{"id":3295,"date":"2023-01-13T22:04:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T22:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eparhijasremska.rs\/?page_id=3295"},"modified":"2023-02-04T17:42:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T17:42:47","slug":"biography-of-his-grace","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eparhijasremska.rs\/eng\/biography-of-his-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"BIOGRAPHY OF HIS GRACE THE HOLY BISHOP OF SREM MR. VASILIJE"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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BIOGRAPHY OF HIS GRACE THE HOLY BISHOP OF SREM MR. VASILIJE<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHis Grace the Holy Bishop of the Diocese of Srem Mr. Vasilije (Vaso Vadi\u0107) was born on December 10,\n1946, in the village Opsje\u010dko, in the municipality of \u010celinac, near the city Banja Luka. He grew up as the\nyoungest, tenth child of Luka and Jovanka Vadi\u0107, virtuous and poor Orthodox Christians, who laid a solid\nfoundation of steadfast faith and sacrificial love for the Church of Christ in the soul of the future\narchbishop, even in his earliest childhood. These virtues will play a decisive role in the ten-year-old boy's\nconfrontation with a great tragedy, which painfully marked this part of his life. On Christmas Day, 1956,\nafter a short illness, his father dies and he remains an orphan, cared for by his mother and older\nbrothers.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAfter finishing elementary school in his hometown, in 1961, he went to the Gomirje monastery in Gorski\nKotar, where he became a novice. He learned the alphabet of the monastic feat, under very poor\nmaterial conditions, in the desolate and half-ruined sanctuary, which was built in 1602 by the monks of\nthe Krka monastery. He stayed with his first spiritual father, abbot Miron (Miri\u0107), until 1964, when he\nenrolled in the Seminary of the Holy Three Hierarchs, in the Krka monastery, with the blessing of Simeon\n(Zlokovi\u0107), the bishop of Gornji Karlovac. The following words of the Holy Apostle Paul:\n\u201cRemember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you\u2026and imitate their faith" (Heb. 13,7), and\nremembering, quite often, the good abbot Miron, Bishop Vasilije emphasizes in the conversation that he\ndid not have a high theological education – but he was sincerely and loyal to the monastic vow, the\nOrthodox Church and his people. He also kept his "wonderful and good bishop Simeon" in his pleasant\nmemory.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHis spiritual growth in the Krka monastery, where he would spend the next fifteen years, was overseen\nby the abbot, the rector of the seminary there, Mr. Nikolaj (Mr\u0111a), the later Metropolitan of Dabro-\nBosnia. After completing his military service, on December 20, 1966, he received monastic vows, in the\nrank of small shima, from the bishop of Dalmatia, Stefan (Boca). The bitter and dangerous trials of the\nOrthodox Church at that time is also evidenced by the fact that Vasilije (Vadi\u0107) was first ordained monk,\nafter the Second World War, in the Krka monastery. Over time, there he went through the entire ladder\nof monastic obedience and duties. On Christmas 1967, in \u0160ibenik, he was ordained to the rank of\nhierodeacon, while he was ordained to the rank of protodeacon, with the right to wear a red belt, at the\nend of the fifth grade of the seminary, which he graduated with excellent success in 1971.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBishop Stefan of Dalmatia then recommended Hierodeacon Vasilije to the Holy Synod of Bishops, and he\nwent to the Orthodox Theological Institute of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Bucharest, where he\nstayed for four full years. He took all the exams at this higher educational institution in the Romanian\nlanguage. After completing his studies, he returned to Krka, where he was appointed as a deputy of the\nseminary and where, on Vidovdan in 1976, he was ordained as a hieromonk. There he performed\nresponsible educational duties and was a lecturer in the following subjects: Liturgy, Latin language and\nBiblical history. Since he formed his psychological profile precisely in this Orthodox sanctuary, he\nespecially took care of the regular maintenance of worship and the orderly order of the monastery\ntypical. He was promoted to the rank of syncellus in the same year, on the John the Baptist Day.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn accordance with the agreement between the Anglican and Serbian Orthodox Churches, from 1973,\nthe Committee of the British Council of Churches awarded scholarships to local clergy during one or two\nyears spent at one of the English colleges or universities. Fulfilling the request of the gifted priest, the\nHoly Synod of Bishops sent him to postgraduate studies in Oxford in 1977. Here, for example, he\nlistened to the lectures of the famous professor Timothy Ver, the latter Archimandrite and Metropolitan\nCallistos of Dioclia, on the subjects History of the Christian Church and Monastic Life. While living in the\nsilence of the Anglican monastery of Kaolifaders, syncellus Vasilije had the opportunity to master the\npurest English literary language, which was spoken by his Oxford professors.