Serbian Orthodox Church

Bishop Teodosije of Raska-Prizren

On today's session of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church it has been decided that  vicar Bishop Teodosije of Lipljan to be appointed as Bishop of Raska-Prizren.

Bishop Teodosije, baptized as Zivko Sibalic, was born on June 29, 1963 in Cacak, by father Milan and mother Biljana (born as Jovic), now Sister Marta, a nun.. Upon completing his primary and secondary school in Gorjani and Uzice, he studied theology at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Belgrade, where he graduated. He became novice on January 6, 1987 in the monastery of Crna Reka, near Novi Pazar, where he started a monastic life by the spiritual guidance of the current retired Bishop Artemije of Raska-Prizren. He became a monk on the Patron Saint's Day, Saint Michael the Archangel, on November 21, 1989, and got a monastic name Teodosije after St. Theodosios the Great, the founder of monastic communal life (cenobitism).

Autumn session of the Holy Assembly of Bishops of our Holy Church

Today with a conciliar service of the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Monastery of St. Archangel Michael in Rakovica began the second regular session of the Holy Assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 2010.  

Cemetery in Kosovo and Metochia desecrated

Serbs who visited the cemetery in Dečani, near Medieval famous Serbian monastery in Kosovo and Metochia, to mark the All Souls' Day on Saturday found that the Orthodox graves have been desecrated. This is according to official of the Decani municipal assembly Snežana Paunović. "The previous visit to the Orthodox cemetery was organized on August 28, 2010.

Bishop Atanasije in Western American Diocese

Theme: The Truths of the Gospel in the life of the Church and of the Christians in the Church

• Friday, October 29, 2010: Holy Resurrection Cathedral, Chicago 7:00 p.m. - Lecture
• Sunday, October 31, 2010: St. Petka Seriban Orthodox Church, Escondido - Slava Celebration
• Tuesday, November 2, 2010: Saint Steven's Cathedral Alhambra 7:00 p.m. - Lecture and Dinner (RSVP)

Saint Steven's Cathedral Celebrates Slava with visiting Hierarch, His Eminence Metropolitan Nikitas

His Eminence, Metropolitan Nikitas, Director of the Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Insitute in Berkeley, California, visited Saint Steven's Cathedral on Slava. 

Source: www.westsrbdio.org

100th Anniversary of St. Sava Church in Los Angeles/San Gabriel, October 2nd & 3rd, 2010

• Greetings of the Bishops, Maxim, Joseph, and Benjamin, after the Divine Liturgy at Saint Sava Church, on the one hundred year anniversary of the parish
• Photogallery