About Slobodan Šiljak
Lived 1881 – 1943 (aged 61–62). Slobodan Šiljak was a military personnel.
Slobodan Šiljak (1881 in Pljevlja – December 5, 1943 in Pljevlja) was a Montenegrin priest in the Serbian Orthodox Church who was sainted by the church in 2005.
Šiljak studied theology in Prizren. He served as a military chaplain in the Balkan Wars. Šiljak was executed by a local Yugoslav Partisan unit during World War II on December 5, 1943 as an "enemy of the people". He was proclaimed a saint by the Serbian Orthodox Church in May 2005 in Bosnia and Herzegovina's Žitomislić Monastery despite protests by groups from Pljevlja that he was a war criminal.
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Serbian Orthodox saint
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Slobodan Šiljak was born in 1881.
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Slobodan Šiljak died on 5 December 1943.
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Slobodan Šiljak was a military personnel.
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