Gregory Udicki
Gregory Udicki (Serbian Cyrillic: Григoрије Удицки; Velika Kikinda, then Austria-Hungary, now Serbia, 14 January 1911[1] - Alhambra, California, United States of America, 9 October 1985) was the Serbian Orthodox Church Bishop of Western American Diocese. In 1963 he was appointed bishop along with two others (Stefan Lastavica and Farmilian Ocokoljić) during the time when Bishop Dionisije Milivojević disobeyed the decision of the Bishops' Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church Council to divide the United States amd Canada into three bishoprics and caused a split in the Serbian Church in the diaspora.[2][3][4]
Biography
Born Nikola Udicki, he graduated from Clerical High School of Saint Arsenije in Sremski Karlovci, and then the Theological Faculty of the University of Belgrade.
As a lecturer at the Theological Seminary in Bitola, on 9 August 1936, in the monastery Hilandar, he received his monastic ordination from hieromonk Vasilije Kostić. In the same year he was ordained deacon and presbyter.
As professor of theology, he served in the diocesan administration in Chicago as secretary to the American-Canadian Bishop Damaskin Grdanichki.
For some time he served in the parish in Butte, Montana from where he returned to Bitola before World War II. In Serbia Gregory Udicki, Chrysostom Vojnović and Vasilije Kostić were Justin Popović's closest disciples. [5]
After World War II, Hieromonk Gregory emigrated to United States of America, where he served as a parish priest in Youngwood, Pennsylvania before being elected bishop. In 1957 he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite.
On 27 July 1963, during an extraordinary meeting of the Holy Synod of Bishops, he was elected bishop for the newly-created Western American Diocese.
On 4 August 1963, in the church of St. Simon the Monk in Alhambra, California he was consecrated Bishop of Western America. The consecration was led by Bishops Chrysostom Vojnović of the Diocese of Braničevo, Stefan Lastavica of the Diocese of Eastern America and Canada, and Farmilian Ocokoljić of the Diocese of Midwestern America.
Bishop Gregory died on 9 October 1985 in the Alhambra. The funeral service took place on 15 October 1985, officiated by Bishop Irinej Gavrilović Niš. He was buried in the old Serbian cemetery in Colma, California, just outside of Los Angeles. [6]
References
- ↑ Yearbook of the Orthodox Church. A. Proc. 1978.
- ↑ United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... And Rules Announced at. Banks & Bros., Law Publishers. 1978.
- ↑ Official Reports of the Supreme Court. Supreme Court. 1976.
- ↑ Prodić, Slobodan (2 October 2019). "Serbian Orthodox Church Like Church of Diaspora in Front of Challenges of Everyday Life". Kultura Polisa. 16 (38): 383–394.
- ↑ Justin Popović: Sinteza tradicije i inovacije. Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju. 29 October 2021. ISBN 9788680484600.
- ↑ Вуковић, Сава (владика шумадијски) (1996). Српски јерарси од 9. до 20. века. стр. 143. Београд, Подгорица, Крагујевац: Евро, Унирекс, Каленић.
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