On Friday, 25 November 2022, the Forvm hosted a panel dedicated to the 50^th anniversary of the passing of Prof. Dr Sergey Troitsky (1878-1972). Speaking at the panel were our dean, Prof. Dr Zoran Mirković, Prof. Dr Vladislav Puzović of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Orthodox Theology, and Prof. Dr Dalibor Đukić, our professor of Ecclesiastical  law. We also had the very great pleasure to be greeted by Prof. Emeritus Sima Avramović – who delivered his introduction speech live, and not via video call from Rome; he pointed out the importance of professors who were Russian émigrés for the development of the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law in the interwar period, and of the science and culture in Yugoslavia on the whole. The speakers then told us about the life and work of professor Sergey Viktorovich Troitsky: of his education, emigration to Yugoslavia, the positions he held in Russia and Yugoslavia, and the main fields of his scientific research. They also talked of his work on the relevant canon law issues of his time, particularly the attitude of the Ecumenical Patriarchate towards the Russian Orthodox Church (and the troubling tendencies that emerged at the time), of his work on publishing medieval Serbian sources (focusing on the paper that provided thorough guidelines for the future publication of St. Sava’s Nomocanon), and, of course, of the important, critically-written textbook of Ecclesiastical law, that was only published posthumously. Prof. Đukić closed the panel with a quote from Blagota Gardašević: “Leaving this Earth, Prof. Troitsky can rest at ease knowing that he paid his dues to both his homelands – Russia and Serbia, and to both Churches – Russian and Serbian, and most of all to the science of ecclesiastical  law.”

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