Serbian Orthodox Diocese Austria-Switzerland
The eparchy of Austria and Switzerland ( Serbian - Cyrillic Епархија аустријско-швајцарска ) is an eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church .
At the last Bishops' Council of the Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate in November 2010 in Belgrade, it was decided to re-establish this eparchy. To this end, the Serbian Orthodox Church in Austria and the Serbian Orthodox Church in Switzerland (including the municipality of Liechtenstein) will be separated from the pastoral care of the diocese for Central Europe based in Hildesheim-Himmelsthür , and with the Serbian Orthodox Church in Italy , which were previously looked after by the metropolitan area of Zagreb-Ljubljana .
Irinej (Bulović) , currently Bishop of the Eparchy of Bačka in Novi Sad, was appointed administrator and initially bishop in Austria with a ceremony on June 26, 2011 . On May 23, 2014, the Bishops' Assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Church elected Bishop Andrej Ćilerdžić as Bishop of the diocese. Episcopal Vicar for Austria is Archpriest-Stavrophor Krstan Knezevic ( Dormition of the All Saints Theotokos Vienna-Hernals) .
Formal constitutional recognition is still pending, in Austria the “Orthodox Law” had to be amended in 1967 (amendment 2011).
In 2013, the Mission Church in Malta was also assigned to the eparchy .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b handover to the new Serbian Orthodox bishop. ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Archdiocese of Vienna, June 27, 2011
- ↑ Will Austria get its own Serbian Orthodox diocese? religion.orf.at, News January 7, 2011
- ↑ Serbia: Orthodoxy struggles to realign the church , oekumene.at, Belgrade-Vienna, August 30, 2010 (KAP)
- ↑ Serbia: Bishops' Council decides to reorganize the church structures ( memento of the original from October 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , G2W - Ecumenical Forum for Faith, Religion and Society in East and West, Zurich, June 21, 2011
- ↑ Austria ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Diocese for Central Europe; Serbian Orthodox Church . World Council of Churches; Serbian Orthodox Parish of St. Sava in Vienna / Serbian Church Austria (sr)
- ↑ Switzerland ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Diocese for Central Europe.
- ↑ cf. → pl: Ireneusz (Bulović)
- ↑ Communique of the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church (2013)
