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unusual facts about Serbian Orthodox



Amir Rešić

He later converted from Islam to Serbian Orthodoxy and changed his Muslim name Amir to the Christian Nikola (Nicholas, Serbian: Никола), because his wife is Serbian Orthodox.

Cenei

As of 2002, 82.6% were Romanian and Serbian Orthodox, 13.2% Roman Catholic, 1.5% Pentecostal, 0.8% Baptist and 0.5% each Reformed and Greek-Catholic.

Gjon Kastrioti

In 1426 he donated the right to the proceeds from taxes collected from the two villages (Rostuša and Trebište in Macedonia) and from the church of Saint Mary, which was in one of them, to the Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Hilandar in Mount Athos where his son Reposh retired and died in 25 July 1431.

Goran Hadžić

In 2005, Serbian media reported he might be hiding in a Serbian Orthodox monastery in Irig or in Bijela, Montenegro.

Markovac, Bjelovar-Bilogora County

The population was Serbian Orthodox; the village didn't have a church, so some people went to the Serbian Orthodox church in Bijela.

Milica Ilic

Mili Davies was born as Milica Ilić in 1981 in Bosnia, Yugoslavia to Serbian Orthodox parents, she has an older sister who learnt violin.

Pantina

The village is part of the ecclessiastical jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Raška and Prizren.

Zavala monastery

The Zavala monastery is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located in the village of Zavala in the eastern part of Popovo Polje, in Herzegovina, about 50 km west of the city of Trebinje.


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Danilo II

Saint Danilo II, archbishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church 1324–1337

Eparchy of Raška and Prizren

The Eparchy directly serves the Serbian Orthodox of Kosovo and the lower Raška District (Tutin and Novi Pazar).

Ferhat Pasha Mosque

As this was also the date of the Serbian Orthodox holiday of Đurđevdan, it was alleged to have been chosen deliberately to inflame the nationalist feelings of the local Serbian residents.

FK FAP

According to the memory of Serbian Orthodox priest, Vasilije Petrović, and local retiree, Rasim Hasanagić, the first real ball was brought in Priboj by Aleksandar Nikolić, Branko Stikić and Mikan Mićević who were at the time the students in Sarajevo.

Miraš Dedeić

On 20 November 1938 he was baptized by a Serbian Orthodox priest by the name of Niko Pavičić in the Church of Saint Transfiguration of Lord in the not far away village of Krš.

Mojsije

Mojsije Putnik, Serbian Orthodox Metropolitan of Sremski Karlovci 1781-1790

Ohrid Archbishopric

Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric, an autonomous archbishopric under the jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

Macedonian Orthodox Church – Ohrid Archbishopric, formed in 1967 by a former Serbian Orthodox clergyman, however it is not recognized by any other autocephalous church.

Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric

In attempt to restore its canonical status and gain recognition from the Orthodox churches, the Macedonian Orthodox Church negotiated with the Serbian Orthodox Church, and these negotiations led to an eventual agreement signed in Niš in June 2002, thus known as the Niš Agreement.

Ostrog

Ostrog monastery, a Serbian Orthodox Christian monastery in Montenegro

Pavle

Patriarch Pavle of Serbia (1914-2009), Serbian Orthodox Patriarch, served 1990–2009

Piperi clan

Pipo's brothers were forefathers of the Orthodox Serb tribes of Vasojevići and Ozrinići, Mrkojevići, Ban (Bijeli Pavle) Brđani(Bjelopavlici), and the Albanian Catholic tribes Krasniqi (and Serbian Orthodox Krasnići) and Hoti).

Saint Arsenije I Sremac

His feast day is celebrated according to the Orthodox liturgical calendar on October 28 (for those churches, such as the Serbian Orthodox Church, which follow the traditional Julian Calendar, October 28 falls on November 10 of the modern Gregorian Calendar).

Svinica, Croatia

There are two Serbian Orthodox Churches in the village; Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Jovan and Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Petka.

Veljko Milatović

The same year he became one of the key people within the Commission for Njegoš's Monument, designated to design a Museum for Petar II Petrović-Njegoš which was about to be built in the place of his Chapel raised by Danilo that was to be destroyed, despite his personal promises to the Serbian Orthodox Church's Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral that no such move shall be taken as long as he's alive.