A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

by Alexei D. Krindatch, the research coordinator with the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America

  • Serbian Orthodox Church in North America: Number of Parishes by State (2010) (including mission parishes and monastic communites)
  • Serbian Orthodox Church in North America: Number of Adherents by County (2010)

 

Further information:

  • Spasovic, Stanimir. The History of the Serbian Orthodox Church in America and Canada. 1941-1991. Belgrade: Printing House of the Serbian Patriarchate, 1998.
  • Vukovic, Bishop Sava. History of the Serbian Orthodox Church in America and Canada, 1891-1941. Kragujevac, Serbia: Kalenic Press, 1998.
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Diocesan Hierarch:
His Grace Bishop LONGIN

Residence:
Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos Monastery
35240 N. Grant St.
Third Lake, IL 60046

Mailing address:
PO Box 371
Grayslake, IL 60030-0371

Office/Residence - 847-223-4300
Fax - 847-223-4312

Diocesan Hierarch:
His Grace the Right Reverend IRINEJ (Dobrijevic)
Bishop of Eastern America 
The Serbian Orthodox Church

Episcopal Headquarters
9 Friar Tuck Court
Warren, NJ 07059
Office telephone / fax: 908-647-5314
www.easterndiocese.org

Diocesan Hierarch:
His Grace Bishop Dr. MAXIM (Vasiljevic)

Residence:
2541 Crestline Terrace
Alhambra, CA 91803

Office - 626-289-9061
Residence - 626-284-6825
Fax - 626-284-1484

Diocesan Hierarch:
His Grace KIRILO (Bojovic),
Bishop of Buenos Aires and South-Central America

Published by: Sebastian Press of the Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church

1. ANNUAL 2011

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Commemorating the Ninetieth Anniversary of the Establishment of the First Serbian Diocese for America and Canada (1921-2011)

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People Directory

Константин Фотић

Константин Д. Фотић (Шабац, 1891 - Вашингтон, 1959) школовао се у Шапцу, а затим завршио права у Бордоу. У Балканским paтовима служио је као коњички официр,  а током I светског рата као официр за везу са Француском војном командом на Солунском фронту; 1915. постављен је у Министарство спољних послова Краљевине Србије и са Николом Пашићем учествовао на мировним преговорима у Паризу. Kао дипломата је службовао је Берну, Лондону, Паризу, Стокхолму, Бeчу итд., а обављао је и разне дужности у министарству спољних послова Краљевине СХС/Југославије (шеф Одељења за Лигу народа, директор Политичког одељења, помоћник министра спољних послова). Као стални делегат Југославије при Друштву народа, учествовао је на скоро свим међународним конференцијама од 1926. до 1935. Смишљене интервенције и контруктивни предлози донели су Фoтићу велики углед међу колегама; често је био позиван да равноправно са делегатима великих сила учествује у најважнијим састанцима водећих европских државника.

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Publishing

The Church at Prayer

by Archimandrite Aimilianos of Simonopetra

Publisher’s note

Many readers of the addresses of Elder Aimilianos, which have been published in the five-volume series, rchimandrite Aimilianos, Spiritual Instructions and Discourses (Ormylia, 1998-2003), have frequently expressed the wish for an abridged and more accessible form of his teaching. In response, we are happy to inaugurate a new series of publications incorporating key texts from the above-mentioned collection. Other considerations have also contributed o this new project, such as the selection of specific texts which address important, contemporary questions; the need for a smaller, more reader-friendly publication format; and the necessity for editing certain passages in need of clarification, without however altering their basic meaning.

Above all, the works collected in this volume reflect the importance which the Elder consistently attached to prayer, spirituality, community life, worship, and liturgy. Thus the experientially based works "On Prayer", and "The Prayer of the Holy Mountain", which deal primarily with the Prayer of the Heart, appear first, followed by the summary addresses on "The Divine Liturgy", and "Our Church Attendance". These are in turn followed by the more socially oriented discourses on "Our Relations with Our Neighbor", and "Marriage: The Great Sacrament". Finally, the present volume closes with the sermons on "Spiritual Reading" and "The Spiritual Life", which in a simple and yet compelling manner set forth the conditions for "ascending to heaven on the wings of the Spirit".

It is our hope that The Church at Prayer will meet the purpose for which it is issued and will serve as a ready aid and support for those who desire God and eternal life in Him.