Serbian Orthodox Church

A high officer of the United Nations received by the Serbian Patriarch

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch received Mr. Adam Dieng, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade on January 30^th, 2018.

The aim of the visit was familiarization with the current challenges in the field of reconciliation in the region, as well as finding ways how  to overcome ethnic and religious divisions for the aim of building up a common future of the peoples in the Balkans.

Saint Sava marked in Trebinje, Herzegovina

The Saint Sava feast was solemnly celebrated with a liturgical gathering in the Cathedral church in Trebinje. After the Holy Liturgy, the children from the Trebinje kindergartens performed a suitable program, singing joyfully and reciting poems dedicated to Saint Sava. Packages were distributed to the children.

Bishop Irinej of Eastern America visits Saint Nicholas in Philadelphia

On the Sunday after Theophany, St. Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church in Philadelphia was blessed to have His Grace, Rt. Rev. Irinej, celebrate the Divine Liturgy.

Saint Sava's Day in Nis

On the feast day of Saint Sava, 27 January 2018, His Grace Bishop Arsenije of Nis officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy at the church of the Descent of Holy Spirit onto Apostles in Nis. His Grace was concelebrated by the clergy of the church. After the Liturgy His Grace blessed the slava cake at the Faculty of Economics and at a primary school Saint Sava in Nis. 

St. Sava celebrated at Gorazdevac near Pec, Kosovo and Metochia

The feast-day of the first Serbian Archbishop Saint Sava was marked by the Divine Liturgy celebrated by the Dechani monks, who after the Liturgy attended the most gentle school performance in the village of Goprazdevac near Pec.

Celebrations of the feast of Saint Sava, the First Serbian Archbishop, in Belgrade

On the feast-day of the Venerable and the God-Bearer our Father Sava, the First Serbian Archbishop, His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the crypt of the Memorial Cathedral of Saint Sava.

His Holiness was concelebrated by the abbot of the monastery of the Mother of God the Three-handed in Bogostica , Archimandrite Nifont, Principal of Saint Sava’s Cathedral, Archimandrite Stefan, General Secretary of the Holy Synod of Bishops protopresbyter-staurophor Savo B. Jovic,PhD aas well as other clergimen.