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Serbian patriarch Mr. Pavle passed away 11 years ago on this day, and many believers visited the monastery of the Holy Archangels in Rakovica, where the beloved patriarch rests.
Believers came from all over Serbia to the Rakovica monastery.
His Holiness the Serbian Patriarch Pavle passed away on this day, in 2009, and was buried at his request, at the door of the monastery of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel in Rakovica.
Patriarch Pavle (secular name Gojko Stojčević) was born on September 11, 1914 in the village of Kućanci near Donji Miholjac in Slavonia.
In the spring of 1942, his friend from school, Hieromonk Jelisej, took him to the Monastery of the Holy Trinity in Ovčara, and from 1944 he worked as a religious teacher and educator in Banja Koviljača, in a home for children fleeing Bosnia. That year, he contracted tuberculosis.
Until 1946 he was in the Vujan monastery, where he was cured of tuberculosis. He became a monk in 1948 at the monastery of the Annunciation in the Ovčar-Kablar gorge and received the name Pavle, given to him by Abbot Julijan Knezević. That year he was ordained to the rank of jerodiacon.
From 1949 to 1955, he was a brother of the Rača monastery in Podrinje. School 1950/51. he worked as an assistant professor at the “Saint Cyril and Methodius” seminary in Prizren. He became a hieroglyphic monk in 1954, soon to be an archangel and an archimandrite in 1957. Starting in 1955, he studied for two years in Athens. He was elected Bishop of Raska and Prizren on May 29, 1957. He was ordained in Belgrade Cathedral on September 22, 1957 by Patriarch Vikentije and Bishop Emilian of Pakrac, Longin of Zvornik-Tuzla and German Zicka.
In October of that year, he was enthroned in Prizren by Bishop German and Vladislav of Zahumlje-Herzegovina. He spent 33 years in Kosovo. At the extraordinary session of the Holy Synod of Bishops on December 1, 1990, presided over by the Metropolitan of Zagreb and Ljubljana, Jovan Pavlović, the then ailing German Patriarch, a new patriarch was elected from among three candidates by secret ballot.
As none of the candidates obtained a sufficient number of votes, the election was made by lot in the so-called “apostolic path” by having Archimandrite Antonio de Tronoch draw the name of the future patriarch.
This is how Pavle became the 44th head of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Enthroned on December 2, 1990 in the Cathedral Church of St. Archangel Michael in Belgrade by 12 bishops, 12 priests and 13 deacons. Patriarch Pavle then pointed out that his only work program was the Gospel. He visited numerous Orthodox churches: Constantinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Georgia, as well as Serbian dioceses and parishes in America, Canada, Australia, Hungary and Romania.
(Kurir.rs)
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