Indiction at the Beginning of the Ecclesiastical New Year

Days of Holy Martyrs of Jasenovac

The celebration of Holy New Martyrs of Jasenovac under auspices of  the Diocese of Pakrac-Slavonia commenced on 3 September 2017 with a Liturgy at the monastery church of the Nativity of Saint John the Forerunner in Jasenovac, and will end on 13 September, the day when the Serbian Church marks their memory.

With the blessing of His Grace Bishop Jovan of Pakrac-Slavonia, the central event of celebration began on 8 September 2017 with the regular annual symposium "New Martyrs: Polyperspective III", which was organized by the Jasenovac Committee of the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Museum of Genocide Victims from Belgrade. With the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Porfirije of Zagreb-Ljubljana, the second part of the symposium was held  in the premises of the Serbian Orthodox High School "Kantakuzina Katarina Brankovic" in Zagreb this year as well.

Patron saint-day of the church of Synaxis of the Serbian saints on Karaburma

On the occasion of the church slava, His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy at the church of Synaxis of Serbian Saints on Karaburma on 10 September 2017.

The Patriarch was concelebrated by protopresbyter-staurophors Dragan Stanisic, Ratko Aksentic, Zivadin Protic and Spasoje Zivanovic, Arhimandrite Filimon - abbot of the Kaona Monastery, presbyter Dejan Antic, as well as protodeacon Stevan Rapajic and deacons Jovo Kalinic, Aleksandar Prascevic and Nemanja Ristic.

Bishop Sergije of Bihac-Petrovac enthroned

On the feast-day of the Synaxis of All Serbian Saints Bishop Sergije of Bihac-Petrovac was enthroned in the Cathedral church of Holy Apostles Peter and Paul  (photo gallery).

His Eminence Metropolitan Porfirije of Zagreb-Ljubljana officiated the solemn Hierarchal Liturgy with the concelebration of Their Graces Bishops: Sergije of Bihac-Petrovac, Pahomije of Vranje, Jovan of Sumadija, Fotije of Dalmatia and elected of Zvornik and Tuzla; Atanasije of Milesheva, Joanikije of Budimlje-Niksic, Marko of Bregalnica, Gerasim of Gornji Karlovac, Ilarion of Timok, retired Bishops Konstantin of Middle Europe and Georgije of Canada. The solemn rite of the enthronement was attended by Their Graces Bishops: Jefrem of Banja Luka, Vasilije of Srem, Mitrophan of Canada, retired Bishop Vasilije of Zvornik-Tuzla and Archimandrite Nikodim, elected Bishop of Dalmatia.

Remembering the victims of the Concentration camp Jasenovac

Conversation on various consequences of the horrible and tacit crime of the Ustashas, committed against innocent civilians, Serbs, Romas and Jews in Jasenovac, the greatest concentration camps in the so-called Independent State of Croatia.

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, received Minister of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia Mladen Sarcevic, PhD; State Secretary Ana Langovic Milicevic, PhD; President of the Association of the Jewish Communities of Serbia Mr. Robert Sabados; Ambassador of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia and Coordinator of the Serbian-Jewish Academic Project of Diaspora LjiljanaNiksic, PhD; member of the Serbian Parliament and President of the Committee for the Diaspora and the Serbs in the region of the National Assembly Ivan Kostic, MSc; member of the Parliament and President of the Union of Serbs of the Region Mr. Miodrag Linta as well as Professor Gideon Grajf, PhD, chief of the expert group of historians GH7.

Bishop Irinej Calls Faithful to Pray and Support Victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma

What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works?
Can his faith save him? If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace, be warmed and filled,’ without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead (James 2:14-17).

Responding to the devastating effects of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, Bishop Irinej calls upon all clergy, monastics and faithful of the Diocese of Eastern America, and all people of good will to fervently pray the Lord strengthen those adversely affected by these natural disasters and to deliver them safely from harm and danger. May He who is the Life and Resurrection grant rest eternal to those who lost their lives and comfort their families and friends.