The Serbian Patriarch celebrated Liturgy in Cape Town
29. October 2018 - 16:46
Patriarch Irinej in Cape Town: “We should spread the peace that Lord gave us”
His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Cathedral church of Saint Great Martyr George the Victory-bearer in Cape Town, South Africa, on 28 October 2018. The church in Cape Town is under the jurisdiction of the Archbishopric of the Cape of Good Hope of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa. The Patriarch was concelebrated by Metropolitan Sergios of Cape Town, members of the entourage of the Serbian Orthodox Church: Bishop Jovan of Sumadija, protopresbyter-staurophor Dragi Veskovac, hieromonk Amvrosije Vesic and hypodeacon Vladimir Jelic, and other priests.
The Serbian Patriarch consecrated a church in Botswana
28. October 2018 - 15:38
His Holiness the Serbian Patriarch Irinej celebrated on October 27, 2018, on the feast-day of the Venerable Mother St. Paraseceva, a new church dedicated to the first Serbian Archbishop, St. Sava in Gaborone, capital city of the state of Botswana.
During the First Divine Liturgy in the newly-consecrated church His Holiness the Patriarch was concelebrated by the His Excellency Metropolitan Genadios of Gaborone and Botswana - from the Patriarchate of Alexandria and by members of the delegation of the Serbian Orthodox Church: His Grace Bishop Jovan of Sumadija, archpriest-stavrophor Dragi Veskovac, hieromonk Amvrosije Vesic as well as by other clerics, in the presence of the Serbian ambassador in the South African Republic Bozin Nikolic and the Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Botswana Viktor Sibilov, Consul of the Embassy of Serbia in Pretoria Sasha Mart and a large number of Serbs living and working in that part of Africa. The founders of the St. Sava church in Gaborone are Mr. Milivoje Nikolic and his wife Linet, who donated a plot for the construction of the church.
The Feast of Saint Steven in Alhambra, California
26. October 2018 - 12:42
Our Patron Feast Day of Saint Steven, Simon the Monk
For the first time in six years, the actual feast day of the Cathedral’s Patron, Saint Steven the First-crowned/Simon the Monk (October 7), fell on a Sunday and added a special touch to an already special day in the life of this parish community. The feast day began, as it always does in the Church, with Vespers the prior evening; His Grace, our Bishop Maxim, was in attendance in anticipation of also leading us in celebrating the Divine Liturgy the following morning.
Slava Celebration in San Francisco Parish
26. October 2018 - 12:34
On Sunday, September 30, 2018, His Grace Bishop Maxim served Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at St. John the Baptist Serbian Orthodox Cathedral for the celebration of the Cathedral’s Krsna Slava.
Patriarch Irinej: Let us guard our faith and live in love
25. October 2018 - 8:19
The Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church told his compatriots in Africa: "Your Church is taking care of you. Save what is most important - Orthodox faith. Let's leave aside some of the things that may disturb our relations, but let us implement what is eternal - gift and blessing of God to live in love, in a spiritual kinship.
His Holiness the Patriarch of the Serbian Irinej, who visited the church of the Holy Apostle Thomas and the Serbian Church-Church Community of St. Sava in Johannesburg on October 24, 2018, was welcomed by the Archbishop Damascene of Johannesburg and Pretoria and priests of the Serbian Church and from other Orthodox Churches, as well as by the Serbs living in the largest city of South Africa, gathered around the church in St Thomas built in 1978.
