Serbian Orthodox Church

86th Annual Memorial to Pupin

On Sunday, March 14, 2021, His Grace Bishop Irinej of Eastern America, at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, in New York, with the concelebration of Protopresbyter Djokan Majstorovic, Presbyter Milan Dragovic and Protodeacon Milos Zdralic, served a memorial service at the grave of Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin.

The Consul of Serbia in New York, Mrs. Olgica Vlacic, together with representatives of the Embassy of Serbia from Washington, DC, laid flowers at the grave of Mihajlo Pupin and his wife Sara Catharine. Numerous distinguished visitors to Woodlawn Cemetery, Orthodox Serbs and others, local and international, regularly pay their respects at the grave of this great son of Serbia.

Resolution of the 2021 Annual Diocesan Assembly of Eastern America

IN THE NAME OF THE ALL HOLY AND LIFEGIVING TRINITY!
We, the clergy, monastics, and representatives of the people of God, ordained and elected members to the Annual Assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Eastern America have gathered together for the Virtual Annual Assembly of the God-protected Diocese of Eastern America of the Serbian Orthodox Church
on March 13, in the Year of Our Lord 2021 Honoring the 100^th Anniversary of the First Serbian Orthodox Diocese in the United States of America and Canada 1921-2021

Today, as we celebrate the memory of the Venerable Basil the Confessor and the Venerable John Cassian, the Holy Spirit has gathered us in the community of the Body of Christ that He might bring us closer to our Heavenly Father. Having manifested the fullness of God’s Holy Church, gathered around our Bishop, Father and Archpastor Irinej, we greet the fullness of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the person of His Holiness, the newly elected and newly enthroned Archbishop of Pech, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovci, and Serbian Patriarch Kyr PORFIRIJE.

Archbishop Jovan officiated the Liturgy in Saint John Chrysostom Monastery

His Beatitude Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje Mr. Jovan officiated the Holy Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts in the Stauropegial Monastery of Saint John Chrysostom in Bitola. 

Canonical visit to Minnesota

His Grace Bishop Longin of New Gracanica-Midwestern America in canonical visit to parishes in Minnesota

Serbs emigrated to Minnesota at the turn of the 20th century and settled in three highly industrialized areas.: The Iron Range, Duluth and the St. Paul-Minneapolis metropolitan area (The Тwin Cities). In all these regions, Serbs built their churches.

Tonsures in the Monastery of Privina Glava

According to Radio Slovo Ljubve, in the monastery of Privina Glava near Sid on March 13, 2021, on the Eve of the beginning of Lent, His Grace Bishop Vasilije of Srem tonsured five novices.

The newly tonsured nuns were given the names: Natalija, Apolinarija, Pelagija, Vasilija and Hristina, while Father Makarije was appointed abbot of this shrine dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel. 

Churches of the Diocese of Raska and Prizren targeted in recent string of burglaries and thefts

In the past few weeks, burglaries and thefts of Orthodox churches have taken place on the territory of the Diocese of Raska and Prizren.

In the last ten days alone, six of our churches and church buildings have been burglarized and looted. According to the reports submitted to the Diocese by parish priests, the break-ins took place at the following locations: