Vicar Bishop of South America Visits Phoenix, Arizona
1. February 2018 - 16:28
This year’s annual Patronal Feast Day – Slava Celebration on Sunday, January 28th, 2018 at St Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in Phoenix, Arizona, was very special in many ways, but most of all on the account of the visit of their Graces Bishop Maksim and Bishop Kirilo.
Bishop Kirilo was elected as hierarch almost four years ago as a Vicar Bishop to His Eminence Amfilohije of Montenegro, with a special appointment to take care of our Church in South America, for the first time visited Phoenix as a part of his larger North American tour.
Bishop Grigorije celebrated Liturgy in Paris on the feast-day of Saint Sava
31. January 2018 - 14:11
On Saturday, January 27th, on the feast-day of Saint Sava, as well as on the Sunday of January 28th, 2018, upon the invitation of Bishop Luka of Western Europe, His Grace Bishop Grigorije of Zahumlje-Herzegovina officiated the Divine Liturgy in Paris.
In the Paris church dedicated to Saint Sava, the Eucharistic celebration was marked with the ordination of Deacon Nenad Ilic as presbyter, who is to serve as a parish priest in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
A high officer of the United Nations received by the Serbian Patriarch
31. January 2018 - 12:22
His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch received Mr. Adam Dieng, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade on January 30th, 2018.
The aim of the visit was familiarization with the current challenges in the field of reconciliation in the region, as well as finding ways how to overcome ethnic and religious divisions for the aim of building up a common future of the peoples in the Balkans.
Patronal Celebration of Saint Sava in Los Angeles
1. February 2018 - 9:32
A brisk sunny morning has dawned on Januuary 27th, 2018, when the Serbian Church liturgically commemorates the greatest enlightener and the First Archbishop of Serbia, Saint Sava.
In Saint Sava’s Parish of Los Angeles, created through equal to the apostolic efforts of Saint Sebastian Dabovic in 1909, final preparations for the celebration of the one who, for centuries, has been teaching and inspiring Serbs all around the globe how to remain on “the path that leads to Life” (according to his troparion), were being executed in haste.
“Jasenovac – The Right to Remembrance”
31. January 2018 - 16:14
On Thursday, January 25, 2018, His Excellency Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic opened “Jasenovac – The Right to Remembrance” Exhibition at the United Nations in New York City.
Present for the opening were His Grace Bishop Irinej of Eastern America, Their Excellencies Ambassador Djerdj Matkovic of the Embassy of Serbia to the United States of America, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Milan Milanovic, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Serbia to the United Nations, as well as the Honorable Consul General of Serbia to the United States. Numerous members of other Diplomatic and Consular Corps were also present, as well as academics, artists and other dignitaries. Most notable was the presence and living testimony of survivors of fascist-operated concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II, including those incarcerated in children’s camps.
