Elder Tadej Štrbulović

Elder Thaddeus
Отац Тадеј
Archimandrite
Church Serbian Orthodox Church
Personal details
Birth name Tomislav Štrbulović
Born 10 October 1914
Vitovnica, Kingdom of Serbia
Died 13 April 2003 (aged 88)
Bačka Palanka, Serbia-Montenegro
Nationality Serb
Denomination Serbian Orthodox Christian

Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica (10 October 1914 - 13 April 2003), was a Serbian Orthodox elder and published author, credited for proposing the idea that our thoughts determine our lives.[1]

Biography

Elder Thaddeus was born in 1914 in the village of Vitovnica as Tomislav Štrbulović, the son of honourable worker parents.[2] He became a monk in 1935 in the Gornjak monastery. On July 14 that same year, he became a jerođakon. He was given the title of jeromonah on February 3, 1938 in the Rakovica monastery. He became a hegumen in 1949 in Belgrade's Saborna crkva.[1]

Elder Thaddeus was a hegumen at the Vitovnica Monastery from April 14, 1962 until the end of March in 1972.[3]

Published books

“Our starting point is always wrong. Instead of beginning with ourselves, we always want to change others first and ourselves last. If everyone would begin first with themselves, then there would be peace all around!”

—Elder Thaddeus, Our Thoughts Determine our Lives[4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Our Thoughts Determine our Lives (in English (translated by Ana Smiljanić)). St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood. 2009. pp. 26–29. ISBN 978-1-887904-19-3. |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
  2. ↑ Info on Elder Thaddeus and some of his quotes at Orthodox England
  3. ↑ Info in Serbian on the Vitovnica monastery and Elder Thaddeus at Pravoslavlje.nl
  4. ↑ Elder Thaddeus, pp. 48–49.

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