Saturday, December 19th, 2009
Aboriginal radio man is a Russian priest
by Geoff Vivian
Seraphim Slade
Seraphim Slade is an Aboriginal community broadcaster and now a Russian Orthodox priest.
The church has put him in charge of converting Australia’s Aborigines to the Russian Orthodox faith.
“Priest Seraphim Slade, a clergymen of the Australian and New Zealand Diocese, himself an Aborigine, began his missionary work among the natives of Australia in March 2008,” says a church website.
Mr Slade in 2008 with PRK Radio chairperson Bonnie Deegan and her family. From the official website of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia
Since then he has twice come to Halls Creek to work at PRK Aboriginal radio, the second time as acting manager.
“On July 4, 2009 … His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, Archbishop of Sydney, Australia and New Zealand, consecrated a new church in honor of St John of Shanghai and San Francisco specifically for Orthodox Australian Aboriginals,” says the website.
Mr Slade holds services from time to time in a room at his house in Gunning, a small New South Wales town near Canberra.
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