Australian police say a bishop and three churchgoers were stabbed in Sydney and a man has been arrested. There are currently no life-threatening injuries.

Police said the incident occurred during a televised service at the church on Monday night. The Assyrian Orthodox Church streams live worship services online.

A video on social media showed a man dressed in black approaching a clergyman, the bishop of Christ the Good Shepherd in the suburb of Wakeley, at the altar and appearing to stab him repeatedly in the head and upper body .

Congregants were seen screaming and rushing towards the bishop. The church website calls the bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel.

The NSW Ambulance Service said it had treated a man in his 50s with multiple cuts and taken him to hospital, while three other people were treated at the scene for one or more cuts.

“Police are conducting a large-scale response and are urging the public to avoid the area,” police said.

Australians are still in shock after a lone attacker stabbed six people to death and injured a dozen others in a busy Sydney shopping mall on Saturday.

Christ the Good Shepherd has been preparing for Palm Sunday later this month.

The bishop was in national news last year.

A video released by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in May 2023 about the campaign against the LGBTQ+ community showed the bishop saying in a sermon that “when a man calls himself a woman, he is neither a man nor a woman, you are not a human being, Then you are an it, and since you are an it, I will no longer call you a person, because this is not my choice, but your choice.”