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bunjevicFr. Dusan has traveled a storied journey since his birth in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, April 25, 1928, the only son of Pavle Bunjevic and Zora Tomic Bunjevic. Because of his father’s profession as a Civil Engineer, most of his youth and growing up took place in Nis and Belgrade, though some years were also spent in Dubrovnik and Mostar. He graduated from the 6th Belgrade Gymnasium in 1951; four years behind his normal class year due to imprisonment by a regime that punished people on flimsy grounds just as a matter of course. Following three years study from 1951 to 1954 of Theology and Philosophy at the University of Belgrade, Father defected to Greece as a political refugee. There he received a two-year scholarship to the Saint Serge Theological Seminary in Paris, France. By 1956, with a Certificate of Divinity in hand, he landed in Chicago. Two years later, on February 2nd he married Ljiljana Selakovic. His first church assignment was in 1960 to organize and become Superintendent of the Sunday and Serbian Schools for St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in Gary, Indiana. 

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