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12 million strong Serbian Orthodox Church crowns new Patriarch

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  • Porfirije was crowned Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade on Friday.
  • The 59 year-old Porfirije is viewed as a modernist.
  • Porfirije will succeed the more conservative Patriarch Irinej, who died in November.

BELGRADE, Serbia – Bishop Porfirije Peric was crowned the 46th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade on Friday.

Hundreds of government and church officials witnessed the ceremony.

The 59 year-old Porfirije is viewed as a modernist who will succeed the more conservative Patriarch Irinej, who died in November at age 90 from COVID-19.

With some 12 million members, the Serbian Orthodox Church maintains churches in Serbia, the five former Yugoslav republics, Kosovo, the United States, Australia and Western Europe.

Delivering a sermon during Friday’s ceremony, Porfirije said that Kosovo, a former Serbian province predominantly populated by Albanians, would continue to be at the center of church policies.

Kosovo was separated from Belgrade in 1999 following the Kosovo war.

“Kosovo is for us … an umbilical cord that links us with the essence of our identity,” said Porfirije.

Russia supports both the government in Belgrade, as well as the Serbian Orthodox Church, in their refusal to recognise independent Kosovo.

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