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<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/i><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div><\/p>\nOn 22nd<\/sup> November 2020 the divine liturgy and funeral took place in the Church of St. Sava in Belgrade of His Holiness Irinej Patriarch of Serbia (1930 \u2013 2020), who died on 20th<\/sup> November.<\/p>\n The service was headed by the locum tenens<\/em> of the Patriarchal throne of the Serbian Orthodox Church the metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia Hrizostom; concelebrating were the chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate the metropolitan of Volokolamsk Hilarion and the chancellor of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church the metropolitan of Boryspil and Brovary Anthony, the archbishop of Ochrid John, the metropolitan of Zagreb and Ljublin Porphyrius and other bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Among the concelebrating clergy were the cleric of the Antiochian Patriarchate archimandrite Procopius (Taiar), the secretary of the DECR for inter-Orthodox relations archpriest Igor Yakimchuk and the deputy chairman of the DECR of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church archpriest Nikolai Danilevich. Attending the service in the church were leading Serbian politicians the Serbian president Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107, the president of the National Assembly Ivica Da\u010di\u0107, prime minister Ana Brnabi\u0107 and government ministers. Also present were the Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Milorad Dodik and the prime minister-elect for Montenegro Zdravko Krivokapi\u0107, the Russian ambassador to Serbia Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, representatives of Serbia\u2019s traditional religions, diplomats and public and cultural figures.<\/p>\n After the funeral oration by the locum tenens<\/em> of the Patriarchal throne the metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia Hrizostom, the chairman of the DECR read out condolences from His Holiness Kirill Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus. Obituaries were also read out by the dean of the St. Michael Cathedral of Belgrade archpriest Petar Luki\u0107, the Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Milorad Dodik and Serbian president Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107, who noted the good relations which the newly-reposed Primate of the Serbian Church had enjoyed with Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n After the funeral service the coffin with the newly-reposed Patriarch was solemnly buried in the crypt of the Church of St. Sava at the site chosen as the resting place for the Primates of the Serbian Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n On the same day the metropolitan of Volokolamsk Hilarion had a conversation with the Serbian president Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107. The Serbian head of state expressed his heartfelt gratitude to Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church for their participation in the project for the interior d\u00e9cor of the Church of St. Sava in Belgrade. The chairman of the DECR also talked with the president of the Serbian National Assembly Ivica Da\u010di\u0107, the Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Milorad Dodik and the prime minister-elect for Montenegro Zdravko Krivokapi\u0107.<\/p>\n Communications Service of the DECR<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On 22nd November 2020 the divine liturgy and funeral took place in the Church of St. Sava in Belgrade of His Holiness Irinej Patriarch of Serbia (1930 \u2013 2020), who died on 20th November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":188267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[96,16,9,1,12,102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mospat.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}