The Missionary Department of AEM Launches its Official English Website

The Missionary Department of AEM officially launched the English version of its website at mission.rs on June 3, 2024, on the feast day of Saints Constantine and his mother Helena. It has been launched in order to expand further the mission work of the Archbichopric of Belgrade and Karlovci in terms of its external mission, concerning the foreign nationals who live and work in Belgrade.

In addition to the general information about the Department, the English version of the website also includes the news about the activities of the Missionary Department of AEM, as well as a blog section, featuring the articles written by the Department’s coordinators. In the following period, translations of the multimedia missionary content from the Department’s You Tube channel will gradually be introduced.

Apart from the main website, the accompanying English-language pages have been launched on social media networks, such as Facebook (missionary.department), Instagram (@missionary.department), and Twitter (@md_aem), in order to achieve broader electronic missionary coverage.

The English version of the website gives an opportunity for all foreign nationals, currently residing in Belgrade, who are interested in Orthodox Christianity, to contact members of the Department and receive prompt answers to their queries in English, via email.

May our Lord Jesus Christ, through the prayers of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Emperor Constantine and his mother Helena, bless the launch of the English version of the Missionary Department of AEM’s website, to the glory of the One Triune God. Amen.  

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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.