Eparchial (Diocesan) News

Children’s Gathering in Dobrinovina Monastery

His Grace Joanikije, Bishop of Budimlje-Niksic, visited participants of the children's gathering held in the Dobrilovina Monastery on September 30, 2018, on the feast of the Holy Martyrs Faith, Hope and Love and their mother Sofia.

The Holy Liturgy in this monastery was served as by the clergy of the Diocese of Budimlje-Niksic. The faithful people of that region attended the holy service together with the youngest participants in the gathering from Bijelo Polje, Mojkovac and Zabljak.

Consecration and the enthronement of Bishop Dimitrije of Zahumlje, Herzegovina and the Littoral

His Holiness Irinej, Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovac and Serbian Patriarch, celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy with the Holy Sacrament of consecration and enthronement in the church of the Transfiguration in Trebinje.

The Patriarch was concelebrated by Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral, Metropolitan Hrizostom of Dabar-Bosnia, Diocesan Bishop: Atanasije of Mileshevo, Joanikije of Budimlje-Niksic, Grigorije of Frankfurt and Germany, Teodosije of Raska-Prizren, Maxim of Western America, Jovan of Slavonia, Sergije of Bihac-Petrovac, Ilarion of Timok, Heruvim of Osek-Polje and Baranja, Isihije of Mohac, Metodije of Dioclea and retired Bishop Atanasije of Zahulje, Herzegovina ad the Littoral, clergy, deacons,hieromonks and faithful people of the Church.

Sunday of Orthodoxy in Jackson

Saint Sava Church in Jackson, California, was blessed on the eve of the Sunday of Orthodoxy in the year of the Lord 2018^th with new lights for its wall paintings.

This event coincided with the arrival of Mr. MilojeMilinković, iconographer. In the afternoon hours the church was packed with people eager to ask the iconographer various questions regarding his sacred artwork. Majority of those people were not members of the parish, but they had a great respect and interest in our church art.

Archpastoral Christmas Message of Bishop Irinej of Eastern America

The Nativity of the Divine Christ Child, most beloved, uncovers for humankind the paradox with which, from beginning to end, the New Testament Gospel flows: the infinite God is incarnate in the flesh of a little child! (John 1:14). The Omnipotent One is born in the weaknesses of a newborn infant! The Word cries!

We ask ourselves, has it been sufficiently emphasized how much these truths are profoundly interwoven throughout the rest of the earthly life of Jesus? Some would choose to completely set aside these very axioms of human salvation, as fragments of an outdated belief from the domain of fantasy. Are we embarrassed by the appearance of the Star of Bethlehem? It is precisely that illumination which leads us to the manger of the Newborn Christ, in which lies God, manifest neither through force or violence, rather through a helpless being, fully prepared to surrender Himself to humanity (John 1:29).

President Aleksandar Vucic celebrated his Patron Saint-day at the Representation of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Moscow

Within the two-day visit to the Russian Federation, President of the Republic of Serbia Mr. Aleksandar Vucic visited also the Representation of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Moscow, where he celebrated his family’s Patron Saint-day – Saint Nicholas of Myra, the Wonderworker.

The rite of blessing the slava wheat and slava cake was performed by His Grace Bishop Antonije of Moravica, Vicar of the Patriarch and the head of the Representation of the Serbian Orthodox Church, in the church of St. Peter and Paul the Apostles.

Patriarch Irinej visited the Cathedral of St. Sava in NY