Makarios Griniezakis

His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia (Griniezakis) was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1973. Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of Australia and of all Oceania since May 2019. Universities of Boston, (Master of Sacred Theology), Harvard, (Master of Arts), and Monash, (Master of Bioethics), University of Crete (Doctor of Philosophy) published under the title, “Cloning: Social, Ethical and Theological Components”.

Since 2003 he has been teaching at the Patriarchal Academy of Crete. Simultaneously, he has served as a visiting Professor to various Universities, amongst which are the Theological College of Holy Cross in Boston, the University of Tartu, and the Medical Schools of the Universities of Crete, Thessaly, and Athens. In May 2015, he was elected as the first Dean of the Department of Orthodox Studies in the Autonomous Church of Estonia.

He has served as a priest in the USA and Crete as well served as a bishop in Crete and Estonia. He is the President of the Synodal Committee for Bioethics of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

His Eminence has been a Director and President of St. Basil’s Homes since 9 May 2019.