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Dveri were founded by Branimir Nešić in 1999 as a Christian right-wing youth organisation consisting mainly of students from the University of Belgrade which regularly arranged public debates devoted to the popularisation of clerical-nationalist philosophy of Nikolaj Velimirović, [1] a bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church who was canonised in 2003 and is considered a major anti-Western ...
The executive body of the Serbian Orthodox Church is the Holy Synod. It has five members: four bishops and the patriarch. [114] The Holy Synod takes care of the everyday operation of the church, holding meetings on regular basis. Eparchies of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Serbian autochthonous region of Western Balkans
Eparchies of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North America. The Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America (Serbian: Српска православна црква у Северној и Јужној Америци, Srpska pravoslavna crkva u Severnoy i Južnoj Americi) is a constituent and integral part of the one and only Serbian Orthodox Church (Patriarchate) and therefore the ...
The formal agreement was signed on 14 December 2007 with Serbian Orthodox Church represented by the Metropolitan Bishop of Montenegro and the Littoral Amfilohije Radović and state institutions by the Minister of Culture and Information Vojislav Brajović and the director of the Archive of Serbia Miroslav Perišić. [5]
The Serbian True Orthodox Church (STOC; Serbian: Српска истинска православна црква, СИПЦ, Srpska istinska pravoslavna crkva, SIPC) is a denomination that separated from the larger Serbian Orthodox Church in 1996. Its founder and current leader is bishop Akakije (Stankovic). [3]
Under Ottoman rule, Serbian Christians were forced to pay religious taxes and were treated as second-class citizens. Following partial independence in 1815, the Serbian Orthodox Church was reestablished. Prince Miloš Obrenović, the head of state, supported policies that promoted secularism in order to curb the Church's power over his ...
In late December 2019, a wave of protests started against the controversial, newly adopted "Law on Freedom of Religion or Belief and the Legal Status of Religious Communities" which effectively transferred ownership of church buildings and estates built before 1918 (when the Kingdom of Montenegro was abolished and annexed by Kingdom of Serbia) [3] from the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro ...
The Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church (Serbian: Свети архијерејски синод Српске православне цркве, romanized: Sveti arhijerejski sinod Srpske pravoslavne crkve) serves by Church constitution as the executive body of the Serbian Orthodox Church.