Vasiljevic, Maxim

1. Entity type Person
2. Name in other language Vasiljevic, Maksim (en)
3. Birth date 27 June 1968
4. Birth place Foča
5. Gender Name Male
6. Given Name
   1. Vasiljevic, Milan
7. Biographical Data

   1. Maksim Vasiljevic is the Bishop at the Diocese of Western America under the jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Church. The Bishop is also Full Professor at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology, University of Belgrade, where he often relates science and religion in his study and teaching. He taught subjects at PhD studies such as ‘’Theology and Medicine in Dialogue”, in the scope of which a plethora of questions regarding science and religion have been discussed.

      Bishop Maxim graduated from the Faculty of Orthodox Theology at the University of Belgrade in 1993. He received Master degree of Theology at the University of Athens in 1996.  Three years later he defended his Doctoral degree at the University of Athens in the field of dogmatics and patristics. From 2003 to 2004, he worked on his post‐doctorate degree in Paris and then at Sorbonne in the field of Byzantine history and hagiography.

      During this time, he also engaged into the theory and practical application of painting at the French Academy of Fine Arts in Paris.

      Bishop Maxim was elected Bishop of the Western American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America at the regular assembly of the Hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade, Serbia, in 2006.

      Apart from his Archpastoral duties in the Western American Diocese, Bishop Maxim is a Professor of patrology at the St. Sava School of Theology in Libertyville, Illinois. He is the editor of Theology, the 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 Fr. Stamatis, a famous iconographer from Athens, Greece.

       

       

8. Electronic Location 30/03/2018