Bishop Teodosije of Raska-Prizren

On today's session of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church it has been decided that  vicar Bishop Teodosije of Lipljan to be appointed as Bishop of Raska-Prizren.

Bishop Teodosije, baptized as Zivko Sibalic, was born on June 29, 1963 in Cacak, by father Milan and mother Biljana (born as Jovic), now Sister Marta, a nun.. Upon completing his primary and secondary school in Gorjani and Uzice, he studied theology at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Belgrade, where he graduated. He became novice on January 6, 1987 in the monastery of Crna Reka, near Novi Pazar, where he started a monastic life by the spiritual guidance of the current retired Bishop Artemije of Raska-Prizren. He became a monk on the Patron Saint's Day, Saint Michael the Archangel, on November 21, 1989, and got a monastic name Teodosije after St. Theodosios the Great, the founder of monastic communal life (cenobitism).

RTS: the SOC preserved the Unity

Bishop Teodosije of Raska-Prizren says that intentions of monk Artemije about creating of some so-called "true church" are not real and after all this there are no chance of the schism in the Church.

In the Diocese of Raska and Prizren it is assessed that the attempt of the Bishop Artemije, who was disfrocked, and a group of monks to seize monasteries on the north of Kosovo and Metohija was an unique and unprecedented event in the history of the Serbian Orthodox Church. The RTS crew was in the monastery of Duboki Potok, from where Artemije and his followers were escorted to Kraljevo.

Cemetery in Kosovo and Metochia desecrated

Serbs who visited the cemetery in Dečani, near Medieval famous Serbian monastery in Kosovo and Metochia, to mark the All Souls' Day on Saturday found that the Orthodox graves have been desecrated. This is according to official of the Decani municipal assembly Snežana Paunović. "The previous visit to the Orthodox cemetery was organized on August 28, 2010.

Celebration of St. Thomas Day in Belgrade and commemoration to Ilija Kolarac

His Grace Bishop Atanasije of Hvosno, vicar of Serbian Patriarch, served the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy on the occasion of the Patron's feast day of the church St. Thomas the Apostle on the New graveyard of Bezanija, and after that he served a commemoration in the Cathedral church to the great people's benefactor - Ilija Milosavljevic Kolarac.