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn England, he was also elected Bishop of Australia and New Zealand, at the regular May session of the\nHoly Synod of Bishops, in 1978. Having received the unexpected news, he returned to his monastery\nagain, where, until his ordination, he performed the usual obediences, “like any other monk”. The\nordination of the newly elected Hierarch was performed by Serbian Patriarch German (\u0110ori\u0107), in the\npresence of several archbishops, clergy and many faithful people, on September 2, 1978. The next day,\nbright and sunny September 3rd, he moved with a procession from the palace of the Serbian\nPatriarchate to the Belgrade Cathedral, where he was ordained at the Holy Bishopric Liturgy, which was\nserved by the Serbian Patriarch German and the bishops: Stefan from \u017dica (Boca) and Domentijan from\nVranje (Pavlovi\u0107 ). On that solemn occasion, according to the old custom of the Eastern Church, Serbian\nPatriarch German addressed him with instructive words:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t“It was God’s will that the Holy Council of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church chose you and sent\nyou to distant Australia to save the souls of our Orthodox brothers there, so that they too feel and be\nconvinced that the Mother Serbian Church has not forgotten them, that they are cared for and taken\ncare of, just like for his children, Orthodox Serbs in the old Fatherland. Our Church has always made sure\nto send Bishops and the best priests to the most difficult places. Go there, dear Bishop, to preserve and\nteach our people not to forget their old homeland, the graves of their famous ancestors, our\nmonasteries, customs from the old region, Easter, Christmas and to preserve the faith of their ancestors\nand their language and all that is holy and congratulations to our famous ancestors. I hand over to you,\ndear brother Bishop Vasilije, this scepter, a symbol of episcopal authority, a symbol of governance, a\nsymbol of service and a symbol of learning. Receive it and make sure that in that distant land you\nanswer all your duties and obligations in a worthy way, to the joy of all of us here on earth, to the joy of\nthe angels in Heaven, and to the greatest joy of the Risen Christ the Savior.”\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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His Grace the Bishop of Srem Mr. Vasilije was at the head of the Eparchy of Australia-New Zealand for eight years (1978 \u0336 1986), as its second hierarch, after the administration of Bishop Nikolaj (Mr\u0111e). Upon arrival in Australia, the young Archbishop remains affected and deeply disappointed by the deep division of the Serbian community. The malicious antagonisms that destroyed the spiritual peace of this eparchy were rooted in the opposing ideological and political beliefs of their ancestors, as the bishop later noted: “All the old hatreds and traumas were transferred by our Serbs to the new soil and there, like poisonous hemlock, they planted. We build the monastery of St. Sava in Elaine, the schismatics immediately build another in spite, also St. Sava in Cambera.” With inexhaustible energy and resolute dedication to his mission, he goes around and gathers our people, scattered across the vast expanse of Australia, New Zealand and South Africa; teaches, advises, organizes church-school communities, around which believers gather, ordains young priests and arranges the construction of temples and public halls. In order to somehow counter the further progress of the already entrenched national “discord”, he convened the Assembly of Serbian Youth, at which lectures were given by the most distinguished intellectuals, theologians and archimandrites. In this way, the “Zaplotnja chetnik-partisan disputes” of the fathers and grandfathers of his eparchy were slowly marginalized, and he accompanied this complex and quite unusual social phenomenon with the following words:\u00a0<\/p>

“While other nations use historical memory to achieve unity, we Serbs seem to use historical forgetting.” What kind of irony?”\u00a0<\/p>

Over time, the rich fruits of the great efforts of the Australian clergy to cultivate Orthodox conciliarness have blossomed. Today, there are about one million Orthodox souls living in Australia. The Orthodox Faculty of Theology in Sydney and the Conference of Orthodox Churches were also founded. The biggest Orthodox manifestation on this continent is “Orthodox Week”, when the faithful bring icons from their homes, which are carried in a procession around the temple, followed by young men and women in colorful national costumes, under the national flags of Russia, Serbia, Greece, Syria, Romania, Bulgaria\u2026<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBishop Vasilije's stay in "beautiful and very rich Australia", where he enjoyed the warm hospitality of\nthat distant country, resulted in the construction of the