WA icon artist to be ordained for Ukrainians

06 Jun 2013

By The Record

Parish priest Fr Wolodymyr Kalinecki and Perth’s Ukrainian Catholics celebrate Easter according to the Julian calendar on May 5 at St John the Baptist church in Maylands. PHOTO: Courtesy of St John the Baptists church, Maylands

Perth teacher Richard Charlwood will be ordained to the minor orders of Lector and Sub-deacon in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church at Maylands on June 23.

Bishop Peter Stasiuk CSsR will preside over the ceremony, which will be held at St John the Baptist Church.

Mr Charlwood was born in Parramatta, NSW, but has lived in WA since 1991.

Since 2007 he has taught Indonesian with the School of Isolated and Distance Education, and he is a registered primary teacher with qualifications in language education and religious education.

Mr Charlwood has completed extensive studies in theology and has been highly successful specifically in Byzantine studies at the Byzantine Catholic Seminary in Pittsburgh.

He was received into the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church five years ago, by Bishop Stasiuk on May 12, 2008.

Mr Charlwood fills the role of cantor at Vespers and Divine Liturgy on Saturday evenings at St John the Baptist parish. He also has a long history of icon writing, with several examples of his work adorning the Maylands church.

Mr Charlwood hopes his chosen path will soon result in ordination to the order of Deacon.