Directives on Implementing the 03.28.20 Communique
8. April 2020 - 12:17
To our Most Beloved Clergy, Monastics and Faithful
of the God-protected Diocese of Eastern America of the Serbian Orthodox Church
The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church on the basis of its official Act No. 254/1 of March 28, 2020, has issued a formal Communiqué (attached), which clearly and unambiguously states that all divine services in churches and in the open air are to be celebrated without the presence of faithful. Though this directive is put forth at the urging of the Government of Serbia, the same has already been in effect in many states in our Diocese and in the United States of America, as well as most locations throughout the world.
Metropolitanate of Montenegro-Coastland supports hospitals to combat pandemics
7. April 2020 - 12:56
A financial support has been donated for technical equipment necessary for functioning of health care institutions, so that Montenegro can better deal with the situation caused by the present pandemics.
More precisely, funds were paid for seven monitors and syringe pumps for the hospitals in Cetinje and Niksic respectively, and the other ones for the Clinical Center in Podgorica.
Serbian Patriarch celebrated Liturgy in Vavedenje Monastery, Belgrade
7. April 2020 - 13:42
His Holiness Patriarch Serbian Irinej officiated Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great at the Convent of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Belgrade, on the Fifth Sunday of Lent, April 5, 2020, offering his prayers for the salvation of all.
In accordance with the new state of emergency caused by the pandemic of the corona virus, His Holiness the Patriarch was concelebrated only by a priest and without presence of the faithful, observing the message that in our homes, which are “churches at home” (Philem 2), we should intensify our prayers to the Lord.
Bishop Milutin of Valjevo, Serbia, reposed in the Lord
30. March 2020 - 12:50
With great sorrow, and faith in resurrection to the Kingdom of Heaven, the Diocese of Valjevo publically announces that last evening, March 30th, 2020, their spiritual father, His Grace Bishop Milutin of Valjevo, reposed at the Dr Dragisa Misovic Hospital in Belgrade, following a short period of hospitalization brought on by the coronavirus.
May our Lord grant him the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal repose!
Biography of Bishop Milutin of Valjevo of blessed repose
30. March 2020 - 10:29
Serbian Orthodox Bishop Milutin of Valjevo died after a short period of hospitalization due to the coronavirus at a Belgrade hospital on the 30th March of 2020.
Bishop Milutin (baptismal name Mihailo Knezevic) was born near Valjevo in 1949, and was baptized in the renowned monastery of Pustinja. Having finished Elementary school, Mihailo joined the monastery of Kaona when he was only 14, and later on was tonsured as monk by the late Bishop of Sabac-Valjevo Jovan (Velimirovic) in the monastery of Petkovica on the 26 October 1963, and got the monastic name of Milutin, according to a medieval Serbian King, one of the greatest founders of monasteries in Serbia. On the next day he was ordained as hierodeacon, and some time later as hieromonk at Osecina, near Valjevo.
