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The Serbian Orthodox Church is in full communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (which holds a special place of honour within Eastern Orthodoxy and serves as the seat for the Ecumenical Patriarch, who enjoys the status of first-among-equals) and all of the mainstream autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church bodies except the ...
The Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo is the third largest religious denomination in Kosovo, after Islam and Roman Catholicism. It has over 140,000 followers in Kosovo, predominantly made up of the Kosovo Serbs , who mostly live in the North Kosovo region and in some enclaves in the south (such as Štrpce ).
Our Lady of Ljeviš (Serbian: Богородица Љевишка, Bogorodica Ljeviška; Albanian: Kisha e Shën Premtës) is a 14th-century Serbian Orthodox church in the town of Prizren, in southern Kosovo. Since 2006, the church is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site named Medieval Monuments in Kosovo.
Eparchy of Raška and Prizren, which includes the region of Raška and whole of Kosovo and Metohija. Eparchy of Raška and Prizren [a] is one of the oldest eparchies of the Serbian Orthodox Church, featuring the seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the Serbian Patriarchal Monastery of Peć, as well as Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Visoki Dečani, which together are part of the UNESCO World ...
15 August 1219: Autocephaly of the Serbian Church (Archbishopric). January 1235: Death of Saint Sava. 1253: Seat moved from Žiča to Peć. 16 April 1346: Elevation to Patriarchate. 1463: de facto abolishment of Serbian Church, under Ecumenical Patriarchate.
The modern Serbian Orthodox Church was established in 1920 after the unification of the Patriarchate of Karlovci and the Metropolitanate of Belgrade. The Serbian Orthodox Church owns many significant Christian relics , such as the right hand of John the Baptist , Saint George 's hand and skull parts, [ 14 ] Holy Cross segments, St. Paraskevi 's ...
Religion classes (Serbian: verska nastava) are organized in public elementary and secondary schools, most commonly coordinated with the Serbian Orthodox Church, but also with the Catholic Church and Islamic community. Public holidays in Serbia also include the religious festivals of Eastern Orthodox Christmas and Easter.
Serbian saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church (2 C, 60 P) Pages in category "Serbian Orthodox Church" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.