Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church (Montreal)

[2] On 23 February 1954, Bishop Dionisije (Milivojević) appointed hieromonk Justinian (Ilkić) to the Serbian community of Montreal as their parish priest, the same year he arrived in Canada.

[3] Justinian Ilkić was a seminary graduate and former monk of the Monastery of Visoki Dečani in the Serbian province of Kosovo whose abbot was Dionisije himself before he became Bishop (1939) and took over the American-Canadian Diocese in 1940.

The commissions for the iconostasis were given to a master woodcarver Vladimir Barac and the icon painting to internationally renowned, Belgrade-born artist José Majzner, then residing in Montreal.

Soon the numerous complaints that were filed with the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church against Dionisije during the years before 1963, came to roost and Dionsisje was called into question as to his fitness to serve as a Bishop and his administration of the Diocese.

Ten years later, the church council launched a building fund for the repairs and reconstruction of the Serbian Community Centre.