Monastery of Venerable Prohor of Pčinja was awarded the Sretenje Order of the first degree for special merits in preserving and nurturing Orthodoxy and traditions of the Serbian people and on the occasion of 950 years at the ceremony in the Palace of Serbia, in Belgrade, on the occasion of the Statehood Day of the Republic of Serbia and the feast of Meeting of the Lord, February 15, 2022.
In the presence of the Serbian Patriarch Porfirije, on behalf of the monastery, the Bishop Pahomije of Vranje received the order from the President of the Republic of Serbia, Mr. Aleksandar Vučić The abbot of the Monastery of Venerable Prohor of Pčinja Archimandrite Metodije (Marković) also accompanied His Grace.