Source: Serbian Orthodox Church
July 4, 2021
His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, officiated the Holy Hierarchical Liturgy and the solemn rite of consecration of the elected and proclaimed Very Venerable Archimandrite Jerotej (Petrovic) to the rank of Bishop of Toplica, Vicar Bishop of the Serbian Patriarch, in the Memorial Cathedral of Saint Sava in the Vracar district, on 4 July 2021.
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At the beginning of solemn rite of consecration, the oldest archimandrite and protodeacon led the elected and proclaimed Bishop through the royal doors unto the soleas, where the hierarchs stood around the Patriarch. On that occasion, after having been introduced three times, holding in his hand a handwritten exposition of the Orthodox faith, to the question of His Holiness Patriarch Porfirije: “Why have you come and what do you want from Our Humbleness?”, the elected and proclaimed Bishop answered: “The consecration of episcopal grace, Your Holiness, with the consent of the clergy of the most holy Diocese of Toplica.” Then, the Patriarch and the hierarchs examined the elected and proclaimed Bishop on what kind of faith he professed, to which he responded with the Nicene Creed and the more extensive confessions of faith expounding dogmas of the Holy Church with vows of fidelity to the Church.
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