Serbian Patriarch

Serbian Patriarch receives the delegation of Swiss WOLFSBERG group

May 21, 2013 News

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, received on 11 May 2013 a delegation of the Swiss WOLFSBERG group, consisting of representatives of the eminent Swiss firms, banks, insurance companies, science and media. At the audience His Grace Bishop Andrej of Remesiana held a keynote address to the high guests on the activities of the Serbian Orthodox [...]

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Representatives of the Serbs from Kosovo and Metohia met with Serbian Patriarch Irinej

April 29, 2013 Featured News

29/4/13 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, met with representatives of the Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade yesterday, on 25 April 2013. The delegation was composed by Deputy Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohia Mr. Krstimir Pantic, head of the county of Kosovo-Mitrovica Mr. Radenko Nedeljkovic and presidents [...]

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The Church is building us!

April 29, 2013 News

29/4/13 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, attended yesterday on 25 April 2013 the session of  the Committee for completion of the construction and interior decoration of the Memorial Cathedral of Saint Sava on Vracar. Before the beginning of the session,  Patriarch Irinej accompanied by President of the Committee Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral [...]

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Serbian Patriarch meets with Milorad Dodik, President of Republika Srpska

April 29, 2013 Featured News

29/4/13 President of the Republic of Srpska Mr. Milorad Dodik met with His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch on 20 April 2013 in Banjaluka. President of the Republic of Srpska emphasized that cooperation of the institutions of the Republic of Srpska and the Serbian Orthodox Church was very good, and there were ways to extend further [...]

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Serbian Patriarch visits Seminary of Sts. Cyrill and Methodius in Nis

April 17, 2013 News

On Saturday, 13 April 2013, the Seminary of Sts. Cyrill and Methodius in Nis hosted the meeting with regards to the work of the Sima Igumanov Endownment. His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, chaired this meeting. His Holiness was welcomed at the Seminary by the host, His Grace Bishop Dr Jovan of Nis, along with the [...]

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Serbian Patriarch Irinej at the opening of the Historical Museum of Serbia

April 17, 2013 News

15/4/13 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch attended on 12 April 2013  the solemn opening of the restored Museum of History of Serbia, in which the exhibition “The Karadjordjevics and the Obrenovics in the collections of Historical Museum of Serbia”  was set up. The restored space of the Historical Museum of Serbia was opened by President [...]

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Meeting of Serbian leadership with Serbian Patriarch

April 12, 2013 Featured News

At the Serbian Patriarchate, on 8 April 2013, His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, met with Mr. Tomislav Nikolic, President of Serbia; Mr. Ivica Dacic, Prime Minister of the Government of Serbia and Mr. Aleksandar Vucic, First Vice President of the Government of Serbia. The members of the Holy Synod of Bishops attended the meeting, Their [...]

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His Holiness visits Diocese of Middle Europe

April 2, 2013 News

2/4/13 His Holiness Irinej, Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch, in capacity of the administrator, visited the Diocese of Middle Europe for the second time in the last two months. His Holiness arrived in Frankfurt on Wednesday, 27 March, at the airport where he was welcomed by bishop’s deputy, protopresbyter-stavrophor Milan Pejic [...]

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Serbian Patriarch Irinej meets with Prime Minister Dacic and Christopher Forbes

March 26, 2013 Featured News

24/3/13 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch talked with Mr. Ivica Dacic, Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Serbia and Minister of Internal Affairs, and Mr. Christopher Forbes, Vice Chairman of the Forbes Publishing company on 24 March 2013, at the parish house of the church of Saint Sava on Vracar. Source:

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Crime without Punishment

March 19, 2013 News

19/3/13 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, attended at the National Theatre an academy entitled The Crime without Punishment on the occasion of the anniversary of the March pogrom on Kosovo and Metohia organized by the Office of the Government of Serbia for Kosovo and Metohia. Serbian Patriarch and Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic addressed the [...]

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Audience for cadets at the Serbian Patriarchate on the occasion of the feast of Saint Simeon the Myrrh-Gusher

March 6, 2013 News

5/3/13 On the basis of the Annual program of the cooperation of the Committee for religious education of the Archdiocese of Belgrade-Karlovci and the Military Academy, also this year a traditional audience was organized for officers and cadets of the Military Academy on the occasion of the feast of Saint Simeon the Myrrh-Gusher. About fifty [...]

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Serbian Patriarch and Bishops in Kosovo and Metohia

February 22, 2013 Featured News

22/2/13 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch and members of the Holy Synod of Bishops and the Committee of the Holy Assembly of Bishops for Kosovo and Metohia visited the Southern Serbian province from 6-8 February. Along with Bishop Teodosije of Raska-Prizren and Bishop Jovan of Lipljan, Vicar to His Holiness, in Kosovo and Metohija were [...]

