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Đorđe Bogić, protopresbyter of the Serbian Orthodox Church, victim of Genocide of Serbs (born 1911)

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Đorđe Bogić

Serbian Orthodox hieromartyr and saint (1911–1941)

Georgije Bogić was a Serbian Orthodox protopresbyter and the parish priest of the Orthodox church in Našice; who was martyred by the Ustaše during the Second World War, for which he was canonized as Saint George of Slavonia, being recognised as a new martyr and hieromartyr.
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Serbian Orthodox Church

Autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church

The Serbian Orthodox Church is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
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Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia

Genocide by the Ustashe during WWII

The Genocide of Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia was the systematic persecution and extermination of Serbs committed during World War II by the fascist Ustaše regime in the Nazi German puppet state known as the Independent State of Croatia between 1941 and 1945. It was…
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June 17

Day of the year

June 17 is the 168th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 197 days remain until the end of the year.
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