Ministry of Religion and Diaspora (Serbia)

The Ministry of Religion and Diaspora (Serbian: Министарство вера и дијаспоре / Ministarstvo vera i dijasopre) was the ministry in the Government of Serbia which was in charge of connection with the Serbian diaspora. The ministry was merged into the Ministry of Culture and Information on 27 July 2012.

Ministry of Religion and Diaspora
Министарство вера и дијаспоре
Ministarstvo vera i dijasopre
Ministry overview
Formed11 February 1991 (1991-02-11)
Dissolved27 July 2012 (2012-07-27)
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JurisdictionGovernment of Serbia
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History

The ministry was established on 11 February 1991. It was abolished from 2001 to 2004. The Ministry of Religion which existed from 1991 to 2011, merged into the ministry in 2011.

The Ministry of Religion and Diaspora was later merged into the Ministry of Culture and Information on 27 July 2012. Also, the Directorate for Cooperation with the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region and Office for Cooperation with Churches and Religious Communities were established on 2 August 2012 and took some of the Ministry's jurisdictions.

List of ministers

Political Party:   SPS   SRS   SPO   DS   n-p

Name
(Birth–Death)		 Party Term of Office Prime Minister
(Cabinet)
Minister of Relations with Serbs outside of Serbia
Stanko Cvijan
(born 1951)		 SPS 11 February 1991 10 February 1993 Zelenović (I)
Božović (I)
Bogoljub Bjelica
(1956–2013)		 SPS 10 February 1993 18 March 1994 Šainović (I)
Radovan Pankov
(born 1946)		 SPS 18 March 1994 24 March 1998 Marjanović (I)
Milorad Mirčić
(born 1956)		 SRS 24 March 1998 24 October 2000 Marjanović (II)
Vojislav Vukčević
(1938–2016[1])		 SPO 24 October 2000 25 January 2001 Minić (transitional)
Minister of Diaspora
Vojislav Vukčević
(1938–2016[1])		 SPO 3 March 2004 15 May 2007 Koštunica (I)
Milica Čubrilo
(born 1969)		 DS 15 May 2007 7 July 2008 Koštunica (II)
Srđan Srećković
(born 1974)		 SPO 7 July 2008 14 March 2011 Cvetković (I)
Minister of Religion and Diaspora
Srđan Srećković
(born 1974)		 SPO 14 March 2011 27 July 2012 Cvetković (I)
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Notes
  1. Expelled from the SPO on 10 February 2012.[2]

References
  1. "Preminuo dr Vojislav Vukčević prvi ministar za dijasporu" (in Serbian). RTS. 25 October 2016. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  2. "Srećković isključen iz SPO-a" (in Serbian). RTS. 10 February 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
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