Patriarch

Serbian Patriarch Porfirije in Kladovo

On August 8, 2021, His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, arrived in Kladovo thus beginning his first official visit to the Diocese of Timok.

His Holiness was welcomed at the courtyard of the church of the Holy Great Martyr George in Kladovo by His Grace Bishop Ilarion of Timok along with Their Graces Bishops Arsenije of Nis, Nikodim of Dalmatia and Kiril of Buenos Aires and South-Central America, the clergy, the monastics and the faithful people of the Diocese of Timok.

Patriarch Porfirije congratulates the Serbian Olympians on their success

On the last competition day of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, congratulates all Serbian athletes on a dignified and successful presentation of Serbia at the largest sports event in the world.

His Holiness Patriarch congratulates all members of the Serbian Olympic team and medal winners, especially Jovana Preković, Milica Mandić, who won the gold medal and repeated the success from the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, as well as Serbian water polo players who won two Olympic gold medals in a generation.

Support of Patriarch Porfirije to the Greek Church due to catastrophic fires

An invitation to the faithful to make donations to help the victims in Greece

His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, sent a letter today to His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and all of Greece in which he expresses his co-suffering love and support to the Church and the people on the occasion of catastrophic fires in which people have been suffering for days and the property of many Greek families, the Church and the state is disappearing.

Patriarch Porfirije: Evil has recorded another gain for itself, man has been defeated, and God who wants peace among people has been betrayed once again, and to what extent!

Sermon of His Holiness Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch, held in the Zemunʼs suburb of Busije after the commemoration for the Serbs who died in the criminal operation Storm of the Croatian army and police.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

We have gathered here in the name of God, dear brothers and sisters, to pray to the risen Lord Jesus Christ to receive into his arms all our relatives, neighbors, fellow citizens, innocent victims of the terrible August days of the 1995;  including those that have suffered before that: from the Zadar Crystal Night, through the suffering in Medak and the villages of Lika, to Pakrac and West Slavonian villages. All innocently murdered in towns and villages, on streets and fields, in houses and apartments. We have gathered to remember in prayer the unprecedented violent exodus of our people from the area of ​​Dalmatia, Banija, Kordun, Lika and western Slavonia. All of that is only a tessera in the mosaic of our recent sufferings and crucifixions, along with Jadovno, Jastrebarsko, Mlaka, Glina and Jasenovac – the horrible death camp from which the last few survivors are with us today, and in front of whose sufferings we bow to the ground, kissing their feet. Mystically present among us is also Saint Martyr Vukašin of Jasenovac from Klepci, whose moving words: “My child, you do your job!” – addressed to a monster deprived of any human likeness, who was cutting off the saint's body parts, are the example of the paradoxical triumph of the just victim over evil, as well as the revelation of God’s logic that is incomprehensible to the human mind, which reveals itself as the mystery of the Cross and Resurrection. That is why, having the experience of Godʼs justice and love, the blessed Patriarch German could say at that place: “We must not forget, but we must forgive”.

Patriarch Porfirije: Faith in the Living God implies struggle and sacrifice

On August 2, 2021, on the feast of the Holy Prophet Elijah, His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch,  officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church dedicated to that saint in the Belgrade settlement of Mirijevo.

The Patriarch was concelebrated by Their Graces Bishops Jerotej of Toplica, elected Bishop Sava of Marca, protopresbyter-staurophor Dragan Predic and deacons Radomir Vrucinic and Nemanja Kalem.

Greeting message from the Serbian Patriarch Porfirije on the occasion of the celebration of the 1033rd anniversary of the Baptism of Russia

Your Beatitude, dear brother and co-worker in Christ, Blessed Brother Onuphry, together with brothers hierarchs, priests and hieromonks, abbesses with the sisterhood, brothers and sisters of the faithful of Kiev, the whole faithful people of Ukraine who firmly and unwaveringly keep the purity of the Orthodox faith Lord and Savior of our Jesus Christ, I congratulate you on the great holiday - the Day of the Baptism of Russia and with it the memory of your Baptist - the Holy Faithful and Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir.

Your personality, dear brother in Christ, firmly managing the ship of the Ukrainian Church, has become a symbol of fidelity to the unity of the Orthodox Church, of courageous resistance to temptations, in this very difficult time. The choice you made, following the personality of your great predecessor, Metropolitan Vladimir, is identical to the choice made by Saint Prince Vladimir, when he decided on Orthodoxy, having previously become acquainted with all the religions of the world at that time. Remaining faithful to the canonical order and unity with the Orthodox Church, you have repeated the election of the Holy Prince Vladimir. Thus, with your hierarchs, clergy, monastics and people, you have become a role model that is recognized in our believing Serbian people. You have, Your Beatitude, witnessed brotherly and active love when you came to that part of the Serbian Orthodox Church which was, and still is, exposed to similar, very dangerous temptations, in Montenegro. There, together with the late Metropolitan Amfilohije, you prayed for the unity of the Church and led the liturgy that made us, Orthodox Serbs, as well as the people of Ukraine, be recognized in the world for our fidelity to Christ, for courageously resisting the temptations that the prince of this world puts before us.