Prime Minister AleksandarVucic visited Banjska Monastery

His Grace Bishop Teodosije of Raska-Prizren along with abbot of the monastery protosyncellos Danilo and faithful welcomed the Prime Minister of the Government of Serbia Aleksandar Vucic at the Banjska Monastery on the 5^th of April 2016

Following the tour around the church and the monastery compound, Bishop Teodosije addressed Prime Minister and the audience.

Letter of condolence

Letter of condolences to
Esteemed Mufti of Belgrade
Muhamed JUSUFSPAHIC
Belgrade

Very Esteemed Mufti,

On the occasion of repose of the esteemed Reisul-Ulema of the Islamic Community of Serbia and longstanding Mufti of Belgrade, Hamdija Jusufspahic, and Your beloved parent, on behalf of the Serbian Orthodox Church and on Our own behalf We send Our most sincere condolences.to You, Venerable Mufti, and via Your personality to all the believers of the Islamic Community of Serbia,

The Serbian Orthodox Church had an honest friend in the person of late Mufti of blessed repose and the community gathered around him. We are especially grateful for Mufti's unreserved commitment for honest and good interpersonal relations, in particular for peace and prosperity among all the people of good will in Serbia, without exception, in one particularly challenging time for the people of Serbia.

In the person of Mufti of blessed repose the Islamic Community of Serbia has lost a great and wise man, but the consolation abides is legacy that will, we believe, continue the same way, and that is the way of peace and inter-religious understanding.

With respects towards Your respected family,

SERBIAN PATRIARCH
IRINEJ

The Serbian Church and the Russian emigration (1920-1940)

Exhibition of the archival documents “The Serbian Orthodox Church and the Russian Emigration (1920-1940)

With the blessing of Serbian Patriarch Irinej and the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the Archives of the Serbian Orthodox Church is to hold an exhibition entitled "The Serbian Orthodox Church and the Russian Emigration (1920-1940)".

Unity of Serbian people common goal of Church and State

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, received Mr. Aleksandar Vucic, Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Serbia at the Serbian Patriarchate on 25 March 2016.

The reception was also attended by: His Grace Bishop Dr Irinej of Backa, Minister of Justice Mr. Nikola Selakovic and adviser to the Prime Minister Mr. Vladimir Bozovic.

Unity of Serbian people common goal of Church and State

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej agreed at a meeting that the relations between the state and the SPC are good, noting that the relations between the state and other religious communities in Serbia are good as well.

The Sunday of St Gregory Palamas

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Why do we fast? Why do we make sacrifices? Why do we stand at long services? Why do we pray? To those of us who are beginning to doubt and waver after only two weeks of the Fast, the Church brings us an answer today. This answer is in the person of St Gregory Palamas, the fourteenth-century Archbishop of Salonica in Greece to whom this Sunday is dedicated.

Ambassador of Venezuela visits Serbian Patriarch

His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irinej received Her Excellency Dr. Dia Nader de el Andari at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade on 24 March 2016.

The reception was also attended by Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral, the Administrator of the Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church for South and Central America, as well as Mr. Darwin Castillo, Consul.