In the period from October 9th to 13th 2022, a group of parishioners of the Church of St. Sava from London, went on a pilgrimage to the Hilandar monastery on Mount Athos. The group was led by Archpriest Dragan Lazić. This trip, like the previous one in 2019, had a devotional character. The pilgrims got acquainted with the spiritual wealth, shrines, and cultural-historical heritage of the Serbian people on this peninsula. In addition to Mount Athos, pilgrims also saw a couple of sights of the city of Thessaloniki.

On 14 October 2022, on the Feast of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos, His Holiness Serbian Patriarch kyr Porfirije was enthroned to the most holy Throne of the Archbishops of Peć and Patriarchs of Serbia. His Holiness Serbian Patriarch kyr Porfirije presided over the Holy Liturgy in the ancient monastery of the Patriarchate of Peć. At the end of the solemn service, according to the traditional akolouthia, His Holiness kyr Porfirije was ceremonially enthroned on the most holy Throne of the Archbishops of Peć and Patriarchs of Serbia.

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On Saturday 15 October 2022 at Bishop Nikolaj Community Centre, 89 Lancaster Road, London W11 1QQ, there was a meeting of the Round Table, which was attended by Mr Stefan Morovic, Assistant Director the Office for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region, and Mr Vladimir Koturovic, an Independent Consultant. This was an opportunity for Mr Morovic and Mr Koturovic to learn more about the British Serbian Diaspora community, its achievements, its priorities and its concerns. This was followed by an Award Ceremony where Prof. Vesna Goldsworthy, our famous writer and poet and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, presented the certificates to students who have successfully completed the Round Table - Azbukum Serbian language courses. The event closed with a cultural evening showcasing the talents of British Serbian artists.

Bishop Dositej's condolence letter can be found HERE. 

The completely unjustified mentioning of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Resolution of the European Parliament on foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation, based solely on deep historical prejudices and tendentiously created stereotypes is not surprising, but is, indeed, deeply disappointing for us.

Putting the Serbian Orthodox Church into the role of the cause of “tensions between ethnic groups in the Western Balkans in order to inflame conflicts and divide communities” is completely contrary to the facts and the commitment of the Church in everyday life, and we therefore firmly reject such a position.

The Church incessantly prays for peace, builds peace and encourages her faithful people to heal the wounds of the past, to improve trust and build bridges of cooperation with the neighbors, regardless of how they pray or to which nation they belong to.

The Diocese of Raška and Prizren (Serbian Orthodox Church) expresses open outrage and protest over the latest statement of Mr. Albin Kurti (February 17), in which he again openly undermined the decision of the Kosovo Constitutional Court regarding 24 hectares of land, which was recognized as the property of the Visoki Dečani monastery by the Constitutional Court of Kosovo in 2016. Persistent violations of the rule of law and opposition to the Constitutional Court’s ruling in the Visoki Dečani case, which was made after 15 years of detailed court proceedings with full international monitoring and finally resolved in 2016, is more characteristic of autocracy than a society which at least declaratively promotes rule of law and democracy. Inflammatory political rhetoric which creates ethnic and religious antagonism further deepens the gap between Kosovo Albanian institutions and the Serbian people, especially the Serbian Orthodox Church which is being attacked by unprecedented slanders. This example shows that this region is moving not in the direction of democracy and peaceful coexistence of all communities but towards legal lawlessness and creation of an ethnic clean K/Albanian territory, where all traces of Serbian history, property and everything related to the Serbian people is being brutally erased, despite all legal provisions, international guarantees and presence.