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A Serbian-American Diocese Is Not Theirs to Settle

PARMA, Ohio — A post from Novi Sad told the Serbs of the Diocese of Eastern America that they are living in fear, named Cleveland, and said the time had come for a sword. It named no one here who had asked for it.

Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in suburban Pittsburgh, a tan concrete church with a bell tower holding three bells beneath a white cross, an American flag on a pole beside the entrance
Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Cathedral, Pittsburgh, cathedral church of the Diocese of Eastern America, where the centennial of the first Serbian Orthodox diocese in the United States and Canada was celebrated in 2021. Photo: Farragutful, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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