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Distinguished people receive high acknowledgments of the Serbian Church

February 22, 2013 News

22/2/13 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, on 18 February 2013, handed over high distinction of the Serbian Orthodox Church to the deserved individuals for their contribution in the fields of economy, science, art, culture and for  the improvement of the human rights and freedom. For the expressed unselfish love towards the Hoy Mother Church, the [...]

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You are heroes and we are proud of you!

August 18, 2012 News

17/8/2012 Serbian Church Serbian Prime Minister Mr. Ivica Dacic and His Grace Bishop Andrej of Remesiana, vicar of Serbian Patriarch, thanked yesterday the firemen from Serbia, who participated in extingushing the fire on the Mount Athos near the Hilandar monastery. The leader of the firemen squad Goran Nikolić said that his men with his Greek [...]

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Beloved Professor, Veselin Kesich, Reposes in the Lord

June 29, 2012 News

By Deborah (Malacky) Belonick 29/6/2012 On Tuesday morning, June 26th, Dr. Veselin Kesich, who was Professor of New Testament emeritus at St. Vladimir’s Seminary, reposed in the Lord. Professor Kesich, after suffering from a heart ailment for many years, passed away surrounded by his children, Gregory and Carol, at his apartment in Scarborough, Maine, where [...]

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Slava of St. George church in Prizren

May 9, 2012 News

Serbian Church 7/5/2012 In Prizren the church slava was solemnly celebrated in Prizren yesterday in the church of St. George the Great Martyr. The joy of the festivity was even greater, because the feast of St. George was also slava of Bishop Teodosije of Raska-Prizren who led the Divine Liturgy with the concelebration of 14 [...]

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Conference of the Edict of Milan opens

May 9, 2012 Featured News

Serbian Church 7/5/2012 In the congress hall of the Hotel Center in Novi Sad, on Wednesday, May 3, 2012 an international conference began: The Edict of Milan (313-2013): Basis for freedom of religion and belief. Opening this conference, His Grace Bishop Dr Irinej of Backa welcomed all high representatives of European confessions and all participants.У [...]

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Church consecrated in Rooty Hill

April 28, 2012 News

Serbian Church Metropolitanate of Australia and New Zealand On Bright Saturday, on April 21, 2012, the restored church of St. Stephen the Hierodeacon was consecrated in Sidney’s suburb of Rooty Hill. The Holy Liturgy was served by Bishop Irinej of Australia-New Zealand, Bishop Longin of New Gracanica and Midwestern America and Bishop Seraphim of Apolonia [...]

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President of the Republic of Srpska and Minister of Finance of BiH visit Diocese of Zahumlje-Herzegovina

April 2, 2012 News

1/4/2012 Serbian Church Diocese of Zahumlje-Herzegovina was visited by Milorad Dodik, President of the Republic of Srpska and Nikola Spiric, Minister of Finance and Treasury of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The guests were welcomed by His Grace Bishop Grigorije of Zahumlje-Herzegovina with associates and informed them about works on the restoration of the Cathedral church, the [...]

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Patriarch Irinej opens Easter Fair

March 28, 2012 News

28/3/2012 Serbian Church His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch opened last night in Belgrade the Easter Fait, which is organised by the Publishing Fund of the Archbishopric of Belgrade-Karlovac. A detail programme of fair events you can find here. Source:

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News from Herzegovina

March 28, 2012 Featured News

28/3/2012 Serbian Church Gornje Hrasno – According to the tradition, people who originate from Gornje Hrasno, assemble on Mid-Lenten Sunday at the Divine Liturgy, in their village of the destroyed church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist. It was the same also on this Mid-Lenten Sunday, on March 25, 2012. The Divine Liturgy [...]

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Sunday of Orthodoxy solemnly celebrated

March 7, 2012 Featured News

5/3/2012 Serbian Church Gnjilane – On the first week of the Great Lent – the Sunday of Orthodoxy – Bishop Teodosije of Raska-Prizren served the Holy Liturgy in the monastery of Draganac near Gnjilane with the concelebration of protosyngellos Kiril and hieromonk Ilarion. About forty believers participated in the Liturgy and later partook the Holy [...]

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General Bertolini at the Patriarchate of Pec

March 7, 2012 News

6/3/2012 Serbian Church On Wednesday, Thursday March 1, 2012, the Stauropegic laura of the Patriarchate of Pec was visited by the Italian Joint Operations Headquarters Commander, Lieutenant General Marco Bertolini. General Bertolini visited the Office of the Committee for Kosovo and Metohija, and from there, accompanied by Bishop Jovan of Lipljan, vicar of Serbian Patriarch [...]

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Order of Saint Despot Stephen to Milovan Vitezovic and Miodrag Vujovic

February 29, 2012 News

24/2/2012 Serbian Church His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch awarded on February 22, 2012 in the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade Messrs Milovan Vitezovic and Miodrag Vujovic with the Order of Saint Despot Stephen Lazarevic in the presence of the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church Their Graces Bishops: Vasilije of [...]

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Ceremony regarding the Statehood Day

February 17, 2012 Featured News

16/2/2012 Serbian Church His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch accompanied by vicar Bishop Atanasije of Hvosno attended the central ceremony regarding the Statehood Day, which was held at the House of the National Assembly in Belgrade on February 15, 2012. On this occasion President of the Republic of Serbia Boris Tadic handed to prominent individuals and [...]

