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The blessed Patriarch Irinej will be buried today in the crypt of the Temple of Saint Sava in Vracar.
Believers will not be able to kiss the patriarch or the coffin, and citizens are urged to wear masks and not stay too long when delivering mail.
Detailed plan of the farewell of the blessed patriarch
The priests above Patriarch Irinej’s funeral read the Gospels until 9 o’clock when the liturgy of the holy requiem begins, which will be served by Metropolitan Chrysostom of Dabro-Bosnia, the current bishops and 16 priests.
At 11 o’clock it opened.
After the service in the extension of the liturgy, the President of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić, Metropolitan Chrysostom, the President of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the elder of the Cathedral Church of Belgrade, the Archpriest-Staurophore Petar Lukić, will bid farewell to the Patriarch.
After the sermons, the priests of Belgrade will lower the remains of the Patriarch to the tomb of the crypt.
7.45 – The “Branko” choir, founded in the diocese of Nis, will sing at the funeral.
The church’s “Branko” singing company, a choir founded in the diocese of Nis 133 years ago, will sing today at Patriarch Irinej’s funeral. The patriarch himself decorated the choir with the Order of Saint Sava of the second degree, and they sang at the enthronement of two patriarchs: Paul and Irinej. The choir sang all over the world, and since 2009, under the patriarch’s auspices, the “Branko” choir has hosted the international spiritual music festival “Music Edict”.
7.15 – Traffic around the temple of Saint Sava was suspended
At this time, traffic has been suspended on all side streets around the St. Sava temple. By the way, today, citizens will not be able to enter the temple of St. Sava without a mask, which is otherwise distributed in front of the temple.
7.10 – Citizens came to the Temple of Saint Sava all night to pay homage to Patriarch Irinej
Throughout the night, citizens paid their respects to Patriarch Irinej at the temple of Saint Sava. This continued early this morning, and the priests during Patriarch Irinej’s funeral read the Gospels.
The Holy Synod of Bishops informed the clergy, monks and faithful that during the farewell prayer they strictly adhere to the measures prescribed by the competent state authorities due to the difficult epidemiological situation.
Biography of Patriarch Irinej
Patriarch Irinej is the 56th head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, because they were the first archbishops, starting with Saint Sava, and the 45th is the patriarch, by whom he was elected on January 22, 2010, in the Assembly of the Orthodox Church Serbia in Belgrade.
He ascended to the throne of the Church from the position of Bishop of Nis, and in his introductory speech he noted that he did not have a program of his own, but it was “the program of the Church.”
The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Irinej (Gavrilović), was born in the village of Vidova, near Čačak, in 1930 to father Zdravko and mother Milijana, and his baptismal name was Miroslav.
He finished primary school in Vidovo and then secondary school in Čačak, seminary in Prizren and the Faculty of Theology in Belgrade. After completing his military service, he was appointed professor at the Prizren seminary. Before assuming the post of professor, in October 1959, at the Rakovica monastery, he received the monastic rank of the German Patriarch, receiving the name Irinej.
While serving as a professor at the Prizren Theological Seminary, he was sent to graduate studies in Athens. He was appointed director of the Monastic School of the Ostrog monastery in 1969, from where he returned to Prizren as rector of the Prizren seminary.
From that position, in 1974, he was elected vicar bishop (assistant) patriarch, with the title of bishop of Moravica, and only a year later he was elected bishop of Nis, where he served until he was appointed patriarch.
At the time of his accession to the patriarchal throne, there were around 40 temples under construction in the territory of the Diocese of Nis, with approximately the same number of churches under renovation. In 1998, for the first time in half a century, to the glory of the Pentecost Nis Cathedral temple, a great liturgy was renewed on the streets of Nis.
As chief, he emphasized the importance of completing the works on the St. Sava temple for Serbs and other Orthodox peoples.
The full title of the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church is His Holiness the Archbishop of Peja, the Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovac and the Serbian Patriarch, the flags are: panagia, scepter and white patriarchal corduroy.
(Kurir.rs)
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