services in German. On 29 October 2014, Durić received his doctorate in theology from the Orthodox Theological Faculty in Belgrade. In January 2017, he was appointed a member of the Senate of Republika Srpska for a seven-year term. He wrote the book Across the Threshold, for which he received the Kočić Pen Award on December 2017, as well as the Kočić Book Award. Views Durić is an ecumenist. He is a strong critic of Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić, provoking hostility from the Serbian Orthodox Church and the media close to the government. In July 2020, he criticized the Serbian government for providing funds for the Temple of Saint Sava instead of funding hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Serbian Orthodox Church responded by accusing him of anti-clericalism and anti-Serbdom. In the midst of the anti-government protests in Serbia after the proposed reintroduction of the COVID-19 curfew, the deputy mayor of Belgrade, Goran Vesić, called him an inspirator of the protest, and he filed criminal charges against Grigorije for "incitement to murder". Orders and decorations Order of Njegoš, 2nd class Order of the Republika Srpska on sash Publications Books written by Bishop Grigorije: Theology "Dolazi čas i već je nastao" (The Moment Is Coming and It's Already Here), 2004 "Biti sa drugim: Relaciona ontologija Jovana Zizjulasa" (Being with the Other: Relational Ontology of John Zizioulas), 2018 Fiction "Priča o starom kralju" (Story of an Old King), 2009 (novel) "Vera, radost života" (Faith, the Joy of Life), 2010 (novel) "Lazar", 2010 (novel) "Preko praga" (Across the Threshold), 2017 (novel) "Gledajmo se u oči" (Let's Keep the Eye Contact), 2019 (book of interviews) References Living people 1967 births People from Vareš Bishops of Zahumlje-Herzegovina University of Belgrade Faculty of Orthodox Theology alumni 20th-century Eastern Orthodox bishops 21st-century Eastern Orthodox bishops Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbian Orthodox clergy