The celebration of the great ecclesiastic-historic jubilee, the Centenary of the Reestablishment of the Serbian Patriarchate, began on May 14, 2022, in Sremski Karlovci. After the solemn Doxology, His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Porfirije presided over the vespers service in the Cathedral of St Nicholas, followed by the opening of a multimedia exhibition entitled "One Century Since the Establishment of the Serbian Patriarchate 1920-2020" in the famous Patriarchal Palace.
On Sunday, May 15, 2022, His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije celebrated the Patriarchal Divine Liturgy, and the Invocation of the Holy Spirit for the Holy Assembly of Bishops, concelebrated by 12 hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the St. Nicholas Cathedral. This liturgical culmination of the centenary celebration was followed by the official opening of the convocation of the Holy Assembly of Bishops; the reading of the centenary encyclical from the balcony of the Patriarchal Palace; and a rich and diverse cultural program in the main square of Sremski Karlovci in tribute to the 100th Anniversary of the reestablishment of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
The Serbian Orthodox Church achieved autocephalous status in 1219, under the leadership of St Sava, becoming the independent Archbishopric of Zhicha. Its status was elevated to that of a patriarchate in 1346, and was known afterwards as the Serbian Patriarchate of Pech. This patriarchate was abolished by the Ottoman Turks in 1766, though several regional sections of the Serbian Orthodox Church continued to exist, most prominent among them being the Metropolitanate of Karlovci, in the Habsburg Monarchy. After the re-creation of Serbia, ecclesiastical autonomy was regained in 1831, and the autocephaly was renewed in 1879. The modern Serbian Orthodox Church was re-established in 1920, after the reunification of the Metropolitanate of Belgrade, the Metropolitanate of Karlovci, and the Metropolitanate of Montenegro, joined by the other Serbian metropolitanate as and dioceses, known as the Serbian Orthodox Church. Metropolitan Dimitrije of Belgrade and Serbia was elected as the first Patriarch of the renewed Patriarchate of Pech.
Given the instrumental participation of Prince Regent Alexander in 1920, later known in history as the Unifier King, the presence of Their Royal Highnesses Heir Apparent Prince Philip, Princess Danica and young Prince Stefan was of particular importance to the centenary celebration.
Source: http://spc.rs
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