The Holy New Hieromartyr Timotej Popović, Archpriest
Life
New Hieromartyr Timotej Popović was a Serbian archpriest numbered among the New Martyrs of the Drina region of the Serbian Orthodox Church, commemorated on July 14. His veneration is attested only within regional Serbian tradition, in which he is remembered together with the New Martyr Slobodan of Donja Kamenica.
Very little documentary detail survives about him in the standard hagiographic and reference literature. He does not appear in the English-language 'List of saints of the Serbian Orthodox Church', nor in the major online Orthodox reference works, and no dedicated life or account of his martyrdom could be located. He is best understood as a genuinely obscure local martyr whose memory is preserved in the liturgical tradition of the Drina valley in present-day Republika Srpska.
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Veneration and Regional Context
Timotej Popović is commemorated within the regional martyrdom tradition of the Drina valley, an area of the diocese of Zvornik-Tuzla in present-day Republika Srpska. By tradition of the region he is remembered on July 14 together with the New Martyr Slobodan of Donja Kamenica and, in the account preserved by the companion tradition, the fellow archpriest Milan Petković.
The liturgical centre of this regional commemoration is associated with the Church of Saint Deacon Habakkuk in Drinjača, near Zvornik, where the veneration of Slobodan of Donja Kamenica was first celebrated after the Bishops' Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church numbered Slobodan among the saints in 2022. The broader context of martyrdom in the Kamenica and Zvornik area belongs to the violence of the Bosnian War in the early 1990s.
State of the Record
No individual hagiographic entry for Timotej Popović was found in the major online Orthodox references. He is absent from the English Wikipedia list of Serbian saints, from OrthodoxWiki, and from other standard sources consulted, and no formal, separately documented individual glorification could be confirmed. The most specific attestation of his rank as archpriest and of his shared regional commemoration comes from the tradition recorded in connection with the New Martyr Slobodan of Donja Kamenica.
As with much of the obscure New-Martyr material, the details here rest on regional tradition rather than a critical hagiography, and warrant further verification against Serbian-language and diocesan sources.