Saint Sava Monastery – "from the ground", as\nwell as new temples, halls and parish houses. Together with his clergy and a small number of monks, he\ntried to establish close and friendly relations with all local Orthodox Churches, especially with the Greek\nOrthodox Church and its first hierarch, Archbishop Stilian. He also maintained cordial contacts with\nrepresentatives of the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches. He traveled thousands of kilometers and\nattended countless festivals, visiting his flock and reminding them of the faith of their ancestors, folk\ncustoms and rich traditions. In this way, he vigorously opposed the destructive, assimilation processes,\nwhich condemned their cultural and national identity to complete disappearance, "in the sea of\n\u200b\u200bProtestantism or the seductive, spiritual desert of modern civilization."\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy the decision of the Holy Synod of Bishops dated May 23, 1986, the Australian-New Zealand Bishop\nHis Grace Mr. Vasilije was appointed Archbishop of the Eparchy of Srem, with headquarters in Sremski\nKarlovci. On June 15, 1986, he was inducted into the throne of the Bishop of Srem, in the Cathedral\nChurch of Saint Nicholas, by the hand of the then administrator of the diocese, Bishop Stefan from \u017di\u010da,\nfrom whom he received the monastic tonsure in the Krka monastery and all other ordinations. After the\njoyous welcome, which was prepared for him by his new eparchies, the bishop finds the diocese\ndevastated, with gaping, neglected, war wounds. For the past decades, the mere preservation of\neparchial structures and existing religious buildings, seriously threatened by unrestrained, Bolshevik\nhostility, represented a truly heroic feat, carried out on their feeble shoulders by his blessed\npredecessors, bishops Nikanor, Makarije and Andrej. However, on the site of the Fru\u0161ka Gora\nmonasteries, there were still terrifying, indeed ghostly ruins. Monumental church buildings, raised and\nsanctified for centuries by the prayers and tears of Orthodox Serbs, which were not completely\ndestroyed under the fascist occupation, were occupied by inappropriate secular institutions in a\ncommunist state, completely insensitive to the religious needs of its population.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Archive of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina was forcibly moved into the neglected Patriarch's\nPalace in Sremski Karlovci, where the Croatian nazis formations (usta\u0161e) command was located during\nthe war, at the beginning of the communist rule. After a long and uncertain struggle, the new bishop of\nSrem, with the support of the leading hierarchs of the Serbian Church at the time and members of the\nHoly Synod of Bishops, Bishops Stefan (Boca) and Sava (Vukovi\u0107), managed to finally evict this institution\nfrom the "most representative Serbian home" under the Habsburg crown . Only then could all the\ntragedy of the almost barbaric negligence of the management and employees of this institution,\nexpressed in such a shameful way towards one of the most important monuments of the Sremski\nKarlovci Diocese, be seen. It took two years to paint over the darkened, dirty walls and repair the\nparquet, which, for unclear reasons, had previously been coated with processed oil intended for the\nmaintenance of motor vehicles. With the help of people from the "Boja Sombor" company, but also with\nthe supervision of experts from the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, the spacious\nhalls of the Patriarchate were cleaned and painted, so that they would resemble the former princely\nmagnificence as convincingly as possible with their neat, refreshed appearance. Also, the severely\ndamaged roof was reconstructed, on which twelve tons of copper was placed, and the hardworking\nworkers, who performed this complex work impeccably, were later employed on the covering of the\nSaint Sava Temple in Belgrade.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe arrival of His Grace the Bishop of Srem Mr. Vasilije at the head of the Eparchy of Srem coincided\nwith a dizzying change in political circumstances, which dominated human destinies in these areas for\nalmost half a century. After the collapse of rigid communism, state leaders began to conduct a much\nmore correct and benevolent dialogue with representatives of the Orthodox Church. In the coming era\nof mass awakening of religiosity, it became possible again to ask for the financial or other help needed\nto restore the blasphemous piles of stones, overgrown with weeds, to their former glory. Thus, the\ndeserted monasteries of St. Fru\u0161ka Gora finally welcomed their mitron-bearing builder, restorer and\nendowment. In less than ten years, since his accession to the high throne of the blessed archbishops of\nSremski Karlovci, His Grace the Bishop of Srem Mr. Vasilije, starting from the ruined \u0160i\u0161atovac, managed\nto revive all the monastic families of his diocese. Together with Serbian Patriarch German, in \u0160i\u0161atovac,\nhe laid down the "Charter on the Restoration of Fru\u0161ka Gora Monasteries, 