List of heads of Serbian Orthodox Church: Early history The Serbs migrated to the Balkans during the reign of Byzantine emperor Heraclius (610-641). ...
In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop heading a diocese of particular importance due to either its size, history, or both, called an archdiocese. ... Saint Sava (1175 or 1176 - January 12, 1235 or 1236), originally the prince Rastko Nemanjic (son of the Serbian king Stefan Nemanja and brother of Stefan Prvovencani, founder of the Serbian medieval state), is the first Serb archbishop (1219-1233) and the most important saint in the Serbian Orthodox Church. ... Saint Danilo II the Serb (Свети Данило II српски) is a saint of the Serbian Orthodox Church. ...
-1... Patriarch Pavle On December 1, 1990, the election of Bishop Pavle as the Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovac and Serbian Patriarch was met with great joy and expectation, both by clergy and laity. ...
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http://www.sumadinac.de/arhijereji/arhijereji.html - pages on most of them (in Serbian)
The spiritual leader of the Serbian Orthodox people was born September 11, 1914 to Stefan and Ann Stojcevic, in the village of Kucani, in the county of Donji Miholjac, in Slavonija.
Bishop Pavle wrote and warned of the present exodus of Serbs from Kosovo, the attacks of the Albanians on Serbian monasteries, the rape of nuns, and terrorizing of pedestrians, the desecration of Serbian cemeteries and overall suffering of the Orthodox in Kosovo and in Metohija.
PatriarchPavle exemplifies simplicity in his lifestyle and is the embodiment of humility and personal holiness, a most worthy helmsman to guide the "Ship of the Church" in these troubled times.
The various Serbian principalities were united ecclesiastically in the early 13th century by Saint Sava, the son of the Serbian ruler and founder of the Serbian medieval state Stefan Nemanja and brother of Stefan Prvovencani, the first Serbian king.
The SerbianPatriarchate was restored in 1557 by the sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovci and SerbianPatriarchPavle
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