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By Yuri Maksimov
I have never personally seen Patriarch Pavle, although I have heard about him for a long time. I first visited Serbia in fall 2006. I very much wanted to see His Holiness, especially because, from what I knew, he was normally completely accessible. It was not that I expected to have an audience, [...]

November 18, 2009

Timesonline Article
Visibly devout, humble, diminutive and plain-speaking, Patriarch Pavle led the Serbian Orthodox Church through very difficult years.
On taking office in December 1990 he was thrown immediately into the maelstrom of Serbian and wider Yugoslav politics as the old communist state began to be pulled apart on ideological and ethnic lines.
Pavle’s long [...]