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The church has its own centennial order that must not be disturbed under the influence of political circumstances and cannot meet the demands to give Macedonians independence outside the canon, and if they were to decide on an “illegal venture”, no Orthodox church I would recognize it. The question of the independence of the Macedonian Orthodox Church has been raised again these days by the requests of the Ecumenical Patriarch to grant them autocephaly, and the cited post of the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, from whom independence is no longer sought. , canonically.
The opinions cited, in fact, were expressed in May 1947 at a meeting in the Patriarchate, and were presented to the then officials by Patriarch Gavrilo Dožić. Gavril Dozic, prisoner of the Austro-Hungarian and German camps in two world wars, clergyman of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, head of the Serbian Church that supported the demonstrations of March 27, 1941 and the rejection of the Triple Alliance, will be able to meet Gavril Dozic. It was recently announced by the Metropolitanate de Montenegro y el Litoral on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of his death.
It consists of three books, “Memories”, “Writings” and “Biography”. Along with the little-known second book “Memoirs”, it is interesting that for the first time more than 100 documents, letters, epistles, acts of Patriarch Gavril are published, while his “Biography” was written by historian Radmila Radić. Describing him as one of the most important figures in the history of the Serbian Orthodox Church of the 8th century, Archpriest-Staurophor Dr. Velibor Dzomic, author of several books on the history of the Serbian Church, says that the most interesting and historically important of its hierarchical service are related to the Metropolitanate de Peja. – coastal in the Kingdom of SCS / Yugoslavia, captivity in World War II and the Serbian Patriarchate in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, but also in socialist Yugoslavia.
“He made an immeasurable contribution to the second renewal of the Pec Patriarchate from 1918 to 1922, and always established the unity of the Serbian people.” He was elected Patriarch of Serbia in one of the most complex moments in modern history. At the time of his election as patriarch, communism was widely positioned on the world stage in the Soviet Union, but Nazism was flourishing and growing. He came to the throne of Saint Sava at a time when his predecessor was apparently poisoned for defending the dignity of the Serbian church. The state was politically divided and beheaded because, a few years before his election as patriarch, King Alexander was assassinated and the state was ruled by deputies led by Prince Pavle, “recalls Džomić.
He points out that Patriarch Gavrilo was remembered as a confessor of the Orthodox faith because, as he adds, on March 27, 1941, after concluding a pact with the Nazis, he resolutely defended his face and soul with the Holy Synod of Bishops, which convened a extraordinary session. of our people.
“If nothing remains but the famous speech on Radio Belgrade of March 27, 1941, it is enough that it remains inscribed in golden letters in our history. There is no doubt that Bishop Nikolaj also participated in the compilation of that speech. He did not accept the invitation to leave the country with the king and the royal government. He went to the safest place in the spiritual sense: to the Ostrog monastery to pray to God for his people and the clergy near the life of St. Vasilije Ostroški, where he was arrested by the Germans, “says Džomić.
The arrest took place on April 25, 1941 and Patriarch Gavrilo describes it in detail in his “Memoirs”: how the Gestapo broke into his cell, arrested him shouting that he was a war instigator and a criminal, beat his head of state Major and left him outside for hours in the rain without a winter coat. “This time, we both endure what our Saint Sava children endure to the same extent today, who had a bloody German knife placed under their throats. But morale must remain high in all temptations, without which there can be no victory tomorrow, ”writes Patriarch Gavrilo.
“In World War II, he was the only church leader to be arrested and confined, and then imprisoned in the infamous Nazi-fascist Dachau camp. Bishop Nikolaj drank that bitter glass with him. It is interesting that Croatian Ljubica Štefan published a feuilleton in the 1980s in the “Voice of the Council”, under the name Tomislav Vuković, in which she tried to show that Patriarch Gavrilo and Bishop Nikolaj were ‘in hotel accommodation’ at Dachau camp. The feuilleton was later translated into a book entitled “Serbian Church and Fascism”, but with her name as the author. It is even more devastating that dark guys in our country plagiarized Ljubica Štefan’s theses to accuse the Serbian church even because its first hierarch and the most eminent bishop were arrested during Nazism, “says Džomić, adding that we must not forget that the Patriarch Gavrilo was in the Austro-Hungarian camp of Cegled during the First World War.
Letters of protest to Broz
Patriarch Gabriel returned to the country in early November 1946.
“He found terrible balances. Five Ustash bishops and one communist were killed. Almost 500 priests of the communists, more than 200 of the Ustash and another 200 of the Germans, Italians, Hungarians, Arnauts and others were killed. Hundreds of temples and monasteries were destroyed. With all this, the new communist government embarked on a brutal “separation of church and state.” Priests and believers were persecuted and tried, and the church was legally reduced to one of the “civic organizations.” Today Today, the patriarch’s letters and protests against such a situation to Broz represent important historical sources on the condition and position of our church after World War II. He died on May 7, 1950, but there are certain opinions that he was also poisoned.
He came before God, whom he served with devotion from his youth, as a clear-faced confessor, “says Velibor Džomić.
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