Dismissed Bishop Artemije H1 Serbia passed away

The dismissed bishop of Raska-Prizren and Kosovo-Metohija, Radosavljevic Artemije, passed away today at the age of 85. As H1 learns, he recently presented to the Valjevo hospital for heart problems, but was about to arrive with a worsening state of health, after which he was diagnosed with pneumonia and today he was sent to the Dragisa Mišović Hospital in Belgrade.

It was confirmed for H1 in Valjevo that the former bishop died in the ambulance during transport to Belgrade.

Bishop Artemije was replaced by the Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 2010 due to the financial and material management of the businesses of the Diocese of Raska and Prizren, and in 2015 he was expelled from the church, he recalls. Radio KiM.

Artemije (Marko) Radosavljevic was born in the village of Lelic near Valjevo. He became a monk in 1960 at the Ćelija monastery. He graduated from the Faculty of Theology in Athens, where he also received his doctorate. He was elected bishop of Raska and Prizren in 1991. Before that, Patriarch Pavle performed this duty. Due to issues in the diocese, the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church dissolved it in 2010. However, a few months later, Artemije formed the Diocese of Raska and Prizren in exile. He lived in the Šišatovac monastery in Fruška gora. The former vicar bishop of Lipljan, Teodosije, was appointed bishop of Raska and Prizren.

The president of the European Movement of Kosovo Serbs, Rada Trajković, posted the news of his death on her Twitter account. He claimed that Bishop Artemije was “a great fighter for the rights of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija” and that he was “persecuted to the end, but now finally peace.” “Eternal memory and thanks to him,” Trajković wrote on Twitter.