METROPOLITAN IRINEJ STATED: We are founding a church university, because the state ones have experienced a true cataclysm!

Metropolitan Irinej of Novi Sad and Bačka stated that the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) is founding a church university, that religious communities in other countries have that right, and that the existing state universities in Serbia have experienced a “cataclysm.”

Regarding the news that preparations are underway for the founding of the Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox University, he stated in an Easter interview with radio “Slovo ljubve” that all European universities, from the 11th century onwards, “emerged from former modest monastery schools.”

“We are founding a church university, but whoever does not want to study at a church university does not have to. More concern should be shown regarding what kind of cataclysm the state university or state universities in our country have experienced. Does the Church only in Serbia, in the name of secularity, not have the right to what it has the right to today in all organized and democratic countries? Why can all those people now, without anyone’s malicious comments, go abroad or to private faculties, but cannot go to a faculty that will be under the aegis of our Church, which for centuries both inspired and was the patron of education and culture among our people,” stated Metropolitan Irinej.

The interview with the Metropolitan will be on the “Slovo ljubve” program on Easter at 8 PM, the SPC announced.