Condolences for reposed Bishop Atanasije Jevtić

Condolences poured in on Friday for the reposed in the Lord former Bishop of Zahumlje, Herzegovina and the Littoral Atanasije Jevtić. Bishop Jevtić, one of the most significant contemporary theologians of the Serbian Church, reposed on Thursday at the age of 83.

The President of Republika Srpska, Željka Cvijanović, conveyed a message to the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church, where she referred to the “indelible mark left by the hierarch on the faithful people of Herzegovina”.

The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, praised the reposed Bishop as a diligent hierarch and excellent theologian.

“The reposed was demonstrated by a steadfastness to the Orthodox faith, and a paternal love and wisdom as a teacher, cleric and hierarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church,” the Romanian Patriarch said.

In Greece, the Metropolitan of Mesogea and Lavreotiki, His Eminence Nikolaos, spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency, recounting his first meeting with Bishop Atanasije in 1987 in America, as well as the difficult years in the 1990s during the war in the former Yugoslavia. His Eminence touched on the life’s work of the reposed hierarch.

The Metropolitan of Spetses and Aegina, His Eminence also spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency about his long-time friendship and collaboration with the reposed hierarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, stressing that Bishop Atanasije’s legacy is his prolific written work, much of which is in Greek.

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