Patriarch

Patriarch Porfirije: All people are invited to praise the Lord

On the feast day of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ, 24 April 2022, His Holiness Kyra Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch served the solemn Paschal Vesper service in Saint Sava Cathedral in Vračar, Belgrade.

The Patriarch was concelebrated by Their Graces Bishops Stefan of Remesiana and Sava of Marča, archimandrite Nektarije, protosynchellos Danilo, archpriests Vitaly Tarasyev, Nenad Jovanović and Branislav Kličkovič, presbyters Panayotis Karastasios, Miroslav Čolaković, Ivan Štrbački and Dalibor Stojadinović, protodeacons Mladen Kovačević and Radomir Vrućinić, as well as deacons Vladan Tatalović and Đorđe Petrović.

Patriarch Porfirije: We celebrate the Pascha of the Lord, and that means our Pascha. The resurrection of Christ from the dead and in Him our resurrection

His Holiness kyr Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch served the Easter Liturgy at midnight in the Cathedral church of Saint Sava in Vračar, Belgrade (photo gallery).

The Patriarch was concelebrated by His Grace Bishop Stefan of Remesiana, Archimandrite Nektarije, protosynchelloi Danilo and Nektarije, protopresbyter-staurophors Vladimir Vukašinović and Stojadin Pavlović, archpriests Zoran Ranković, Dragan Šovljanski, Predrag Prodić and Đorđe Stojisavljević, synchellos Stojisavljević, synchellos Andronik Dunaev from the Russian Orthodox Church, presbyters Zoran Devrnja and Branislav Kedžić, protodeacons Mladen Kovačević, Dragan Radić and Radomir Vrućinić and deacon Đorđe Petrović. 

Patriarch Porfirije: The Resurrected Lord reveals that the last word in our life and history is love, because He is love!

Also this year His Holiness kyr Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch, spent the happiest feast day, Easter, with the homeless, with whom he had lunch together in a soup kitchen run by the Serbian Orthodox Church. At the festive table set in the yard of the Faith Charitable Guardianship, His Holiness the Patriarch and famous Serbian artists talked with our most endangered fellow citizens.

Patriarch Porfirije served Matin of Holy Saturday

His Holiness kyr Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch, served the Matin of Great Saturday at the  Saint Sava Cathedral Church in Vračar, Belgrade.

In the prayerful presence of His Grace Bishop Stefan of Remesiana, the brotherhood of the church concelebrated to the Patriarch. The service commenced with the Little Vesper  with the Canon to the Crucified Christ, also known as The Lamentation of the Mother of God. Following that the Matin of Great Saturday was served. Afterwards, the Patriarch led a procession with the Shroud around the Church and read a passage from the Gosperl of Matthew.

Patriarch Porfirije: By crucifying Christ, we crucified ourselves (English, Greek)

His Holiness Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of Saint Demetrius in New Belgrade on 23 April 2022  (photo gallery).

The Patriarch was concelebrated by protopresbyter-staurophor Rajko Nedic, archpriests Grigorij Sapsaj, Aleksandar Bajic and Vojislav Kostic, presbyters Marko Kojic, Stevan Vasiljevic, Ivan Faranov and Zoran Nedic, archdeacon Marko (Momcilovic), protodeacon Dragan Radic and Radomir Vrucinic and deacon Nikolaj Sapsaj.

Patriarch Porfirije: Having accepted all the injustices of this world, God has opened the way for us to meaning, to the way to his Kingdom (English, Greek)

His Holiness kyr Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch celebrated the Vesper service with bringing out the Shroud on 22 April 2022, on Holy and Great Friday.