Posted by Leo
on 7/25/2009, 4:08 am
See Patriarchate decision here: http://www.newgracanica.net/english/news_folder/june2009/arondacijaEn.html
Sources of scant background:
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Church_of_Serbia#The_Americas
http://orthodoxwiki.org/Serbian_Orthodox_Church_in_Australia_and_New_Zealand#History
ISTR that the New Gracanica* Metropolitanate, formerly the Free Serbian Orthodox Church (1963-92), was an anti-Communist separation in the Serbian diaspora, akin to ROCOR, and the OCA's Albanian, Romanian, and Bulgarian dioceses. In '92 they and the Patriarchate reunited, but maintained parallel/overlapping jurisdictions. The implementation of this arrangement seems to integrate them in the U.S. and Canada, but not yet in Australia (though there they share a Bishop, Clevelander IRINEJ!). It includes the effective primate here, Metropolitan CHRISTOPHER, getting a rump-Primatial See consisting of the SOC plant in Libertyville and 3 Chicago parishes -- not unlike the OCA's Diocese of Washington DC (again).
(*--Possibly pronounced grah-chah-NEET-sah?)
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