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Metropolitan Chrysostom of Dabro-Bosnia will lead the Serbian Orthodox Church until the election of a new patriarch, as Patriarch Irinej passed away this morning as a result of the corona virus.
Photo: Pixabay / BairynaAccording to the Constitution of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC), after the death of the patriarch, a new one is elected within three months, and until then his place must be held by the oldest metropolitan, who is today Metropolitan Chrysostom. from Dabro-Bosnia, which sits in Sarajevo.
He could be in charge of the Serbian Orthodox Church for longer than prescribed, considering that the corona virus epidemic makes voting difficult. The new patriarch is elected by the bishops, that is, the Council in which all metropolitans and bishops have an equal position, and every bishop who has been a bishop in a diocese for at least five years has the right to be elected head of the Church.
The voting procedure is secret, and the corona virus made it difficult because it would be difficult to organize the vote and, at the same time, respect ecclesiastical and epidemiological regulations.
There is also the option of absentee voting, but that would require a high degree of trust in the system, given the secrecy of the election, Klix reports.
The Constitution of the Serbian Orthodox Church stipulates that a Serbian patriarch can be anyone who has been a “diocesan bishop for at least five years”, and the procedure requires that three candidates be chosen by secret ballot by Parliament, whose equal members are all metropolitans and bishops of Serbia and the world.
The Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Irinej (90), died today at the VMC Karaburma, where he was hospitalized due to a coronavirus infection, after his health condition worsened.
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