Longin Krčo

His Eminence

Longin Krčo
His Eminence; Longin Krčo
Bishop
	Bishop Longin in 2006
Church	Serbian Orthodox Church
Diocese	Eparchy of New Gračanica and Midwestern America
Installed	1999
Predecessor	Irinej Kovačević
Orders
Ordination	1975
Consecration	1985
Personal details
Born	Momir Krčo; 29 September 1955; Olovo, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, FPR Yugoslavia
Denomination	Serbian Orthodox Christian
Previous post(s)	Bishop of Australia and New Zealand (1986–1992)[1] ; Bishop of Dalmatia (1992–1999)[2]

Longin Krčo (Serbian Cyrillic: Лонгин Крчо; born 29 September 1955) is a bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church who became head of the Eparchy of New Gračanica and Midwestern America in October 1999.[3] He is one of the longest-serving Serbian Orthodox bishops, and was the war-time Bishop of Dalmatia.[4]

Life

Early life

He was born on 29 September 1955 to father Stanoje and mother Anđa (née Jovanović). He completed his elementary school in Olovske Luke and he then completed the Three Holy Hierarchs theological school at the Krka monastery. He was ordained a monk (being given the name Longin) in 1975 by the then-Bishop of Dalmatia Stefan (Boca) after receiving the Little Schema as a student of the fifth grade.

Bishop

Bishop Longin was the Bishop of Dalmatia during the war in Croatia from 1992 until 1999.[2] He was unable to take his seat in Šibenik and used the Krka monastery as diocesan headquarters instead.[5]

During Operation Storm, he was located in Australia but he quickly returned.[5] After Operation Storm, he (and the whole seminary from the Krka monastery) stayed at Divčibare near Valjevo until 1999.[2] He returned to Šibenik for the first time in 1998 for a meeting with Croatian bishop Ante Ivas.[6]

References

"ISTORIJA SPC U AUSTRALIJI, NOVOM ZELANDU i JUŽNOJ AFRICI – Strana 19 – Svetosavlje". svetosavlje.org. Retrieved 2019-07-15.
StSavaMonastery.org. "Bishop Longin". Retrieved 2019-09-21.
"Vladika Longin: Čuvar pravoslavlja i svetosavlja". Naši u svetu. 2018-12-20. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
SPC.rs (2014-10-31). "15 година службе епископа Лонгина у Новој Грачаници" (in Serbian). Retrieved 2019-09-21.
IKA.hkm.hr (1995-08-26). "Episkop Longin: SPC nije pozivala Srbe da napuste Hrvatsku" (in Croatian). Retrieved 2019-09-21.
IKA.hkm.hr (1998-06-09). "Prvi put nakon povratka u Šibenik Episkop Longin susreo se s Biskupom Ivasom" (in Croatian). Retrieved 2019-09-21.

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[1] "ISTORIJA SPC U AUSTRALIJI, NOVOM ZELANDU i JUŽNOJ AFRICI – Strana 19 – Svetosavlje". svetosavlje.org. Retrieved 2019-07-15.

[Bio_ref-2] StSavaMonastery.org. "Bishop Longin". Retrieved 2019-09-21.

[3] "Vladika Longin: Čuvar pravoslavlja i svetosavlja". Naši u svetu. 2018-12-20. Retrieved 2019-09-21.

[SPC_ref-4] SPC.rs (2014-10-31). "15 година службе епископа Лонгина у Новој Грачаници" (in Serbian). Retrieved 2019-09-21.

[IKA_ref_1-5] IKA.hkm.hr (1995-08-26). "Episkop Longin: SPC nije pozivala Srbe da napuste Hrvatsku" (in Croatian). Retrieved 2019-09-21.

[IKA_ref_2-6] IKA.hkm.hr (1998-06-09). "Prvi put nakon povratka u Šibenik Episkop Longin susreo se s Biskupom Ivasom" (in Croatian). Retrieved 2019-09-21.