Mateja Matejić
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Mateja Matejić | |
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| Born | 19 February 1924 |
| Died | 27 July 2018 (aged 94) Columbus, Ohio, United States |
| Occupation(s) | Serbian Orthodox priest, writer, and professor |
Mateja Matejić (
Serbian Orthodox priest, and Professor Emeritus of Slavic languages and Literatures at Ohio State University.[1]
Biography
Matejić was born in
Srem
(who preceded him in death on 17 April 2016).
He was ordained as a Serbian Orthodox priest in a camp in 1951. He and his young family emigrated to the United States in 1956. As a priest, he founded two parishes and encouraged and physically contributed to the building of two places of worship, the Church of St. George in Monroe, Michigan (where he served from 1956 to 1967), and the Church of St. Stevan of Dečani in Columbus, Ohio (where he served from 1967 until his retirement in 1990).[2]
He graduated from the University of Michigan where he received his Ph.D.[3]
Mateja Matejić was a founder of the
Patriarch Pavle in Belgrade
.
Works
- Na stazama izbeglickim: srpsko pesnistvo u izbeglistvu 1945-1968 (On Exile Paths: Serbian Poetry Diaspora 1945–1968) in Serbian co-author Bor. M. Karapandzic (1969)
- A Brief History of the Russian Orthodox Church in English
- Biography of Saint Sava in English (1976)
- An Anthology of Medieval Serbian Literature in English co-author Dragan Milivojevic (1978)
- The Holy Mount and Hilandar Monastery in English (1983)
- Relationship between the Russian and the Serbian Churches through the centuries in English (1988)
- Kosovo and Vidovdan After Six Hundred Years in English (1992)
- Troubles in Chiiandar in Serbian (1994)
- Scriptural instructions for Christian life in English (1997)
- Hilandar manuscript / Hilandarski rukopis in English and Serbian (1998)
- Remaining Unchanged in Serbian (1998)
- The oldest Christian liturgy in English (1999)
- A festschrift for Leon Twarog in English co-editor Irene Masing-Delic (2001)
External links
- The Hilandar Research Library (website) has the largest collection of microfilmin the world.
- ^ "Mateja Matejic". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
- ^ "In Memoriam: Very Rev. Dr. Mateja Matejic".
- ^ "Протојереј-ставрофор др Матеја Матејић". borbazaveru.info/. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
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