Sergije Karanović

Archimandrite Sergije Karanović (born July 4, 1975 in Bačka Palanka in northern Serbia) is a Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Central Europe.

Life

His real first name is Zoran. He attended school until 1990 and then, with the blessing of the bishop of Batschka , Irinej Bulović , moved to the seminary , which is housed in the Krka monastery in Croatia . Shortly before the height of the Yugoslav wars in 1995, he graduated from high school . In the same year, with the permission and blessing of his home bishop, he changed diocese and went to Bosnia-Herzegovina in the diocese of Bihać and Petrovac . Due to the war, this diocese was no longer intact in many places and the population was displaced. On August 12, 1995, Zoran Karanović was ordained a monk in the Gominonica monastery and was given the name Sergije. He took the vows of obedience, celibacy and poverty and went to the Rmanj monastery in Bosnia-Herzegovina, near the town of Martin Brod .

Shortly before the end of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the monastic community of the Rmanj monastery was expelled. They fled to Serbia . The Bishop of the Diocese of Banat , Hriszostom Stolić , accepted the monastic community and placed it in the Vojlovica Monastery near Pančevo, north of Belgrade. There the monk Sergije was ordained a deacon on October 31, 1995 . In the same year he enrolled as a student at the Theological Faculty in Belgrade . In 1996 he broke off his studies with the consent of his bishop and went to Germany to learn German. In 1997 and 1998 he took part in classes at the Eastern Church Institute in Regensburg . After the situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina had calmed down, he was able to return to his home monastery in Rmanj with Martin Brod. The return of the monks was important for the Serbian part of the population and was followed closely. As a new task he took on the task of in Rmanj cellarer .

On April 5, 1998 he was ordained a priest in Šipovo and looked after three parishes. Until 2002 he also taught religion.

In 2000 he was appointed Episcopal Deputy in the Diocese of Bijać and Petrovac for the area belonging to the Muslim-Croatian Federation in Bosnia-Herzegovina. This task was challenging because distrust had destroyed interpersonal relationships among ethnic groups and religions. During this period of reconstruction, he also took on dean duties and headed three dean's offices. He rebuilt the spiritual life of the congregations, organized church services, re-established church councils and encouraged people to return to their ancestral homes. Because of the renewal of spiritual life in Drvar parish , he was made Sindjel , an honorary title for monks, on Ascension Day 2002 . Two years later he was awarded the title Protosindjel .

In 2005 he went to the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki to study Orthodox theology. He graduated in 2010. Since he was a major contributor to the reconstruction of his home monastery and rebuilt the monk's wing, he was appointed abbot in 2008 , and on April 7, 2014 as archimandrite . At the spring plenary assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Bishops on May 23, 2014 in Belgrade, he was elected bishop for the diocese of Central Europe .

In May 2016, Sergije Karanović was recalled from the diocese after protests by lay people and priests and appointed bishop of Bihać-Petrovac. He was u. a. accused of financial irregularities.

Web links

• Biography at the Serbian Orthodox Church

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Serbian Orthodox Bishop recalled from Germany. Retrieved November 8, 2017 .