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ST. SAVA HOME v. CHRISTOPHER

No. 6 T.D. 1987.

113 Pa.Commw. 269 (1988)

537 A.2d 69

St. Sava Home, a Pennsylvania Nonprofit Corporation, Appellant v. Rt. Rev. Christopher, Bishop of Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Eastern America and Canada, et al., Appellees.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

February 5, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard R. Roetzel and Louis J. Stack, for appellant.

Thomas J. Karacic, Katz, Karacic & Helmin, for appellees.

Eugene R. Wedoff, with him, Albert E. Jenner, Jr., Robert L. Graham, Jenner & Block, for appellees.

Irving O. Murphy, MacDonald, Illig, Jones & Briton, for appellees.

Argued May 19, 1987, before President Judge CRUMLISH, JR., Judge COLINS, and Senior Judge KALISH, sitting as a panel of three.

OPINION BY JUDGE COLINS, February 5, 1988:

We here address a dispute between a local church congregation and its parent denomination concerning the right to possession of certain church property in Shadeland, Pennsylvania. The local congregation, incorporated as St. Sava Home (appellant), consists of adherents of Dionisije Milivojevich (Dionisije), former Bishop of the Eastern American-Canadian Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church who was removed from that position...

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