the Speaker:
Dr Mario Baghos is Lecturer in Patristics and Church History at St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College, and Chief Publishing Officer of St Andrew’s Orthodox Press. His most recent book is entitled From the Ancient Near East to Christian Byzantium: Kings, Symbols, and Cities (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021). His next book, Remnants of New Rome: Reflections on the Sacred Topography of Constantinople, will soon be published by St Andrew’s Orthodox Press.

09/10/2021

Join us this coming Monday night for the third talk in our “Understanding Orthodox Christianity in Light of Other Faiths” talk series, “Orthodoxy and Judaism”, presented by the Very Reverend Fr Gerasimos Koutsouras. Details below 👇

🗓 Monday 11th October
⏰ 7.30pm AEST
📍 Zoom ID: 88906713256
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/88906713256

Meet the Speaker:

Father Gerasimos is an historian and is the parish priest at the Greek Orthodox
Church and Community of St George in Rosebay. Father Gerasimos has a Master of Theology and a Diploma of Byzantine Music from the University of Thessalonica,
as well as a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from the University of Sydney.
Father was trained in Byzantine ecclesiastical music by the late Demetrios
Sourlantzis, Archon Music Teacher of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, before he
was appointed protopsaltis of the Church of St Theodora in Thessalonica. Upon his return to Australia, Father taught at All Saints Grammar, Belmore, before being ordained to the diaconate and priesthood in 2007. He is also a former lecturer in Church History at St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College, where he taught for many years. Fr Gerasimos specialises in the late Byzantine and modern history of our church and has presented on various subjects in this field at different tertiary institutions, parishes and youth fellowships. He is also the Orthodox chaplain at the University of Sydney.

06/10/2021