Neither cleric sustained life-threatening injuries.
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was allegedly stabbed multiple times by a boy, 16, while giving a sermon at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley on Monday evening.
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was slashed on Monday during a live-streamed sermon in the Assyrian community’s church in western Sydney.
The teenager’s family have moved out of their home following intense media interest and threats of reprisal attacks on Islamic religious centres after the stabbing at the Assyrian Christian church.