On Saint Justin (Popović) of Ćelije’s relationship with the Ecumenist Patriarch German (Đorić) of Serbia

 

“Saint Justin did not concelebrate with Patriarch German, nor did he commemorate him, but he commemorated his own bishop, Jovan Velimirović [of Šabac and Valjevo, nephew of St. Nikolai of Ohrid and Žiča], who was not an ecumenist. Patriarch German knew very well Father Justin’s answer to his desire to come to Ćelije Monastery and serve. Saint Justin sent him word through the abbess of Ćelije [Mother Sara (Vasiljević)]: he may come; he will enter through one gate, and I will go out through the other; let him serve, and I shall go into the forest until he leaves.”

Serbian source: Хорепископ Максим: Допринос исправном схватању и примени 15. канона Прводругог цариградског сабора [A Contribution to the Correct Understanding and Application of Canon 15 of the First-Second Council of Constantinople], by Chorbishop Maxim of Novo Brdo and Panonia, dated May 21, 2016:

https://www.eparhija-prizren.org/horepiskop-maksim-doprinos-ispravnom-shvatanju-i-primeni-15-kanona-prvodrugog-carigradskog-sabora/