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Serbia declares mourning as Orthodox Church Patriarch Pavle dies |
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Monday, 16 November 2009 |
 The
Serbian government declared a three-day national mourning period starting
Monday after the country's Orthodox Church leader, Patriarch Pavle, died at 95
on Sunday.
The patriarch died of cardiac arrest after having been hospitalized for two
years in the Belgrade Military
Hospital.
Patriarch
Pavle was born September 11, 1914 in Kucanci village, Donji Miholjac in a
farming family. He finished high school and faculty in Belgrade.
He became patriarch in 1990 and he was the 44th Orthodox Church Patriarch.
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