Press release on the occasion of the celebration of the Patron Saint-day of the City of Belgrade

His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, will celebrate the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy with the act of blessing of slava gifts in Belgrade's Ascension Church on June 10, 2021, on the feast of the Ascension of the Lord -  Ascension Day. The host of this year's Patron Saint-day of the city is the Mayor of Belgrade, Professor Dr. Zoran Radojicic.

The solemn slava procession which will be led by His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, with hundreds of priests, members of all Belgrade church choirs, and representatives of various city services, will leave at 7 pm from the Ascension Church through Prince Milos and King Milan streets, across Slavija Square and Liberation Boulevard to the Saint Sava Cathedral in the Vracar district, where His Holiness will serve a prayer of supplication for Belgrade and its inhabitants. We invite the pious people of the Serbian capital to take part prayerfully in the celebration of the Patron Saint-day of the City of Belgrade.