Mayor of Belgrade Dragan Djilas and advisor to the President Mladjan Djordjevic together with Bishop Teodosije visit Metohija

Vicar Bishop Teodosije of Lipljan welcomed yesterday in the Serbian village of Novake kod Prizrena Mr. Dragan Djilas, the Mayor of Belgrade, who visited together with Mr. Mladjan Djordjevic, the advisor to President Tadic, this village of the returnees in order to give a van for transport as a gift.

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Serbs and the Serbian Church being lynched by media

We consider we should address our believers and inform them about  events that constantly repeat in certain Croatian media, and they are connected with territories where Serbs suffered the most in the last war. The last event that has made us to address the public has been an ultranationalist attack on Mr. Dusan Torbica, a donator of the St. Nicholas church in Kistanje, in the newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija on May 24, 2010.

St. Sava Order of the First Degree to the “Golden Knight” International Film Festival

At the suggestion of His Grace Bishop Dr Irinej Of Novi Sad and Backa, the Holy Synod of Bishops decided to give the highest distinction, the Order of St. Sava of the First Degree to the Golden Knight International Film Festival. This distinction is a reflection of thanksgiving to the Festival which had given an opportunity that a truth about suffering of the Serbian Church and people to be seen worldwide. On this occasion, Bishop Irinej went to Moscow in order to personally hand this highest distinction to the organizers of the “Golden Knight”.

Source: Diocese of Backa

Primates of the Orthodox Churches of Constantinople and Russia celebrate on the Day of the Holy Spirit

On Saturday, May 22, 2010, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew arrived at the Vnukovo Airport in Moscow, Russia, where he was greeted by His Beatitude Patriarch Kyrill of Moscow and All Russia; Metropolitan Hilarion, Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations; together with other members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as clergy and faithful.

Monday of the Holy Spirit and celebration of Sts. Cyril and Methodius in Belgrade

On behalf, and with the blessing of, His Holiness IRINEJ, Serbian Patriarch, His Grace Bishop Atanasije of Hvosno, Vicar of Patriarch, served the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of Holy Trinity, at the Podvorye of the Moscow Patriarchate in Belgrade. His Grace Bishop was concelebrated by protopresbyters-staurophors Trajan Kojic, Tode Jeftenic, Radivoje Panic, head of the church and head of the Podvorye of the Moscow Patriarchat, protopresbyter Branislav Panic, presbyter Nebojsa Topolic, protodeacon Stevan Rapajic and deacon Aleksandar Sekulic.

Serbian Police celebrates its Patron Saint's Day

On behalf and with the blessing of His Holiness IRINEJ, Serbian Patriarch, His Grace Bishop Atanasije of Hvosno, Vicar of the Patriarch, cut the slava cake on the day of the Patron Saint of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia, in the presence of Minister Mr. Ivica Dacic, and his closest associates.