Vikentije II, Serbian Patriarch

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Vikentije (II) (

Vikentije was a historian and a member of the Society of Historians of Vojvodina. He also was editor-in-chief of its gazette.^[citation needed]

Bishop

Vikentije remained an auxiliary bishop until 1939 when he was elected Bishop of Zletovo and Strumica. In 1940, he was additionally assigned the task of administrating the Eparchy of Ohrid and Bitola. After the Germans and Bulgarians occupied his eparchies in 1941, he was exiled by Bulgarian fascists and fled to Belgrade. After World War II, the Communist regime of Yugoslavia did not allow him to return to his duties because they wanted to create a separate Macedonian Orthodox Church. From 1947 to 1950, Vikentije was the administrator of the Eparchy of Žiča. ^{[citation needed]}

Patriarch

Vikentije was elected Serbian Patriarch on 14 July 1950. He placed enormous energy into trying to resolve the problem of Pension Security funds for priests of the Serbian Church. Vikentije was the first Serbian Patriarch to visit Russia in almost 50 years.^[2] He was strongly opposed to the splitting of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the creation of a separate Macedonian Church.

Patriarch Vikentije died on 5 July 1958 under mysterious circumstances (like Patriarch Varnava) after a session of the Holy Assembly of bishops at which the assembly rejected suggestions from the communist regime to approve the establishment of a separate Macedonian Orthodox Church. He was buried in the tomb of Metropolitan Mihailo in the St. Michael's Cathedral in Belgrade.

See also

• List of 20th-century religious leaders

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