A livestream of the service appeared to show the attack. Australian Jewish Asociation/Twitter via CNN.
A bishop was among several people reportedly stabbed at a church service in Sydney, Australia on Monday – just two days after the city was rocked by a mass stabbing in a busy shopping mall, report from Sydney, Australia CNN.
Video of the incident appears to show a clergyman being attacked during a ceremony at Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, western Sydney.
Several others immediately attempted to intervene while screams could be heard in the church.
A man was arrested after officers were called to the incident and have been removed from the church, New South Wales police said.
Police said none of those hurt received life-threatening injuries, and that they were treated by paramedics at the scene before being taken to the hospital.
“Police continue to work on restoring order,” the force said in a statement. “A large police response is underway and the public is urged to avoid the area.”
The incident comes shortly after six people were killed and several others injured, including a nine-month-old baby, in a stabbing attack at Westfield Bondi Junction on Saturday afternoon.
Australian police said Monday that the attacker in Bondi, 40-year-old Joel Cauchi, may have targeted women.
Five women were among the six people killed by Cauchi. Twelve others were injured, eight of whom remained in the hospital Monday in conditions ranging from stable to critical.
據報道，在商場持刀襲擊兩天后，畢肖普是悉尼教堂被刺傷的幾人之一
根據澳洲有線電視新聞網(CNN) 報道，澳洲雪梨週一在一座教堂舉行禮拜時被刺傷，其中一名主教是其中之一。大規模刺傷事件。
事件的影片似乎顯示，一名牧師在雪梨西部韋克利基督好牧人教堂舉行的儀式上遭到襲擊。
其他幾人立即試圖介入，教堂內傳來尖叫聲。
新南威爾斯州警方稱，警方接到報警後逮捕了一名男子，並將其帶離教堂。
警方表示，傷者中沒有一人受到危及生命的傷害，他們在現場接受了護理人員的治療，然後被送往醫院。
警方在一份聲明中表示：“警方將繼續努力恢復秩序。” “警方正在採取大規模應對措施，敦促公眾避開該地區。”
週六下午，Westfield Bondi Junction發生了一起刺傷襲擊事件，造成六人死亡、多人受傷，其中包括一名九個月大的嬰兒。
澳洲警方週一表示，邦迪的襲擊者是 40 歲的喬爾·考奇 (Joel Cauchi)，其攻擊目標可能是女性。
被考奇殺害的六人中有五名女性。 另有十二人受傷，其中八人周一仍在醫院，情況從穩定到危急不等。
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