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Hieromartyr

Dobrosav (Soković)

of Sjeverin

A hieromartyr of Sjeverin who suffered for Christ in 1941.

Feast
July 5old style July 18
Reposed
194120th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Dobrosav (Soković) of Sjeverin was born in 1915 in the village of Mokronoge, near Višegrad. After the seminary in Sarajevo he received the priesthood in 1939. The Ustaše killed him in Sarajevo in the summer of 1941. He is among the new martyrs of Dabar-⁠Bosnia and Mileševa, numbered among the saints by the Serbian Orthodox Church; their commemoration is on 5 July, old style (18 July, new style).

Commemorated the same day July 5