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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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Unity is necessary on important issues

February 16, 2013 Featured News

Serbian Orthodox Church – 16/2/13 President Tomislav Nikolic and Serbian Patriarch Irinej agree that it is necessary to achieve unity оf local public in solving all issues of the national interest. Prime Minister Ivica Dacic also attended the meeting. Mr. Tomislav Nikolic, President of the Republic of Serbia, and Mr. Ivica Dacic, Prime Minister, talked [...]

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Serbian Patriarch Irinej meets with Serbian President

February 16, 2013 Featured News

13/2/13 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, met on 11 February 2013 with Mr.Tomislav Nikolic, President of the Republic of Serbia, at the Office of the President of Serbia in Belgrade. President Nikolic and Serbian Patriarch Irinej expressed their concern regarding the security of the citizens and the Serbian Church in Kosovo and Metohia, especially after [...]

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Serbian Patriarch Irinej in Prizren

February 13, 2013 News

8/2/13 Serbian Patriarch Irinej along with bishops celebrated the Divine Liturgy in Prizren. The Holy Synod of Bishops and the Committee for Kosovo and Metohia held a meeting His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch celebrated yesterday the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral Church of Saint Great Martyr George in Prizren, with concelebration of seven bishops, members [...]

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Patriarch hopes Serbs, Albanians will reconcile soon

February 11, 2013 Featured News

11/2/13 PRIZREN — Serbian Patriarch Irinej stated in Prizren on Thursday that he hopes that Serbs and Albanians “will reconcile soon and live together as brothers”. The patriarch served the holy liturgy in the St. George Church in Prizren together with bishops and clergy of the Rašla-Prizren Diocese. The liturgy was attended by a few [...]

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Delegation of Radio Television of Serbia visits Serbian Patriarch

January 31, 2013 News

Serbian Patriarchate, 28 January 2013 - His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, in the presence of Their Graces Bishops Atanasije of Hvosno and Porfirije of Jegar, met at the Serbian Patriarchate with Mr. Aleksandar Tijanic, General Director of the Radio Television of Serbia with closest associates: Mr. Nikola Mirkov, Director of the Television of Belgrade and Mr. [...]

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Let us sing with love to Saint Sava

January 31, 2013 Featured News

27/1/13  His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch celebrated on Saint Sava’s Day, the Divine Liturgy at the Saint Sava Memorial Cathedral on Vracar. The festal liturgical joy at the Memorial Cathedral of the Serbian people was recorded by deacon Dragan Tanasijevic. Source:  

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Christmas Liturgy at Cathedral Church

January 9, 2013 Featured News

Serbian Orthodox Church – 7/1/2012 His Grace Bishop Atanasije of Hvosno, Vicar of the Serbian Patriarch, celebrated this morning the Divine Liturgy, on the joyful feast day of the Nativity of the Lord, at the Cathedral Church of Saint Michael the Archangel in Belgrade. Besides lots of people, Serbian Patriarch Irinej and Mr. Tomislav Nikolic, [...]

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New 2013 Illustrated Wall Calendar with regard to 1700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan

December 15, 2012 Featured News

15/12/12 With the blessing of His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, the Publishing Foundation of the Serbian Orthodox Church printed the 2013 great wall calendar entitled Emperor Constantine the Great in visual memory of the Serbs Edict of Milan – act on religious tolerance – establishing that “Christians, as well as all others, without exception, are [...]

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Serbian Patriarch Irinej meets with Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic

December 4, 2012 Featured News

3/12/2012 Mr. Tomislav Nikolic, the President of the Republic of Serbia talked on 30 November 2012, with His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch in the Office of the President of Serbia. His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral and His Grace Bishop Irinej of Backa also participated in the talks. Source:  

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History – Basis of the Future

November 30, 2012 News

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch received , on 26 November 2012, at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade Dr. Zivadin Jovanovic, the president of the Belgrade Forum for the World of Equals. Mr. Jovanovic informed the Patriarch about activities of independent and nonpartisan associations with regards to marking significant anniversaries from the recent and distant history [...]

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Consecration of Russian Cemetary in Belgrade

November 20, 2012 News

20/11/2012 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, along with His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the chief of the Office of Inter-Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, consecrated today, on 17 November 2012, the Russian Cemetary in front of the Iver chapel at the New Cemetary in Belgrade. His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the [...]

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Anniversary Day of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

November 20, 2012 News

20/11/2012 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, attended yesterday on 19 November 2012  the solemn celebration of the Anniversary Day of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Mr. Tomislav Nikolic, the President of the Republic of Serbia, representatives of the Government of the Republic of Serbia and the highest educational and cultural institutions, as well [...]

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