Nikolic Met With Patriarch Theophilus III

Maja Radojcic | E-Mail: maja@inserbia.info 

3/5/13

Theophilus III welcomed the Serbian president, as he put it, both as a political leader and as a pilgrim, adding that he knows that Kosovo is “Serbia’s Jerusalem” and that he is aware of the suffering the Serbian people are going through.

“I want to thank you for everything you are doing for the Christian Orthodox religion and the Serbian people in particular,” Nikolic said in Jerusalem.
“In these days of the last week of the Great Fast, only a sign from God could bring us here, to this holy place,” the Serbian president said.

He conveyed the greetings of Patriarch Irinej of the Serbian Orthodox Church to Theophilus III and invited him to come to Serbia and attend the celebration of 1700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan.

The Jerusalem patriarch presented Nikolic with a medal of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
“It is a great honor to be given this medal. I see it as a decoration for martyred Serbian people and martyred Serbian Orthodox Church,” President Nikolic stressed.

Theophilus III voiced satisfaction with this meeting and pointed to close historical ties between Serbia and the Jerusalem patriarchate.

You have come to Jerusalem both as a political leader and a pilgrim, Theophilus III said.

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