Legal Opinion
Vukovich v. Radulovich
California Court of Appeal
Decided October 17, 1991No. C009041PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
SIMS, J.
—St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church of Jackson, California (St. Sava) was formerly affiliated with the Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the United States and Canada, which in turn was a subordinate body of the Serbian Orthodox Church (the Mother Church), a hierarchical church centered in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
Following the defrocking by the Mother Church in 1963 of the bishop who presided over the Church in America and the reorganization of the American Church into three dioceses, including the Western Diocese (the Diocese), St. Sava chose to separate from the Mother Church and…
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