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- Nikola Tesla

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt

While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson

Serbian Movie Festival 2017

To Preserve Serbian Cultural Heritage & to Enrich and Promote Greater Pittsburgh’s Cultural Diversity

Friday, March 17th to Saturday March 18th, 2017
University of Pittsburgh
Cathedral of Learning
Room 232
4200 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

FREE ADMISSION – OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Sponsored by the Serb National Federation, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Embassy of the Republic of Serbia, Washington, D.C., & Kosutnjak Film, Belgrade
FRIDAY, MARCH 17 AT 6:00 P.M.

SATURDAY, MARCH 18 AT 12:00 P.M.

For more information please contact the SNF at 412-458-5227 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Bishop Damaskin (Grdanički)

Bishop Dr. Damaskin (Grdanicki)
The vacant episcopal post of the American-Canadian Diocese was filled on June 22, 1938 at the Regular Session of the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Elected as its second Diocesan Hierarch was Bishop Dr. Damaskin (Grdanicki) of Mukachevo and Priashevo.

Bishop Damaskin was born in Leskovac in 1892. He graduated from the nine year St. Sava Seminary in Belgrade, while simultaneously attending the Belgrade Music School. After finishing the Seminary, he taught music at the First High School in Kragujevac. Received into the monastic order at Rakovica Monastery by Archimandrite Platon, later martyred as Bishop of Banja Luka, he studied at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy where he received a Master's Degree in Theology in 1917. He then went to Freiburg, Switzerland where he obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy.

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In the Mirror

In the Mirror

A Collection of Iconographic Essays and Illustrations

By Fr. Stamatis Skliris

The Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Western America is pleased to announce the publication of an outstanding book by Fr. Stamatis Skliris, a disciple of the great twentieth-century theologians Archimandrite Justin Popovich and Bishop Athanasius Yevtich. Fr. Stamatis is a parish priest in Athens and is renowned as an iconographer and as a writer and lecturer on Byzantine iconography.

In the Mirror is the second of a planned collection of works of contemporary theologians. It is an anthology of Fr. Stamatis’ articles which have appeared in Greek and Serbian. In it, he combines adherence to the teachings of the Church Fathers with a vibrant expression of faith through the experience of Christ in the Church. The book is adorned with more than 200 striking icons and illustrations by Fr. Stamatis.

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