Serbian Orthodox Church

Serbian Patriarch receives medical team of Serbia

His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Kyr Irinej on March 17, 2020, received an expert team of Serbian physicians at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade.

His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Kyr Irinej, realizing the seriousness of the situation, with regard to the presence of the pandemic, will accept the advice of doctors, i.e., infectologists and epidemiologists, and calls upon all citizens of the Republic of Serbia to strictly adhere to the prescribed measures of protection from coronavirus and, relative to the same, he decided by his personal example, as an elderly citizen, to demonstrate how one should sacrifice and adhere to necessary restrictive measures prescribed by experts and State institutions.

Cabinet of the Serbian Patriarchate

On Second Sunday of Great Lent Bishop Milutin celebrated at the Cathedral church

Despite the current coronavirus pandemic and a sort of panic that overwhelms the people, a church of the Resurrection of Christ in Valjevo was full of the faithful on Sunday as in last couple of Sundays. His Grace Bishop Milutin of Valjevo celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy with the concelebration of the local clergy of the Cathedral church.  

Metropolitan Amfilohije: Saint Gregory Palamas – the witness of the light of God

Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy at the monastery of Zdrebeonik near Danilovgrad on 15 March 2020, on Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas. 

Bishop Metodije celebrates in Cetinje Monastery

His Grace Bishop Metodije of Dioclea celebrated the Holy Service at Cetinje Monastery on 15 March 2020, on Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas.

On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Pogrom on Kosovo and Metohia

On the 17^th of March 2019 it is 15 years since from the Kosovo and Metohija, in destructive attacks by Albanian extremists, 4,012 Serbs were expelled, most of them have not still returned to their homes.

In a wave of violence in Kosovo and Metohija 19 people were then killed, eight of them Serbs, while 11 Albanians were killed in the clash with members of the international security forces. At least 170 Serbs were injured as well as dozens of members of the international forces who clashed with local Albanians while protecting Serbs and their property. About 800 Serbian houses were destroyed and 35 religious shrines were burned, including 18 cultural monuments, among which the Church of Our Lady of the Levish in Prizren.

Meeting of Patriarch Irinej with President Vucic concerning coronavirus

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, met with the President of the Republic of Serbia, Mr. Aleksandar Vucic, in Belgrade on 15 March 2020. (photo: predsednik.rs, video: Tanjug)

We are in a special situation while facing a great problem, which is not only our problem but the problem of the whole world, i.e. appearance of the coronavirus. We have not yet experienced the peak of the negative effects of that virus, but we are certainly on that way. It is a great comfort to us that our country is equipped to deal with this phenomenon and that it will undertake all the measures to resist the negative effects of theterrible virus, which, as we can see, has been threatening people all over the world, said Patriarch Irinej and added: