Serbian Orthodox Church

The Enthronement Speech of Serbian Patriarch Porfirije in Memorial Cathedral of Saint Sava in Belgrade

The Enthronement Speech of Serbian Patriarch Porfirije  in the Memorial Cathedral of Saint Sava in Belgrade on February 19, 2021.

Your Eminences and Graces Brothers hierarchs, High Venerable Archimandrites, High venerable abbesses, Venerable fathers, monks and nuns, Very Reverend fathers,

Your Excellencies: President of the Republic of Serbia Mr. Aleksandar Vucic, Serbian member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Mr. Milorad Dodik, President of Republika Srpska Mrs. Zeljka Cvijanovic, President of the Government of Republika Srpska Mr. Radovan Viskovic, gentlemen generals – representatives of the Armed Forces of Serbia,

Patriarch Porfirije meets with President Vucic

His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, received President of the Republic of Serbia Mr. Aleksandar Vucic at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade on 19 February 2021.

His Holiness Porfirije, Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch enthroned

The bells of the Cathedral church of the Holy Archangel Michael in Belgrade rang at 11.25 am, indicating that the 46th head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Porfirije, Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci and the Serbian Patriarch was enthroned.

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The solemn act of enthronement of the newly-elected Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch Porfirije began with the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Cathedral church of Holy Archangel Michael in Belgrade on February 19, 2021. The Holy Liturgy is officiated by the newly-elected first hierarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, with the concelebration of the hierarchs summoned at the Electoral Assembly of Bishops, clergy, and faithful people.

Enthronement of the Serbian Patriarch Porfirije

The solemn act of enthronement of the newly elected Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch Porfirije began with the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Cathedral church of Holy Archangel Michael in Belgrade on February 19, 2021.

The Holy Liturgy is officiated by the newly elected first hierarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, with the concelebration of the hierarchs, clergy, and faithful people.

Biography of Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch Porfirije (Peric)

Newly-elected Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch Porfirije (Peric) was born on 22 July 1961 in Becej, northern Serbia.

He was the first of three children of Radivoje and Radojka Peric. He was baptized as Prvoslav. He finished primary school in Curug, and the “Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj” Grammar school in Novi Sad. He was ordained a monk according to the rite of small schime by his spiritual father, then hieromonk Dr. Irinej (Bulovic), at Decani Monastery in 1985.

Enthronement of the Serbian Patriarch Porfirije in the Cathedral church in Belgrade

Enthronement of the Serbian Patriarch Porfirije in the Cathedral church in Belgrade

Holy Hierarchal Liturgy, at which the solemn act of enthronement of His Holiness Porfirije into the holiest throne of the Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovci and Patriarch of Serbia will be celebrated in the Belgrade’s Cathedral church of Holy Archangel Michael, beginning at 9 am, on February 19, 2021.

The public will be informed in due time about the date of the solemn introduction into the throne of Serbian Patriarchs in the Patriarchate of Pec, the historical seat of the Primates of the Serbian Orthodox Church.