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Hieromartyr

Milorad (Vukojičić)

A hieromartyr of the Serbian Orthodox Church, killed in 1945.

Feast
July 5old style July 18
Reposed
194520th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Milorad (Vukojičić) of Ilino Brdo was born in 1917 at Pljevlja. He finished the seminary in Sarajevo and was ordained priest in 1940. The military court in Pljevlja sentenced him to death as a Chetnik. He was shot in 1945. 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