Archimandrite Pajsije (Tanasijevic) of St. Prochorus of Pchinja Monastery, Serbia, passed away on this day in 2003. Archimandrite Pajsije (Tanasijevic) was born on July 7, 1957, in Srebrenica. From his youth, he dedicated his life to God. He attended the monastery school of the famous Serbian monastery of Ostrog. After a pilgrimage to Mt. Athos, he became a monk and was tonsured in 1979 in the Visoki Decani monastery by the future Patriarch Pavle, then bishop of Raska and Prizren. Later on, Fr. Pajsije moved to Mt. Athos, and upon receiving the Great Schema in 1989, he was elected an Abbot of Hilandar monastery. He also served as a Protos of Mt. Athos (an official representative elected by all the monasteries to represent them at Protaton in Karyes) for one year and is known as the youngest protos in the history of Holy Mount Athos. Fr. Pajsije learned the Byzantine chant from Gregoriou monastery fathers and deacon Dionysios Firfiris. He was an excellent psaltis with traditional Athonite ethos. For all his monastic years in Hilandar and after, he had a blessing of spiritual guidance from holy Elder Paisios of Mt. Athos, whom he visited often. In 1992, he returned to Serbia and became an Abbot of St. Prochor's monastery near Vranje. Under his spiritual guidance, many monasteries were revived in Southern Serbia. Fr. Pajsije translated several books by Elder Paisios from Greek and in 1990 his tape "Hymns from Hilandar Panygiris - Old Serbian Chant" was released. Fr. Pajsije reposed in Belgrade on July 20, 2003.
May his memory be eternal!
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