MISSIONARY DEPARTMENT AEM

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Missionary Department

Archdiocese of Belgrade-Karlovci

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The Section for apologetic mission

The Section for apologetic mission is aimed at dealing with a deluge of sectarianism, guruism, and New Age movements in our country. It also plays a role in the specialised training of AEM priesthood concerning the response to systematic sectarian and anti-church activities. A special endeavour of this section includes regular monitoring of cult activities, timely reporting of such activities to the relevant church authorities and formulating an adequate apologetic response to them.

The range of this section’s activities includes notifying the general public about the various manifestations  and forms of cultic and manipulative activities, uncovering the deceitful skills that are most commonly used, putting together specialist brochures and promoting specialist workshops, round table discussions, lectures, conferences and seminars in this field.

The coordinator of the Section for apologetic mission is a sectologist Zoran Lukovic, a FECRIS member.

Protopresbyter-Staurophorus Vajo Jović

Protopresbyter-Staurophorus Vajo Jović was born in 1956 in Ugljevik, Srpska.

Priest in Zagreb and Secretary of the Diocesan Board of the Metropolis of Zagreb and Ljubljana since 1979.
From Zagreb, he served the missionary parish in Maribor.
Parish priest at the Church of St. Alexander Nevsky in Belgrade since 1991.
Since 2000, Elder of the same church and Director of the Orthodox Missionary School until his retirement in 2023.

Forty-two years of priestly service are characterized by intensive missionary work.

Recipient of the Order of St. Sava, third degree.

Protopresbyter-Staurophor Radivoj Panić

Protopresbyter-Staurophor Radivoj Panić is the coordinator of the Parish Mission Department of the Missionary Department of the Archbishopric of Belgrade-Karlovci. He was born on April 1, 1961 in Novi Sad. He completed the seminary in Sremski Karlovci in 1981.

From 1986 to 1991, he was engaged as a librarian at the Orthodox Theological Faculty in Belgrade.

He was ordained to the priesthood in 1992. He began his pastoral ministry as a parish priest in Kosova Polje, where he served from 1992 to 2001. After that, from 2001 to 2009, he was the parish priest at the Church of St. Alexander Nevsky, and since 2009 he has served as the parish priest at the Church of St. Sava. He completed his theological studies in 2008, at a time when he was already serving as a parish priest.

He is particularly involved in organizing pilgrimages to Kosovo and Metohija, as well as in humanitarian work. He collaborates with the organization “Our Serbs” from Chicago, through which he actively participates in providing assistance to the Serbian people in Serbia and Kosovo and Metohija, as well as in supporting domestic organizations operating in these areas.

Father Radivoj Panić is considered one of the most respected priests of the Archbishopric of Belgrade and Karlovac.