Serbian Orthodox Church
Patriarch Irinej: Let us guard our faith and live in love
25. October 2018 - 8:19
The Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church told his compatriots in Africa: "Your Church is taking care of you. Save what is most important - Orthodox faith. Let's leave aside some of the things that may disturb our relations, but let us implement what is eternal - gift and blessing of God to live in love, in a spiritual kinship.
His Holiness the Patriarch of the Serbian Irinej, who visited the church of the Holy Apostle Thomas and the Serbian Church-Church Community of St. Sava in Johannesburg on October 24, 2018, was welcomed by the Archbishop Damascene of Johannesburg and Pretoria and priests of the Serbian Church and from other Orthodox Churches, as well as by the Serbs living in the largest city of South Africa, gathered around the church in St Thomas built in 1978.
Serbian Patriarch Irinej arrived in Johannesburg
25. October 2018 - 8:18
His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irinej visited the church of the Holy Apostle Thomas and the Serbian Church-Church Community of St. Sava in Johannesburg on October 24, 2018.
The Serbian Patriarch has herewith started his visit to the South African Republic and Botswana that will last until November 4, 2018.
In Memory of the Holy New Martyrs of Kragujevac
22. October 2018 - 21:41
Almost eight decades ago Kragujevac and its surroundings were a place of one of the bloodiest crimes in the Second World War.
In retaliation, fascist’s soldiers in a few days shot more than a thousand of innocent civilians including quite a number of school children. The reason for the shooting were German losses in the fight with partisan units on the road Kragujevac – Gornji Milanovac on 16 October 1941.
Thousands of the faithful venerated Tuman’s wonderworker Jakov
22. October 2018 - 21:38
The feast-day of Venerable Jakov the Wonderworker of Tumane was solemnly celebrated.
On the feast-day of finding of relics of Holy Jakov the New, on 21 October 2018 in the monastery of Tumane, more than a thousand of the faithful gathered from all parts of the Balkans, who wanted to venerate the new-shining saint. Abbot of Tumane Dimitrije celebrated the holy Liturgy with his brotherhood and clergymen from many dioceses of the Holy Serbian Church
Patriarchs John and Irinej received by the Serbian President Vucic
19. October 2018 - 22:00
His Excellency Aleksandar Vucic, President of the Republic of Serbia, received in audience His Beatitude John, Patriarch of Antioch and all East, and His Holiness Patriarch of the Serbian Irinej in the Presidency of the Republic of Serbia on October 19, 2018.
The reception was attended by dignitaries of the Patriarchate of Antioch: Their Eminences Metropolitan Basil of Accra and Joseph of New York and North America as well as by Very Venerable Archimandrites Prokopius, Parthenius and Alexius. The Serbian delegation consisted of His Eminence Metropolitan Porfirije of Zagreb-Ljubljana and Their Graces Bishops, Irinej of Backa and Jovan of Sumadija, as well as by the Secretary General of the President of the Republic of Serbia, Nikola Selakovic.
Patriarch John of Antioch in the Diocese of Nis
19. October 2018 - 21:57
During his historic visit to the Serbian Orthodox Church, His Beatitude Patriarch of Antioch and All East John X, accompanied by His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irinej, visited the city of Nis on October 18, 2018.
A solemn welcome in the church-yard of the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit was headed by His Grace Arsenije, Bishop of Nis, with participation of clergy and monastics of the Diocese of Nis, faithful people, members of the Army and Gendarmerie, pupils of the local Theological School and a large number of school children, in presence of mayors of the cities of Nis, Pirot and Prokuplje, and of the Nis Municipalities, commander of the Army of the city, commander of the Gendarmerie, commander of Police, and other regional and city officials.
