Information Service of
the Serbian Orthodox Church
April 26, 2002

BISHOP DANILO OF BUDIM BURRIED TODAY

His Grace Danilo, Bishop of Budim of blessed memory, was buried today in the Monastery dedicated to the Entrance of the Most Holy Mother of God into the Temple at Senjak (part of Belgrade) today. His Holiness Pavle, Serbian Patriarch, served the burial service together with the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops and several hierarchs, priest and monastics of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

In his speech after the burial service Patriarch Pavle pointed out that Bishop Danilo’s departure “left a space in the Serbian Orthodox Church difficult to fulfill for many years in the future, due to Bishop Danilo’s intellectual qualities, but also due to his ability to create friendly atmosphere both in Belgrade, Szentendre or any other place where Bishop Danilo used to spend time, and - not speak, but demonstrate how each of us should serve to God and to our people, so as to fulfil the meaning and the goal of our life”.

“For several years our brother, Bishop Danilo, prepared to serve God and his nation in everything holy and good and worthy of respect, and today he goes before God so that God may grant him reward and recognise and acknowledge him as His faithful servant, and say those well know words: ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.’ We will feel his departure his absence and departure for long, but we do not lose him. We have and we will have a prayerful intercessor before God to pray for us to remain on this path we are pursuing, both we – the bishops and the priests and our whole nation” said the primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church, on Bishop Danilo’s funeral.