Serbian Patriarch received the Ambassador of Russia

His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, received His Excellency Aleksander Botsan-Harchenko, the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Serbia at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade on 11 March 2021.    

His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Porfirije and His Excellency Aleksander Botsan-Harchenko during the audience talked about historical and curre nt topics in relations between brotherly nations of Serbia and Russia with a goal to recognize directions of further development and the strengthening of their firm friendly relations.

KUD Drina celebrates Feast day - Saint George of Kratovo

On Sunday, March 7th, 2021, the folk ensemble Drina of Saint John the Baptist parish in Paterson, New Jersey celebrated their Feast Day – Slava of Saint George of Kratovo. The Hierarchical Divine Liturgy was officiated by His Grace Bishop Irinej of Eastern America. His Grace was joined in concelebration by the Very Rev. Protopresbyter Djokan Majstorovic, Rev. Presbyter Lavrentije (Larry) Soper, and Protodeacon Milos Zdralic.

Visit of officials to the Diocese of Srem and Theological Seminary in Sremski Karlovci

His Grace Bishop Vasilije of Srem and the Serbian Orthodox Seminary of Saint Arsenije in Sremski Karlovci were visited by Mr. Petar Petkovic,  Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija; and Mileta Radojevic, Ph.D., Adviser to the Minister of Education for religious teaching and education. on 9 March 2021.

In a cordial conversation, Bishop Vasilije informed the distinguished guests of activities and projects of the Diocese of Srem. У пријатном разговору епископ Василије је упознао уважене госте са активностима и пројектима Епархије сремске. A visit to the Karlovac seminary followed, where high guests were informed by archpriest Jovan Milanovic, the rector of the seminary, about the efforts of that famous Serbian theological school to continue its activities on enlightenment and education of young generations who will take the helm of the Serbian Church.

Graduates of the seminaries visited Nis

On Saturday, March 6, 2021, when the Church of God prayerfully celebrates the memory of the faithful who found peace in the arms of the ancestor Abraham - the Eucharist, the city where the Holy Emperor Constantine and the Diocese of Nis were born had the great joy to host professors and graduates of the seminaries of the Serbian Orthodox Church from Belgrade and Sremski Karlovci.

In the Cathedral church of the Diocese of Nis, protopresbyter-staurophor Branislav Cincarevic served the Holy Liturgy with the concelebration of deacons Nemanja Kalem and Radomir Vrucinic, Professor of Theology "St. Sava" in Belgrade, deacon Djordje Milidrag, Professor of Theology "St. Arsenije of Srem" in Sremski Karlovci, and a decon Predrag Piperski, an officer of the DSC of the Diocese of Nis. 

The Liturgy in the chapel of the Patriarchal Residence

His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the chapel of the Patriarchal Residence in Belgrade on 7 March 2021, on Meatfare Sunday. 

Farewell speech of the Serbian Patriarch Porfirije at the funeral of Bishop Atanasije (Jevtic) of blessed repose

  With the blessing of the Patriarch, the letter was read by His Eminence Metropolitan Hrizostom of Dabar-Bosnia.

Brothers archbishops, priests, monks and nuns, faithful people of Saint Sava‘s Herzegovina and all of you, brothers and sisters from various Serbian areas: from Kosovo to Jadovno, from Thessaloniki to Buda, wherever there are Serbian birds, arrived in Trebinje and the Tvrdos monastery to see off our father and Bishop Atanasije on the way from death to life. To eternal life! Even more - countless more - are ourselves who are in the spirit with you and grieve that we cannot receive the last blessing and the last kiss to give. Among them are me, once young and ignorant, and the bishop would say an unknown student of the first year of theology. But - his student, which I am infinitely proud of, and my heart is full when I say it or think about it, and I trust many bishops, priests, monks, who were his students, who listened to him at the faculty in those old years, at public lectures in Belgrade, and also those who serve the Church as lay people, and on Sundays and holidays they flocked to the Vavedenje monastery, where he, together with wonderful professors, served our fathers Amfilohije and Irinej and opened the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven to us on earth.