Central celebration of the jubilee of the Serbian Church in Australia

Eight hundred years of the autocephaly of the Serbian Orthodox Church and seventy years since the establishment of the organized church life on the territory of the Metropolitanate of Australia-New Zealand where celebrated conciliarly in the most solemn and pan-Orthodox way in the chapel of the College of Saint Sava in Varoville, Sidney on 7 September 2019.

Bishop Siluan of Australia and New Zealand officiated with the concelebration of Bishop Jacob of Miletoupolis (Ecumenical Patriarchate), Metropolitan Basil (Patriarchate of Antioch), Bishop Longin of New Gracanica and Midwestern America, father Peter – representative of the Bishop Michael (Romanian Patriarchate), the most distinguished guest from Imperial laura of the Monastery of Chilandar Archimandrite Metodije and clergy of the Metropolitanate of Australia-New Zealand.

Pope Francis meets with Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew

The meeting between the Pope and the Patriarch was held in “a fraternal atmosphere”, according to a communiqué from the Holy See Press Office.

Pope Francis and Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople also had lunch together at the Casa Santa Marta with their respective delegations.

850th anniversary of Nemanja’s endowments

The central celebration of the jubilee of 850 years of Nemanja’s endowments (foundations) was held in the  monastery of Saint Nicholas in Kursumlija on 14^th and 15^th September 2019, under auspices of the Orthodox Diocese of Nis and the Municipality of Kursumlija.

In the courtyard of the monastery of Saint Nicholas in Kursumlija, one of the oldest endowments of Great Zupan Stefan Nemanja, later Saint Simeon, the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy was officiated by His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral on Sunday 15^th September 2019.

Forthcoming Celebrations in the Diocese of Eastern America

Hierarchal Liturgy in the birthplace of Patriarch Pavle

The Feast day of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, the day when Serbian Patriarch Pavle was born in 1914, was prayerfully celebrated in the church of Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Kucanci on 11 September 2019.

Their Graces Bishops Metodije of Deoclea and Jovan of Slavonia celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy with the concelebration of the clergy of the dioceses of Slavonia and Belgrade in the birthplace of Patriarch Pavle.

Slava of the church of Synaxis of Serbian Saints on Karaburma

The Patron Saint-day of the church of the Synaxis of All Serbian Saints on Karaburma was celebrated on 15 September 2019 with the Holy Liturgy which was officiated by His Grace Bishop Stefan of Remesiana, Vicar of the Serbian Patriarch.

The Bishop was concelebrated by Archimandrite Filimon from Kaona Monastery and many local priests and in the presence of the faithful people.