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His Holiness Patriarch '''Pavel (StojcevicStojčević) of Serbia''' (in Serbian: Његова светост '''Павле''' по милости Бо-ијој православни Архиепископ пећки, Митрополит београдско-карловачки и Патријарх српски) is the current [[patriarch]] of the [[Church of Serbia]]. His Holiness' full title is ''[[Archbishop]] of Peć, [[Metropolitan]] of Belgrade and KarlovciKarlovac, and Patriarch of the Serbs''.
== Early life ==
Pavel was born [[September 11]], 1914, to Stefan and Ana Stojcevic Stojčević (Стефан и Ана Стојчевић), in the village of Kučani, in the county of Donji Miholjac, in SlavonijaCroatia. His [[baptism]]al name was Gojko (Гојко).
He graduated with high honors from the Fourth Male Gymnasium (high school) in Belgrade 1929. He also graduated from the [[seminary]] in Sarajevo in 1935, аnd from the Orthodox Theological Faculty in Belgrade in 1940. He did postgraduate studies at the Orthodox Theological Faculty at the University of Athens from 1955 to 1957. During his stay in Greece, he studied the [[New Testament]] and developed an expertise in liturgics, which resulted in the Patriarch becoming one of the most prolific liturgical writers in the Serbian Church. For his patient and prominent work in the field of theology, the Theological Faculty of the Serbian Orthodox Church awarded His Holiness an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity.
