{"id":188579,"date":"2018-02-22T14:39:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T12:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=188579"},"modified":"2018-02-22T14:39:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T12:39:43","slug":"enthronement-of-first-orthodox-abbess-in-fiji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/enthronement-of-first-orthodox-abbess-in-fiji\/","title":{"rendered":"Enthronement of first Orthodox abbess in Fiji"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The first Orthodox abbess in Fiji, Eldress Melani, was enthroned at the Monastery of the Dormition of the Theotokos in Saweni, a monastic settlement under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate&#8217;s Metropolis of New Zealand.<\/h4>\n<p>The enthronement ceremony was led by His Eminence Amphilochius, Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>This was a unique event, since sister Melani is the first abbess in Fiji, being\u00a0a native Fijian.<\/p>\n<p>Until now, the monastery founded a few years ago had no spiritual director appointed. The ceremony was attended by Fr. Melethius from the monastery of the Holy Archangels in Levin, New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Abbes Yuliani, of the Kehrovounio Monastery in Tinos, was also in Fiji for the Enthronement as Abbes Melani, together with Sister Anissa, spent one and a half years at the Monastery in Tinos.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-188579 gallery-columns-5 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-size='959x540' href='https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/A-fost-hirotesit\u0103-prima-stare\u021b\u0103-ortodox\u0103-din-Fiji-5.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/A-fost-hirotesit\u0103-prima-stare\u021b\u0103-ortodox\u0103-din-Fiji-5-360x360.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-size='720x453' href='https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/A-fost-hirotesit\u0103-prima-stare\u021b\u0103-ortodox\u0103-din-Fiji-4.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/A-fost-hirotesit\u0103-prima-stare\u021b\u0103-ortodox\u0103-din-Fiji-4-360x360.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-size='720x494' href='https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/A-fost-hirotesit\u0103-prima-stare\u021b\u0103-ortodox\u0103-din-Fiji-3.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/A-fost-hirotesit\u0103-prima-stare\u021b\u0103-ortodox\u0103-din-Fiji-3-360x360.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-size='639x390' href='https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/A-fost-hirotesit\u0103-prima-stare\u021b\u0103-ortodox\u0103-din-Fiji-2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/A-fost-hirotesit\u0103-prima-stare\u021b\u0103-ortodox\u0103-din-Fiji-2-360x360.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-size='720x442' href='https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/A-fost-hirotesit\u0103-prima-stare\u021b\u0103-ortodox\u0103-din-Fiji-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/A-fost-hirotesit\u0103-prima-stare\u021b\u0103-ortodox\u0103-din-Fiji-1-360x360.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Photo credit: <em>Metropolis of New Zealand<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Orthodox abbess in Fiji, Eldress Melani, was enthroned at the Monastery of the Dormition of the Theotokos in Saweni, a monastic settlement under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate&#8217;s Metropolis of New Zealand. The enthronement ceremony was led by His Eminence Amphilochius, Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of New Zealand. This was a unique event,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13434,4818,14387,4556,10386,10705],"class_list":["post-188579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-abbess","tag-enthronement","tag-fiji","tag-new-zealand","tag-orthodox-news","tag-religious-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}