Seraphim Džarić

Holy New Martyr Seraphim Džarić was an archimandrite and abbot of the Monastery of the Holy Trinity near Pljevlja, in Montenegro. He was born on 15 January 1875 in the village of Hoćevina, near Pljevlja, and died shot at Pljevlja on 1 December 1941.

He was tonsured a monk in 1897 at the Holy Trinity Monastery near Pljevlja, ordained hierodeacon in 1898 and hieromonk in 1900. For many years he was the superior of the Holy Trinity Monastery. The Partisans shot him in the gymnasium building at Pljevlja in December 1941, allegedly for taking part in the "fifth column". He is a hieromartyr recently canonized by the Serbian Church.