Serbian Orthodox Church in Germany

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The Serbian Orthodox Church in Germany ( Serbian Српска Православна Црква у Немачкој, СПЦ Srpska Pravoslavna Crkva u Nemačkoj, SPC ) is a diaspora church of the Serbian Orthodox Church .

former bishop's church Dormition of the Mother of God in Hildesheim - Himmelsthür

history

The Serbian Orthodox Church in Germany is closely linked to the labor migration of the Serbian population in Germany . According to its own information, the Serbian Orthodox Church in Germany has more than 250,000 believers. The community members are in 37 churches supervised pastoral. In addition, the Serbian Orthodox Church in Germany is part of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese in Central Europe , which until 2011 also included the parishes in Austria and Switzerland . She is a member of the Council of Christian Churches , the Ecumenical Commission of the Conference of European Churches and the World Council of Churches (World Council of Churches). She is co-founder of the Commission of the Orthodox Churches in Germany (KOKID). The bishopric of the Serbian Orthodox eparchy of Düsseldorf and all of Germany , as it has been called since 2018, has been in Himmelsthür , a district of Hildesheim , since 1978 , in Frankfurt am Main since 2011 and in Düsseldorf since 2018 . The name of the eparchy was adapted accordingly.

Parishes

Serbian Orthodox Church in Munich-Perlach

The Serbian Orthodox parishes are located in the following German cities:

Aachen, Augsburg, Altena, Berlin, Bielefeld, Bocholt, Bonn, Bremen, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Essen, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Friedrichshafen, Geilnau, Hamburg , Hanover, Karlsruhe, Kassel, Cologne, Lippstadt, Mannheim, Munich, Nuremberg, Offenbach, Osnabrück, Paderborn, Regensburg, Rosenheim, Saarbrücken, Stuttgart, Trier, Ulm, Villingen-Schwenningen, Wiesbaden, Würzburg, Wuppertal.

The church at the former bishopric in Hildesheim is consecrated to the Dormition of the Mother of God and the associated monastery of the All Saints Theotokos . The diocese also includes the skis of St. Spyridon in Geilnau and a monastery founded in 2011 in Eiterfeld .

Bishops

The first bishop for Central Europe was Lavrentije Trifunović , followed on September 1, 1991 by Konstantin Đokić ; In December 2012, however, the bishop was suspended from his office until further notice and, in 2014, he was succeeded by Sergije Karanović , who was also suspended in 2017.

From 2017 until Bishop Grigorije took office, Andrej (Cilerdzic) , Bishop of the Austria-Switzerland diocese, headed the diocese as administrator.

Episkop (bishop) of Düsseldorf and all of Germany has been Grigorije (Durić) since September 16, 2018 . The doctor of theology was previously episcope of the diocese of Zachumlien and Herzegovina . [5]

Church life

The pastoral tasks of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Germany extend in addition to the Sunday worship service to other offers for the Serbian Orthodox believers, such as the parish of St. Sava shows in Hanover: There are religious education for Serbian Orthodox children Serb supplementary instruction, a German classes for community members, a Schola - and cantor training , senior citizens, women and youth work , mother-and-child groups, unemployment assistance, volunteer social work , also Participation in folk groups with a small orchestra and their own costume tailoring, choir groups and theater groups.

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  1. ↑ cf. Commission of the Orthodox Churches in Germany ( Memento from July 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Villingen-Schwenningen
  3. ↑ Monks in the country inn: Serbian Orthodox monastery planned in East Hesse. In: fr-online.de . October 28, 2008, accessed December 19, 2014 .
  4. ^ Serbian Orthodox Church: The Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Central Europe Sergije. July 2, 2014, accessed February 9, 2015 .
  5. ↑ cf. Community activities

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