Community and Parish of Saint George Thebarton, Adelaide, South Australia

This is partly due to the high population of Greek Australians in the area, mostly from Thebarton, Torrensville and Mile End.

Throughout the 1950s the area became home to a large number of Greek migrants, and by 1966 they formed 13.4 per cent of the population in Thebarton.

The Good Friday evening service, which is officiated by the Assistant Bishop to Archbishop Nikandros of Dorylaeon, includes an anticlockwise procession on the streets with an epitaph being carried from the church at approximately 9:30 p.m. Police accompany the clergy and crowd for the entire procession, and close down the southbound lanes of South Road while the crowds walk behind the clergy and the epitaph.

Celebrations such as the feast day of St. George usually have over 1000 people attending, and the outdoor sound system is turned on for the benefit of the hundreds outside.

Father Diogenis Patsouris, Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Throne OAM was then appointed parish priest of Saint George in 1970.