Father Deacon Vasilije Vranic

Rev. Deacon Vasilije Vranic, BDiv, MA, MPhil (Cantab.)

Director of Religious Education

I was born in Sarajevo, of the late Perisa Vranic, Protopresbyter,
and Jelena Vranic, Professor of Music. As a son of a priest I started to
come regularly to the Church to attend all the services and thus the Church
became my second home. It was my great pleasure and indeed an honor
to be with my father who was celebrating the Liturgy and to help him in the
altar. Around that time I have made firm decision about what I wanted to
do in my life.

After I completed the elementary school I moved to Belgrade and enrolled
into the Seminary. After finishing three years at the St Sava Seminary in
Belgrade I was invited by Hilandar monastery to continue my education
on the Holy Mountain Athos, from where I graduated in 1996. Then I received a scholarship from the
Lutheran Church of Germany to spend a year in Sibiu (Romania) learning German at the Goethe
Institute.

After finishing the course I spent one year in Belgrade teaching Greek at the Public University 'Bozidar
Adzija' (an alternative school). In the following year I enrolled into the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox School
of Theology in Libertyville (USA) from where I graduated in June 2002. In October of the same year, I
moved to Cambridge in order to pursue MA in Pastoral Theology, which I obtained in April 2004. In
October 2004 I continued in Cambridge with MPhil in Church History. I graduated from there in July
2005. In October of the same year I was ordained a Deacon in the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox
Cathedral in Milwaukee . To my great joy I was also appointed Assistant Principal and Director of
Religious Education at the St. Sava Orthodox School.

I hope that with the assistance of our parishioners and students' parents I will be able to stand up to the
task entrusted to me. I also look forward to the successful fulfilment of my new responsibilities and to
many years of fruitful cooperation to our mutual satisfaction.