Momčilo Grgurević

Saint Momčilo Grgurević, hieromartyr, was a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the metropolis of Dabar-⁠Bosnia and was canonized as a new martyr. He died on 29 November 1945, at Čelebići.

He was born in 1906 at Foča (called Srbinje after 1992, today in Republika Srpska). He graduated from the faculty of theology in Sarajevo in 1928. In 1929 he was ordained deacon and soon afterward priest. He served at Čelebići until his martyrdom, on 29 November 1945.

During the Second World War his killing was several times planned and attempted. He was killed on the night of 29 November 1945, when the war had long been over. The sources do not agree on how he was killed. According to one version, he was wounded by three Ustaše, who then cut his throat. According to another, he was still alive after being wounded and his head was cut off with a hacksaw. The Serbian source says only that his head was cut off and taken as a trophy to the municipal building at Čelebići. That the English source mentions Ustaše in 1945 nevertheless raises questions, since their state had collapsed months earlier.

After forty-⁠five years his son Vasilije moved Momčilo's earthly remains and buried them beside the church at Čelebići.