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Dr Dragutin Trickovic receives Order of Saint Sava of the Third degree

February 17, 2012 News

Serbian Church 16/2/2012 The Holy Holy Hierarchal Liturgy of the Serbian Orthodox Church gave primarius Dr Dragutin Trickovic, director of the Dr Vukan Čupić Mother and Child Health Care Institute of Serbia in New Belgrade, with the highest distinction of the Serbian Orthodox Church – Order of Saint Sava of the Third Degree, for active [...]

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Metropolitan Amfilohije gets an honorary doctorate (honoris causa) of the Saint Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris

February 12, 2012 News

9/2/2012 Serbian Church The Saint Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris announced that a formal session, at which the Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral would be awarded with an honorary doctorate, to be held on February 12 of this year, commencing at 3 p.m. hours. The session will be presided by His Eminence [...]

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First visit of Patriarch Irinej to Mirijevo

February 6, 2012 News

6/2/2012 Serbian Church His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch served yesterday the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of St. Panteleon in Belgrade’s suburb of Mirijevo, with the concelebration of local priests and priests of the Archbishopric of Belgrade-Karlovac. A very low temperature did not prevent lots of believers to welcome Serbian Patriarch and fulfill this [...]

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Let’s keep God’s creation – let’s use the renewable energy sources

February 6, 2012 Featured News

Serbian Church 3/2/2012 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch received yesterday a group of young scientits – inovators Strawberry energy who deal with research and development of the renewable energy sources (solar energy, winds, termal waters…). The cooperation with ” Strawberries” Svetosavsko Zvonce began last summer in the children’s park Joy when the workshop for children [...]

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Chief of the delegation of the European Union Mr. Leopold Maurer visits Diocese of Budimlje-Niksic

January 29, 2012 News

Serbian Church 26/1/2012 The chief of the EU delegation in Montenegro His Excellency ambassador Leopold Maurer accompanied by the spokesman of the Delegation Mr. Dragan Mugosa on January 19, 2012 visited the administrative seat of the Diocese of Budimlje-Niksic in Niksic. In an cordial and open talk with Bishop Joanikije of Budimlje-Niksic ambassador Maurer exchanged [...]

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Relics of Holy Martyrs Momisici in Australia and Fiji

January 21, 2012 News

Serbian Church 19/1/2012 Particles of the martyrs of Christ of our freedom-loving and Christ-loving kin, were generously donated by the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral to the Metropolitanate of Australia-New Zealand. During the consecration of newly-built churches, particles of these relics of the martyrs were built in Holy Tables of Serbian churches of the [...]

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Memorial service held for the victims of the Curug raid

January 9, 2012 Featured News

Serbian Church 5/1/2012 The memorial service was served on January 4, 2012 in the church of the Ascension of the Lord in Curug to the new martyrs of Curug and to all who suffered in the 1942 raid. His Grace Bishop Irinej of Backa served the memorial service with the concelebration of bishops: Vasilije of [...]

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Academician Milorad Ekmecic and architect Mirko Kovacevic awarded with the order of St. Sava

December 31, 2011 Featured News

29/12/2011 Serbian Church Today at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade, His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch awareded academician Milorad Ekmecic and architect Mirko Kovacevic. The celebration was attended by members of the Holy Synod of Bishops – Their Graces Bishops: Vasilije of Srem, Irinej of Backa, Jovan of Sumadija, as well as Their Graces Bishops Pahomije [...]

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Help to Children’s home of St. Sava in Africa

December 31, 2011 News

28/12/2011 Serbian Church According to many years’ tradition that each great holiday representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Church community of St. Sava from Johannesburg visit orphanage of St. Sava in Atridgeville, which is led by an Orthodox priest Frumentije. All what is collected in a few monts at the church in Johannesburg, is sent to [...]

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Liturgical gathering in the church of St. Basil on Bezanijska Kosa

December 26, 2011 Featured News

Serbian Church 26/12/2011 His Holiness Irinej served the Holy Liturgy in St. Basil of Ostrog church on Bezanijska Kosa. Many people of the Serbian capital gathered on this occasion to attend the formal placing of the reliquary in which are the relics of St. Basil the Wonderworker transferred through Herzegovna and Montenegro in the prayerfull [...]

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Turkish delegation from Turkey visits the Diocese of Zahumlje-Herzegovina

December 23, 2011 News

23/12/2011 Serbian Church Consul general of the Republic of Turkey in Mostar Tulgo Bermek and representatives of Turkish agency for development (TIKA) with the seat in Sarajevo on December 22 visited the Diocese of Zahumlje-Herzegovina. The delegation was cordially welcomed by protopresbyter-staurophor Radivoje Krulj with representatives of the CC Mostar. The distinguished guests were got [...]

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Communique of the Archbishopric of Ohrid

December 13, 2011 News

Serbian Church- Autonomous Archbishopric of Ohrid 13/12/2-11 On 12th December 2011, in attempt to enter the F.Y.R. Macedonia, on the border-crossing Medzitlija, on the border with Greece, the Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje kyr kyr Jovan was arrested and taken to the “Idrizovo” prison, near Skopje. Upon the false accusations by the schismatic [...]

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