Serbian Orthodox Church

Thanksgiving on the beginning of the New Year

His Grace vicar Bishop Atanasije of Hvosno served tonight in the church of St. Sava on Vracar thanksgiving on the beginning of the New Year, after that at midnight the traditional New Year's firework lit up the Saint Sava's Plateau and the Serbian capital.

Slava of the First Belgrade Singing Society

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch served today, on the feast day of St. Basil the Great, the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in Belgrade's Cathedral church, during which cut the slava cake of the First Belgrade's Singing Society.

Christmas reception in Podgorica

Archbishop of Cetinje and Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral kyr Amfilohije prepared yesterday at the Green salon of the Hotel "Crna Gora" in Podgorica the traditional Christmas reception for representatives of the diplomatic corps, religious, cultural and public life in Montenegro.

Christmas services of Bishop Konstantin

On Christmas Eve and Christmas, His Grace Bishop Konstantin of Middle Europe served in the church of the monastery of Most Holy Theotokos in Himelstir. The Bishop served the vigil service on Christmas Eve with the concelebration of protosyngellos Sergey (Paraklis), the head of the Monastery. In this church Bishop Konstantin served on Christmas. On the Synaxis of the Most Holy Theotokos His Grace Bishop served the Divine Liturgy in Essen. The occasion of this visit was a church slava, St. First Martyr and Hierodeacon Stephen.

Source: Diocese of Middle Europe

Christmas holidays in Montenegro

Christmas Eve - Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral served the Divine Liturgy in the Cetinje monastery and during which family Atkovic was baptized. Bishop in early afternoon blessed and lighted the Yule logs in the monastery of Saint Nicholas at Obod Crnojevica. The Metropolitan blessed and set to fire Yule logs in front of the Cetinje monastery which was also this year brought, according to the tradition, by the representatives of all tribes and parts from the Littoral, Boka, Old Montenegro, Zeta, Brdo, and Old Herzegovina. According to the old many-centuries custom the first badnjak was brought by the Bajica tribe - the Martinovics and the Borilovics.

Christmas and New Year's reception in the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade