About Pavle, Serbian Patriarch (died 2009)
Pavle (Serbian: Павле, English: Paul; born Gojko Stojčević; 11 September 1914 – 15 November 2009) was the 44th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, serving from 1990 to 2009. == Early life == Pavle was born as Gojko Stojčević on 11 September 1914 in the village of Kućanci near Magadenovac, then part of Austria-Hungary (present-day Croatia). He lost both of his parents in childhood, and was raised by an aunt Senka and grandmother Draginja. His father, Stevan Okrajnov, died of tuberculosis when he was three years old; shortly before that, his younger brother Dušan was born. His mother, Ana Stojčević, then remarried a widower, gave birth to two daughters — Ljuba and Vida, and then died herself while giving birth to the third girl. After finishing elementary school, he graduated from a gymnasium in Belgrade, then studied at the seminary in Sarajevo. After completing seminary, he entered the University of Belgrade where he studied theology and medicine in parallel. He quit medicine, but graduated with a Theology degree in 1942. During the World War II he took refuge at the Holy Trinity Monastery in Ovčar and later moved to Belgrade. During 1944, he was employed as a teacher and educator at the refugee children's home in Bosnia in Banja Koviljača.
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