Serbian Orthodox Church

The Feast Day of Saint Sebastian of Jackson In the Year 2020 of Our Lord

The year behind us was remarkable in so many ways, and, much the same, this year’s celebration of our holy father Sebastian of Jackson was no exception.

Devotees and pilgrims from his ancestral Herceg Novi, Jackson’s sister city, from his native San Francisco, from Los Angeles, where he founded the first church and served therein, as well as from other parts of California and the United States of America, unfortunately could not fulfill their great wish this year to visit Jackson again on the day of its Patron Saint. However, it was precisely in their absence that we felt their presence perhaps even more strongly than in the previous years. Filling the half-empty church with their countenances, within our hearts and with our spiritual sight, we pondered how grateful we had been for each other in the past, how much we appreciated and nurtured our dearly paid unity in the Body and Blood of Christ, crucified and shed for us? How much had we valued Time as a gift, how wisely had we used it, redeemed and sanctified it with our lives, or had we delayed our repentance and reconciliation while forgetting that we do not know the day or the hour that our earthly journey will come to its end? Now, at a time with far fewer of us being physically present in the church, each face shone before us as the living icon of God, and those who were absent seemed closer and dearer than ever before.

Bishop Jovan: Freedom is in responsibility, we must not do what we want!

His Grace Jovan, Bishop of Sumadija and administrator of the Archbishopric of Belgrade and Karlovac, officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church dedicated to that holy Russian price, in the Dorcol district, in Belgrade, on 6 December 2020, on the day of blessed repose of Saint Alexander  Nevsky

 At the end of the eucharistic gathering, Bishop Jovan blessed the slava offerings with the faithful people and members of the choir at the church of St. Alexander Nevsky, who observed  its  Patron Saint-day.

Bishop Siluan visited the parish in St. Albans

His Grace Siluan, Sebian Orthodox Bishop in Australia,  visited the parish of the Holy Great Martyr George in St. Albans. The Vesper service was performed by the parish priest, protopresbyter-stavrophor Borislav Petrovic, with co-celebration of protodeacon Miodrag Tomic and readers of the Melbourne Deanery, while protopresbyter-stavrophor Petar Damnjanovic chanted responses.

Forty-day memorial service for Metropolitan Amfilohije

Hierarchal Liturgy with the forty-day memorial service for Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral of blessed repose was celebrated in the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Podgorica. on December 6, 2020, on the feast day of St. Amphilochius of Iconium.

Their Graces Bishops Joanikije of Budimlye-Niksic and the administrator of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral, Kiril of Buenos Aires and South-Central America, the Vicar Bishop Metodije of Dioclea, and the retired Athanasius of Zaholml-Herzegovina concelebrated, togather with numerous priests and  ordained monastics.

Source: Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral

Press Release

Press Release

His Eminence Metropolitan Hrizostom of Dabar-Bosnia, Locum Tenens of the Serbian Church Patriarchal Throne, due to a positive result of testing for COVID-19, was admitted to the Clinical Hospital Center "Dr Dragisa Misovic" in Belgrade in the evening on December 4, 2020.

His Eminence Metropolitan Hrizostom, Locum Tenens of the Patriarchal Throne, celebrated the Holy Liturgy in the Pec Patriarchate

His Eminence Metropolitan Hrizostom of Dabar-Bosnia, Locum Tenens of the Patriarchal Throne, celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Pec Patriarchate on the feast day of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple, on 4 December 2020.  

At the end of the Liturgy, the Metropolitan served the memorial service for Serbian Patriarch Irinej and Metropolitan Amfilohije of blessed repose. The choir of the pupils of the Seminary of Prizren sang responses.