SHOCKING video captured moments after a knifeman unleashed on a bishop in Sydney shows the alleged attacker grinning from ear to ear.
He smiled eerily at a camera as he lay pinned to the floor of a church by brave witnesses and a police officer.
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Well-known bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was stabbed on Monday night, about 7pm local time, as he preached to his congregation at Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley.
At least four people were stabbed in the sudden knife attack.
It was the second mass stabbing to hit Sydney in just 48 hours, after 40-year-old Joel Cauchi carried out a senseless rampage at a shopping centre and killed six people.
A YouTube livestream of the bishop’s service showed him speaking from the alter, when a man dressed in a dark hoodie approached him.
The man calmly walked up to the elderly church leader then suddenly lunged at him, raising a hand which appeared to hold a knife and stabbing furiously at the bishop.
He appeared to be aiming for the clergyman’s chest and neck.
The bishop tumbled to the ground, dragging the lectern down with him, as brave churchgoers leapt from their seats and piled on top of the alleged attacker.
Others made urgent calls to emergency services.
New footage showed the man smiling at a camera as he lay facedown under the weight of churchgoers – beside a man whose jeans were stained with blood.
He is said to have been detained on the floor before cops swooped in and arrested him.
Bishop Emmanuel – who has a huge following on social media – was reportedly stabbed multiple times and rushed to hospital.
Footage showed him being rushed to an ambulance on a stretcher as a large crowd of furious bystanders gathered outside the church.
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