1987", prayerfully\nannouncing their, in history, the most extensive and demanding, and at the same time the fastest and\nmost successful, material and spiritual reconstruction. Today, all these monasteries have been restored\nand decorated, and in 2013, the construction of the last war victim, the Be\u0161enovo monastery, began. At\nthe same time, six new monasteries were founded and built, St. Petka in Berkasovo, St. Vasilije Ostro\u0161ki\nin Man\u0111elos, St. Apostle Mark in Novi Karlovci, St. Sava in Ledinci, St. Archangel Gabriel in Grabovo and\nPresentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sremski Karlovci. Having built a new, magnificent lodging of\nthe Rakovac monastery, as his endowment, His Grace the Bishop of Srem, Mr. Vasilije, ranked among\nthe founders of the Fru\u0161ka Gora sanctuaries.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Thanks to Him, a candle factory was established in Sremski Karlovci and the Serbian monastery printing house was rebuilt. With the paternal care of the Bishop of Srem, Mr. Vasilij, the Sremski Karlovci Theological Seminary of Arsenije Sremac, located in the former palace of the Church and People’s Funds, was revived, in which the classrooms were completely renovated and steam heating was introduced. The buildings of the Seminary, Stefaneum, the Serbian Home (former Municipality), the candle factory and the Church Municipality (crossroads from the Patriarchal Palace) were returned to the wing of the Church. All three churches in Sremski Karlovci regained their old glory, with the restoration of the Cathedral Church of Saint Father Nicholas representing the biggest undertaking. By cooperating with prominent businessmen in Vojvodina, the bishop provided financial resources, thanks to which the poorer theologians are supported.\u00a0<\/p>

His Grace the Bishop of Srem Mr. Vasilije welcomed some of the largest Fru\u0161ka Gora sanctuaries, i.e. the bodies of the Saints, which, after decades of exile, were finally returned to their centuries-old resting places. Thus, in his long and rich career, he experienced the unearthly honor of escorting the relics of the Holy Emperor Uro\u0161 to the restored Jazak monastery or, at least for a short time, laying the remains of the Holy Prince Lazar in Vrdnik-Ravanica, from where he escorted them to his endowment Ravanica monastery near \u0106uprija. He participated in the celebration of the 1700th anniversary of the relics of Saint Theodore Tiron, held in Novi Hopovo, as well as in the celebration of half a millennium since the holy despots Brankovi\u0107 built the Kru\u0161edol monastery. Precisely because of his efforts and love, in the monastery of Beo\u010din, Saint Varnava Hvostan and Beo\u010din was declared a confessor of faith.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBecause of his conscientious administration of his diocese, after the death of Bishop Nikanor (Ili\u010di\u0107),\nfrom 1986 to 1988, he was entrusted with the administration of the Eparchy of Ba\u010dka. For six months he\nalso administered the Eparchy of \u0160abac-Valjevo, after the death of Bishop Jovan (Velimirovi\u0107) in 1989.\nTogether with the Bishop of Ba\u010dka, Dr. Irinej (Bulovi\u0107), in 1991 he founded a new Eparchy of Osijek-\nPoland and Baranja, separating two vicarages from his bishopric, Vukovar and Osijek. By the decision of\nthe Holy Synod of Bishops, he was placed at the head of the newly founded church enterprise "Charity",\nwhich worked within the framework of the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade. This establishment\nconsisted of a patriarchal printing house, a tailor's workshop and a tourist agency, with headquarters in\nBelgrade, as well as a candle factory in Sremski Karlovci. Also, according to the decision of the Holy\nSynod of Bishops, Bishop Mr. Vasilije was entrusted with the construction of the building where the\nmentioned factory is located, the organization of its work and the procurement of the most modern\nequipment for making candles.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHe visited the Holy Land twice and worshiped the shrines there, prayed in front of the relics of Saint\nNektarios of Aegina in Greece, and according to him, whenever he had the opportunity, he made a\npilgrimage to the Hilandar monastery, "where the history of the Serbian people is most eloquently and\nclearly written." As a student from Bucharest, he visited the relics of Saint Petka and other holy places\nof the Romanian Orthodox Church several times, leading his theologians, while he visited the temples of\nMoscow, Petrograd and other Russian cities with the choir of the Eparchy of Srem. Since the beginning\nof the happy administration of His Grace the Bishop of Srem Mr. Vasilije, in Sremsk Karlovci has been\nvisited by the highest and most respected leaders of the Orthodox Church, among them Serbian\nPatriarchs German, Pavle and Irinej, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexey II, Ecumenical Patriarch\nBartholomew, Romanian Patriarchs Teokist and Alexandrian Peter VII .\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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