The Holy Assembly of Bishops elected His Eminence Metropolitan Porfirije of Zagreb-Ljubljana, PhD, as the new Serbian Patriarch, in its convocation in Memorial Cathedral of Saint Sava in Belgrade on 18 February 2021.

Immediately after the election a thanksgiving service was officiated and Many years was chanted to the Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch Porfirije. Bells at Saint Sava Cathedral in the Vracar district of Belgrade rang a few minutes before 4:00 pm indicating that the 46th Patriarch of Serbia was elected.

O, Lord, grant His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Porfirije to Your Holy Church in peace, safety, honor, health, length of days, and that he may rightly dispense the word of Your Truth! Axios! For many years!

AXIOS!

source: spc.rs

Date: Sunday, 7th February 2021
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Virtually by Zoom: Joining instructions will be provided to those registering for the event (email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

In the time of the Covid pandemic the seventh annual commemoration will focus on those women who died in Serbia, in 1915 nursing Serbian sick and wounded soldiers and civilians during the horrific typhus pandemic.

The Divine Liturgy on the 6th of February 2021, at St Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in London, will be followed by Zadusnice (Requiem), attendance dependent on Covid regulations. We will remember those heroines who sacrificed their lives - Dr Elizabeth Ross(First Reserve Military Hospital, Kragujevac), nurses Louisa Jordan, Augusta Minshull and Bessie Sutherland,orderly Margaret Neill Fraser (Scottish Women's Hospitals) and two members of Mabel Stobart's Field Hospital in Karagujevac - nurse Lorna Ferris and orderly Mabel Dearmer.Their graves are in Kragujevac and at the Military Cemeteryin Nis.

This year we celebrated Saint Sava’s Day by two events

10am Divine Liturgy at the Serbian Orthodox Church in London

7pm St Sava’s Academy (7pm London, 8pm Belgrade, Zoom platform, language: Serbian) - VIDEO
Programme:
Hymn to St. Sava - Zorka Maksimović, Ksenija Šolaja, Marko Gašić (of St. Sava's Church choir, London)
"Importance of St. Sava" - Archimandrite Ilarion Lupulović (monastery Draganac, Kosovo and Metohija)
"Above East and West" - Zorka Maksimović
"St. Sava in the history and tradition of the Serbian people" - Professor Miloš Ković (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)
Ode to St. Sava - Zorka Maksimović, Ksenija Šolaja, Marko Gašić (of St. Sava's Church choir, London)
"The St. Sava Cathedral - past, present and future" - Fresco painters Jovan and Nataša Atanasković (Belgrade) Video 1, Video 2
”Grow, grow my green pine" - Zorka Maksimović

St. Sava's Academy video is available HERE. 

Fellowship of Saint Alypius the Stylite (of Saint Sava's parish in London) organised a scheduled Zoom meeting on Thursday 28th January 2021. The speaker was Fr Christodoulos Christodoulou from the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Nectarios in Battersea, and the topic was Family unity in diversity. The video is available HERE.