{"id":980,"date":"2014-01-14T11:31:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T11:31:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-04-13T00:28:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T22:28:18","slug":"new-head-of-orthodox-church-of-czech-lands-and-slovakia-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxalbania.org\/2020\/en\/2014\/01\/14\/new-head-of-orthodox-church-of-czech-lands-and-slovakia-elected\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW HEAD OF ORTHODOX CHURCH OF CZECH LANDS AND SLOVAKIA ELECTED. (11 January 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&nbsp; The extraordinary 13th Local Council of the Church of Czech Lands and Slovakia took place on January 11, 2014, in Presov (Slovakia).<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Council had supported the decision of the Holy Synod of the Church of Czech Lands and Slovakia to elect Bishop Joachim of Hodonin as Archbishop of Prague and Czech Lands.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Then, in accordance with the Constitution (Statute) of the Church of Czech Lands and Slovakia, the Council by an absolute majority vote elected Archbishop Rostislav of Presov and Slovakia as Metropolitan of Czech Lands and Slovakia.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Archbishop of Presov, Metropolitan-elect of the Czech Lands and Slovakia Rostislav, was born on January 25, 1978, in Snina (Slovakia). He graduated from the faculty of Orthodox Theology of the University of Presov (2002), and studied in the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki. He served as a priest in an Orthodox parish of Slovakia and also gave a spiritual guidance to an orphanage in Medzilaborets.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; On October 8, 2012, he was raised to the rank of Igumen. On November 18 of the same year he was consecrated Bishop of Presov. In July 2013 he led the delegation of the Church of Czech Lands and Slovakia at the celebrations, dedicated to the 1025th anniversary of Baptism of Russia in Moscow, Kiev, and Minsk.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The extraordinary 13th Local Council of the Church of Czech Lands and Slovakia took place on January 11, 2014, in Presov (Slovakia). &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Council had supported the decision of the Holy Synod of the Church of Czech Lands and Slovakia to elect Bishop Joachim of Hodonin as Archbishop of Prague and Czech Lands. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Then, in accordance with the Constitution (Statute) of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","inline_featured_image":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1455,311],"tags":[1145,1233],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en","category-news-d25","tag-2014-en","tag-declarations-official-announcements"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NEW HEAD OF ORTHODOX CHURCH OF CZECH LANDS AND SLOVAKIA ELECTED. 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