Bishops' Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church

Bishops attending the 70th anniversary of the Novi Sad raid, 23 January 2012.

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The Council of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church, also known in English as the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church (Serbian: Свети архијерејски сабор Српске православне цркве, romanized: Sveti arhijerejski sabor Srpske pravoslavne crkve) serves by Church constitution as the supreme body of the Serbian Orthodox Church. It is the supreme organ of the legislative authority of the Church in matters of faith, worship, church order or church discipline, and the internal organization of the Church. It is also the highest judicial authority in its jurisdiction. It is convened annually in May. In case of emergency, it can also be summoned at any other time.

The Bishops' Council consists of all diocesan bishops and the Patriarch, Porfirije, who serves as the Chairman. Its decisions are recognized as valid if, at their adoption, more than half of the diocesan bishops are present at the meeting of the Council. Only they can take part in voting on a particular issue. With an equal number of votes, the voice of the Patriarch is decisive.^[1][2]

Current members[]

Archdiocese	See	Head	Website
Belgrade and Karlovci[a]	Belgrade	Porfirije	[1] Archived 2020-01-03 at the Wayback Machine
Metropolitanate	See	Metropolitan[3]	Website
Dabar and Bosnia	Sarajevo	Hrizostom (Jević)	[2]
Montenegro and the Littoral	Cetinje	Joanikije (Mićović)	[3]
Zagreb and Ljubljana	Zagreb	Vacant since 2021, administered by the Patriarch	[4]
Australia and New Zealand	Sydney[4]	Siluan (Mrakić)	[5]
Eparchy	See	Bishop[3]	Website
Austria and Switzerland	Vienna	Andrej (Ćilerdžić)	[6]
Bačka	Novi Sad	Irinej (Bulović)	[7]
Banat	Vršac	Nikanor (Bogunović)	[8]
Banja Luka	Banja Luka	Jefrem (Milutonović)
Bihać and Petrovac	Bosanski Petrovac	Sergije (Karanović)	[9]
Braničevo	Požarevac	Ignatije (Midić)
Britain and Scandinavia	Stockholm[5]	Dositej (Motika)	[10]
Buda	Sentandreja	Lukijan (Pantelić)	[11]
Budimlja-Nikšić	Đurđevi Stupovi, Berane	Metodije (Ostojić)	[12]
Buenos Aires, South and Central America	Buenos Aires	Kirilo (Bojović)	[13]
Canada	Campbellville, Ontario	Mitrofan (Kodić)	[14]
Dalmatia	Šibenik	Nikodim (Kosović)	[15]
Düsseldorf and all of Germany	Düsseldorf	Grigorije (Durić)	[16]
Eastern America	Mars, Pennsylvania	Irinej (Dobrijević)	[17]
Kruševac	Kruševac	David (Perović)[6]	[18]
Mileševa	Mileševa, Prijepolje	Atanasije (Rakita)[7]	[19]
New Gračanica and Midwestern America	Third Lake, Illinois[8]	Longin (Krčo)	[20]
Niš	Niš	Arsenije (Glavčić)	[21]
Osječko polje and Baranja	Dalj[9]	Heruvim (Đermanović)	[22]
Ras and Prizren	Prizren	Teodosije (Šibalić)	[23]
Šabac	Šabac	Lavrentije (Trifunović)[10]	[24]
Slavonia	Pakrac	Jovan (Ćulibrk)	[25]
Srem	Sremski Karlovci	Vasilije (Vadić)	[26]
Šumadija	Kragujevac	Jovan (Mladenović)[11]	[27]
	Timișoara	Vacant since 1932, administered by the Bishop of Buda[12]	[28]
	Zaječar	Ilarion (Golubović)	[29]
Upper Karlovac	Karlovac	Gerasim (Popović)[13]	[30]
Valjevo	Valjevo	Isihije (Rogić)	[31]
	Vranje	Pahomije (Gačić)[14]	[32]
Western America	Alhambra, California	Maksim (Vasiljević)	[33]
Western Europe	Paris	Luka (Kovačević)	[34]
Zahumlje and Herzegovina	Mostar[15][16]	Dimitrije (Rađenović)	[35]
Žiča	Žiča, Kraljevo	Justin (Stefanović)	[36]
Zvornik and Tuzla	Tuzla, temp. Bijeljina	Fotije (Sladojević)[17]	[37]
Vicar	See	Bishop[3]	Website
	Cetinje	Vacant since 2021	[38]
	Düsseldorf	Jovan (Stanojević)
	Belgrade	Justin (Jeremić)
Jegra	Novi Sad	Vacant since 2016
		Vacant since 2014
	Belgrade	Sava (Bundalo)
	Novi Sad	Damaskin (Grabež)
	Moscow	Antonije (Pantelić)
	Belgrade	Jerotej (Petrović)
	Belgrade	Stefan (Šaric)
Autonomous Ohrid Archbishopric
Metropolitanate	See	Metropolitan[3]	Website
Skopje	Skopje, temp. Bitola	Jovan VI (Vraniškovski)	[39]
Diocese	See	Bishop[3]	Website
	Štip	Marko (Kimev)[18]	[40]
Debar and Kičevo	Debar	Vacant, administered by the Bishop of Polog and Kumanovo[19]	[41]
Polog and Kumanovo	Kumanovo	Joakim (Jovčeski)[20]	[42]
	Bitola	Vacant, administered by the Bishop of Bregalnica Marko[21]	[43]
	Strumica	Vacant, administrated by David (Ninov), Vicar Bishop of Stobi[22]	[44]
	Veles	Vacant, administrated by Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje[23]	[45]
Vicar	See	Bishop[3]	Website
		Vacant
		David (Ninov)
		Vacant

See also[]

• Serbian Orthodox Church#Structure
• Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church

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