BIOGRAPHY
The Right Reverend Bishop Maxim
Bishop of the Western American Diocese
of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North
and South America
His Grace Bishop Maxim (Vasiljevic) of Hum was elected Bishop of the Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South American at the regular assembly of the Hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade, Serbia in 2006. Bishop Maxim is docent of the Divinity School at the Theological Faculty of the University of Belgrade, and was teaching Christian Anthropology and Sociology at the
University of East Sarajevo.
His Grace Bishop Maxim graduated from the Theological Faculty of the Serbian Orthodox
Church in 1993. He completed his Masters of Theology at the University of Athens in 1996, and then three years later, in 1999, at the same university, he defended his doctorate in the field of Dogmatics and Patristics. He worked for one year on his post-doctorate in Paris and the Sorbonne in 2003-04, in the field of Byzantine History and Hagiography. During this time, he also delved in the theory and practical application of painting at the French Academy of Fine Arts in Paris. Bishop Maxim speaks Greek, French, Russian and English.
Currently, as well as fulfilling his Archpastoral duties in the Western American Diocese, His Grace Bishop Maxim is a Professor of Patrology at the St. Sava School of Theology in Libertyville, Illinois. He is the editor of “Theology” – Journal of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology, University of Belgrade.
He also leads the Diocesan iconographical school inspired by Byzantine and Serbian medieval fresco painting and by Fr. Stamatis, a famous Iconographer from Athens, Greece.
Bishop Maxim’s scholarly studies and articles include essays on Holy Fathers and Saints; he has also written on the hagiographical and iconographical themes.
Some recent publications:
“An existential interpretation of dogmatics: Theological language and dogma in the face of the culture of pluralism“, St Vladimir’s Seminary Quarterly 51 (2007),
395-422.
“La conception de la sainteté dans l’oeuvre hagiographique de Syméon le Métaphraste“, Revue des Études Byzantines 66 (2008) p. 191-207.
“Holy Icons and the ultimate state of being“, Annual 2007 of the Western American Diocese, Los Angeles 2007, 37-39.
“The Orthodox Marriage and Family“, a lecture given at the KSS Annual Retreat in Jackson, 2007 (to be published).
St John the Chrysostom, Commemoration of the 1600th Anniversary of the Repose of St. John Chrysostom, St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church, November 13-14, 2007
http://www.westsrbdio.org/latest_news/Visits_Fall2007/PanOrth_Liturgyi.html
“Ecclesiological provincialism compared to the Church's concrete unity",
The Path of Orthodoxy, May 2007.
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EPISCOPAL
HEADQUARTERS
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Office (626) 289-9061
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OFFICE OF THE
CHANCELLOR
Assistant Chancellor
Hiromonk Jovan Babic
Episcopal Secretary
Aleksandra Ceko
Episcopal Deputy
V. Rev. Protopresbyter Stavrophor Petar Jovanovic
EPISCOPAL DEANS
Los Angeles Deanery
V. Rev. Protopresbyter Stavrophor Nikola Ceko
Jackson Deanery
V. Rev. Protopresbyter Dane Popovic
Butte Deanery
V. Rev. Protopresbyter
Ilija Balach
San Francisco Deanery
V. Rev. Protopresbyter Dusan Bunjevic
DIOCESAN ECCLESIASTICAL COURT
Right Reverend Bishop Maxim, President
V. Rev. Protopresbyter Stavrophor
Petar Jovanovic, Secretary
V. Rev. Protopresbyter Stavrophor
Velimir Petakovic, Member
V. Rev. Protopresbyter Stavrophor
Bozidar Draskovic, Member
V. Rev. Protopresbyter Janko Trbovic, Alternate
DIOCESAN COUNCIL
Rt. Rev. Bishop Maxim,
President
Ronald Radakovich, Vice President
V. Rev. Protopresbyter Stavrophor Petar Jovanovic,
Episcopal Deputy
Obren Gerich, Treasurer
V. Rev. Protopresbyter Stavrophor Janko Trbovic
Mimo Papich
V. Rev. Protopresbyter Stavrophor Velimir Petakovic,
Advisor Emeritus
Dr. Debra Tasic
V. Rev. Protopresbyter Stavrophor Nikola Ceko
Ron Mucovich
Rev. Presbyter Stephen Tumbas
Ilija Cvetich
V. Rev. Protopresbyter Bratislav Krsic, Alternate
Chris Nikcevic
V. Rev. Protopresbyter Stavrophor Milan Vukovic,
Alternate
Mary Ann Plefka
George Paich, Alternate
Mark Lucich
DIOCESAN ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD
Rt. Rev. Bishop Maxim,
President
Ronald Radakovich,
Vice President
V. Rev. Petar Jovanovic, Episcopal Deputy
V. Rev. Protopresbyter Stavrophor Velimir Petakovich,
Advisor Emeritus
V. Rev. Protopresbyter Stavrophor Nikola Ceko
Obren Gerich
Wayne Papac
FINANCIAL AUDIT BOARD
Milan Cheyovich, Vojin
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