Budimir Sokolović

Holy New Martyr Budimir Sokolović was a protopresbyter of the Serbian Orthodox Church and religious officer at the Supreme Command of the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland, killed by the communist regime in 1945. He was born in 1910 at Tegare near Bratunac. He finished the seminary at Cetinje in 1931, and the next year was ordained deacon and priest. In 1942 he was serving in the Zlatibor deanery, from which he withdrew with the army of Draža Mihailović.

The end of the war found him at Aranđelovac, where the new communist authorities arrested him together with the deacon Boško Živadinović and the protopresbyter Svetolik Švabić. They were taken first to Kalinovik, then to Miljevina near Foča. Without a concrete charge and without trial, the priests were cruelly tortured and then killed, being thrown into the Ponor pit beside the road from Miljevina to Foča, where many thousands of young men of the Yugoslav army in the Homeland were also thrown.

The Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church numbered him among the holy hieromartyrs. His commemoration, together with the other priests killed by the communist regime from the Metropolis of Dabar-⁠Bosnia and Miles, is kept on 11 July (new style).