Working visit to Saint Sava Cathedral in the Vracar district
26. December 2020 - 15:37
His Eminence Metropolitan Hrizostom of Dabar-Bosnia and Mr. Nikola Selakovic, Minister of Foreign Affairs paid an official visit to the Saint Sava Cathedral in the Vracar district, in Belgrade on 25 December 2020.
The high guests were welcomed by His Grace Bishop Stefan of Remesiana, head of the Saint Sava Cathedral, with hard-working enthusiasts on the construction of the Memorial Cathedral of the Serbian people.
Bishop Fotije served a memorial service for Patriarch Irinej
25. December 2020 - 12:45
His Grace Bishop Fotije of Zvornik-Tuzla served a memorial service for Serbian Patriarch Irinej of blessed repose in the crypt of the Saint Sava Cathedral in the Vracar district, Belgrade on 24 December 2020, on the feast day of Saint Daniel the Stylite.
With the blessing of His Grace Bishop Jovan of Sumadia and the Administrator of the Archbishopric of Belgrade-Karlovac, and His Grace Bishop Stefan of Remesiana, head of the Saint Sava Cathedral, His Grace Bishop Fotije of Zvornik-Tuzla served the memorial service for Patriarch Irinej of blessed repose on his tomb in the crypt of the Memorial Cathedral in the Vracar District.
Christmas Greeting of the Information Service of the Serbian Orthodox Church
24. December 2020 - 14:07
The Information Service of the Serbian Orthodox Church congratulates the feast of the Birth of the Divine God-Child to believers and clergy of the Christian Churches which celebrate Christmas according to Gregorian calendar and greets them with the traditional greeting:
CHRIST IS BORN! - HE IS BORN INDEED!
30th anniversary of enthronement of His Grace Bishop Irinej of Backa, PhD
24. December 2020 - 14:05
The thirtieth anniversary of the enthronement of His Grace Bishop Irinej of Backa, PhD, was marked on 23 December 2020. At the regular session of the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1989, hieromonk Irinej was elected as Vicar Bishop of the Serbian Patriarch, with a title of Bishop of Moravica, and following the consecration at the Patriarchate of Pec, on 20 May 2020, he was elected Bishop of Backa and was enthroned in Novi Sad, in December of the same year.
His Grace Bishop of Novi Sad and Backa, Irinej, PhD was born on 11 February 1947 by parents Mihailo and Zorka Bulovic in Stanisici, in Backa, receiving baptismal name Mirko. He finished the primary school in his birthplace and the grammar school in Sombor in 1965. He graduated in 1969 at the Faculty of Theology of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade.
Protopresbyter-staurophor Velibor Dzomic: Election of the Patriarch and epidemics - church-legal analysis
23. December 2020 - 13:01
The question * of the date of the election session of the Holy Assembly of Bishops at which the 46th Serbian Patriarch should be elected is primarily a church issue and primarily concerns the bishops, clergy, monastics and the faithful of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Having in mind the importance of the Saint Sava throne, as well as the dignity and role of the Serbian Patriarch on a wider level, the issue of electing the Serbian Patriarch, with which the issue of the date of the election session of the Holy Synod of Bishops is connected, has a wider, social significance, and exceeds the framework of Serbia.
