The New Serbian Patriarch and the Burden of Old Territorial Problems

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This article was written for and first appeared in Public Orthodoxy on 18 February 2021.

Church of Saint Sophia Ohrid; Source: Public Orthodoxy 

Of all the Orthodox churches, the Serbian church was hit the hardest by the Covid pandemic, which resulted in the death of its Patriarch Irinej as well as that of the highest bishop in neighborin…