Sava Saračević

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Bishop Sava of Edmonton
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Church Russian Orthodox Church
See Diocese of Montreal and Canada
Predecessor Vitaly Ustinov
SuccessorVicariate abolished
Orders
Ordination28 September 1958
Consecrationby  Leontius Filippovich  [ ru ]
Personal details
Born
Jovan Saračević

(1902-02-22)22 February 1902
Died30 January 1973(1973-01-30) (aged 70)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Bishop Sava of Edmonton (born Jovan Saračević, Serbian Cyrillic : Јован Сарачевић, [1] 22 February 1902 – 30 January 1973) was a Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. He served as auxiliary bishop of Edmonton, and vicar of the Diocese of Montreal and Canada.

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Biography

Bishop Sava of Edmonton was of Serbian nationality. He was born in the village of Ljutovnica near Belgrade. He studied at the schools of the cities of Čačak and Kragujevac, and graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade. He worked as a lawyer, then as a judge in various cities of Yugoslavia (Trelog, Čačak, Gnjilane, and Belgrade).

While practicing law, he also began studying at the theological faculty of Belgrade University. He graduated in 1943.

After coming to power in Yugoslavia, the Communists began to persecute him as an educated Christian and a man who occupied a prominent place under the old regime. This forced him to leave his homeland.

In early 1948 he went to Buenos Aires, then traveled to Paraguay to meet Bishop Leontius Filippovich  [ ru ], where he joined the monastic community created there by Bishop Leontius. In the same year, Bishop Leontius tonsured him in the Rassophore, and on the Feast of the Annunciation raised him to the office of Deacon.

From Paraguay he returned to Buenos Aires, where on August 28, 1949, Archbishop Panteleimon Rudyk  [ ru ] elevated him to the rank of hieromonk and he became a clergyman of the Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Buenos Aires  [ ru ],. He served there for more than six years.

In December 1956, Bishop Athanasius Martos  [ ru ] entrusted him with the care of the Intercession Church in Temperley  [ ru ], a suburb of Buenos Aires. In May 1958, Archimandrite Sava reached an agreement with the artist LN Ryk-Kovalevskaya, where the latter had to write an icon for the iconostasis. Funds were raised by appealing to the parishioners who had to choose an icon and pay for the letter. Concerts were also held to contribute in building the temple. These initiatives were successful, immediately the raising all necessary funds for the church construction. [2] He served in Temperley until his departure for New York in August 1958.

By the decision of the Holy Synod, he was elected Bishop of Edmonton, vicar of the Archbishop of Montreal and Canada Vitaly Ustinov.

On September 28, 1958, at The Synodal Cathedral of the Sign  [ ru ] in New York, he was ordained Bishop of Edmonton, vicar of the Canadian diocese.

He was an admirer of Archbishop John Maximovich and helped him with legal advice during his trial in San Francisco, which ended with the full justification of the saint. After the death of the Bishop, he collected materials about his life, which became the basis for publications of his work "Orthodox Russia", and then for the book "Chronicle of the veneration of Archbishop John Maximovich." These testimonies played a significant role in the canonization of ROCOR Bishop John in 1994.

Archbishop Athanasius Martos  [ ru ], who personally knew Vladyka Savva in service in Argentina, wrote that among the hierarchs of the Church Abroad, he was an archpastor, outstanding in his education, eloquence and zeal in the ministry of the Church. Metropolitan Hilarion Kapral, whom Bishop Sava inspired to accept monasticism, recalled that he was a man of high spiritual life, always referred to the patristic teaching in the conversations and was unusually kind. [3] [4]

Bishop Sava knew the works of the Church Fathers very well, personally copying them (thus belonging to the ancient monastic tradition, according to which rewriting the writings of the Holy Fathers is an important way to purify the mind for the knowledge of patristic Tradition). He called for the creation of the Brotherhood of Spiritual Renaissance, which promoted the need for intensified prayer for the suffering of Russia. Particular attention was also paid to the care of converts in Canada and the United States.

He retired in September 1971.

He died on January 30, 1973, in Edmonton, Canada. He was buried in the territory of the Holy Intercession Monastery in Bluffton, Alberta, Canada. [5]

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