MISSIONARY DEPARTMENT AEM

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Missionary Department

Archdiocese of Belgrade-Karlovci

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The Section for electronic mission

The Section for electronic mission is aimed towards covering the digital space of the Archbishopric of Belgrade and Karlovci, with the maximum utilisation of the internet technologies’ potential, in order to make Orthodox Christianity and church life more accessible to a wider audience. Examining the opportunities for using IT technologies for the development of  internet-led missionary work, used for spreading the Gospel, will be the main strategic aim of this Section.

The main aims of this section include expanding the Church mission into the Internet sphere, promoting Christian values and way of life over the internet, and incentivising further the use of IT technologies in the service of the Church, with a constant emphasis on the need for a direct, physical experience of church life, through personal participation in the liturgical life of the church.

This section also provides the necessary technical support to the other sections, primarily in the field of linking the contents of missionary internet portals, the publishing of media materials and the creation of internet video channels with the participation of the chosen AEM (Archbishopric of Belgrade and Karlovci) priests. A special purpose of this section is the cooperation with the AEM priests and RE teachers who are active in the internet sphere, as well as the training of the priests and RE teachers interested in the internet mission and involvement in the mass media sphere.

The coordinator of the Section for electronic mission is an IT specialist dr Nenad Badovinac

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.