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Hieromartyr

Jaša Stepanov

Serbian hieromartyr

A hieromartyr honored among the saints who taught and studied at the Belgrade theological school; canonized by the Serbian Church.

Era
20th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

The holy hieromartyr Jaša Stepanov was a priest, parish priest at Plaški, in the diocese of Gornji Karlovac, and is numbered among the holy martyrs of that diocese. He studied at the Faculty of Theology in Belgrade until 1939. His commemoration belongs to the Synaxis of the Saints who taught and studied at the Theological School of Belgrade, whose celebration was ordered by Patriarch Porfirije in February 2024, pending the official decision.

The sources say only that he was parish priest at Plaški and that he was killed in the time of the war. The martyrs of the diocese of Gornji Karlovac were killed in 1941 and in the following years. No other details of his life survive.