Serbian Orthodox Church

Ten years of Episcopal Ministry of Bishop Ilarion of the Timok

On the tenth day of August of the year of the Lord 2014, history of the God-guarded Diocese of the Timok was recorded in golden letters.

On that day, when our Holy Church offers prayers to the memory of Deacons Prohor, Nikanor, Timon and Parmen, decision of the Holy Bishops' Assembly was implemented, taken in May of the same year, by which Very Venerable archimandrite Ilarion (Golubovic) was elected Bishop of the Timok area  (Eastern Serbia), as former abbot of the Monastery of St. Nicholas at Bukovo.

Memory services for the souls of victims all over the Slavonia Diocese

Throughout the Diocese of Slavonia, memory prayer services for the killed by the Ustashas in 1942 were peformed. Prayer gatherings took place in Kusonje, Japaga, Branesci, Dereza and Tornj.

On August 13, 1942, the Orthodox Serbs of the Slavonian town of Kusonje were taken by the Ustashas and brought into the church of St. Great Martyr George, from where most of the martyrs were taken to two nearby wells to be bestially killed and thrown into them. Several Serbs were imprisoned in the church itself, which was then burned down.

College student retreat 2019 – Midwest Diocese

The day started off with registration and pitch-in luncheon. Following lunch there were three short but profound presentations on faith and science. At 5 PM we all went to Vespers at the St. Sava Monastery in Libertyville to be blessed by our first Bishop on this continent – St. Mardarije, whose incorrupt relics are at the monastery. Surrounded by one of the oldest cemeteries in United States, we realized it needed some TLC, so we went around collecting 30 bags of trash.

Serbian Patriarch celebrated Liturgy on St. Panteleimon’s Day

His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irinej officiated on 9 August 2019, on the occasion of the patron saint day, the Holy hierarchal Liturgy in the church of the Holy Martyr and Healer Panteleimon in Mirijevo, Belgrade suburb.

The archpriests-stavrophors Dragan Stanisic, Tode Jeftenic and Nedeljko Bozic, archpriests Milenko Karan and Milos Micic, hieromonk Amvrosije (Vesic), priest Arsen Milovanovic, protodeacons Radomir Percevic and Stevan Rapajic as well as deacons Dragan Tanasijevic and Nikola concelebrated.

The 100th anniversary of the church in Lapovo

The Holy hierarchal Liturgy was officiated by  Bishop Jovan of Sumadia on August 11, 2019 on  the 100th anniversary of the consecration of St. Paraskeva church in Lapovo, Serbia.

Among the priests who served with the Bishop were retired parish priests of Lapovo, archpriests-stavrophors Srboljub Markovic and Milenko Stikic, as well as a retired Belgrade priest, protoresbyter-stavrophor Milan Radovanovic, a native of Lapovo.

Serbian Bishop Niakanor celebrated in Timisoara

On the eighth Sunday after Pentecost, August 11, 2019, with the blessing of His Grace Bishop of Buda (Hungary) and the administrator of Timisoara, the Holy hierarchal Liturgy in the Cathedral Church in Timisoara was celebrated by His Grace Nikanor, Bishop of Banat.

The clergy of the dioceses of Timisoara, Buda and Banat concelebrated in the prayerful presence of Bishop Lukian.