On the day of Saint Andrew the First-Called, December 13, in the Church of Saint Nicholas in Kotor, after the Divine Liturgy, a commemoration service was held for Protopriest-Stavrophor Lazar Milin, professor and dean of the Faculty of Theology of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade.
Protopriest-Stavrophor Prof. Dr. Lazar Milin was born on December 20, 1914, in the village of Pavlovci in Srem (Serbia), in a rural family, as the eighth child of father Jakov and mother Anka. He completed elementary school in his hometown (1921-1925), and high school in Ruma (1925-193 3). He graduated from the Faculty of Theology in Belgrade (1933-1937) in 1937 with an average grade of 9.34. He then served six months of military service in Banja Luka, in a hospital company, in 1937.

As a graduate theologian from Belgrade University, he was employed as a catechist at the Gymnasium in Šabac, where he worked from 1938 to 1945. He spent a short time as a catechist at the Gymnasium in Valjevo (1942).

He passed the state exam for a professorship as a catechist with excellent results (1941). He was ordained a deacon by Bishop Simeon (Stanković) of Šabac-Valjevo on March 3, 1940, promoted to the rank of protodeacon in 1944, became a presbyter in 1951 (ordained by Bishop Longin of Mostar), an archpriest in 1955 (ordained by Patriarch Vikentij), and then an archpriest stavrophor (during the reign of Patriarch German).

In 1951, he moved from Šabac to Belgrade and was appointed assistant professor for the subject of Apologetics with History of Religion at the Faculty of Theology. For a time, he was acting secretary of the Faculty of Theology (1952-1953). Patriarch Vikentij ordained him to the rank of presbyter and appointed him as a spiritual director in the church of Ružica and the chapel of St. Petka in Belgrade, where he was also an elder for fourteen years. As a spiritual director and minister in the church of Ružica and St. Petka, he spent about fifty years (until 1997), serving, preaching and holding religious education classes for both youth and adults. At the Faculty of Theology in Belgrade in 1947, he submitted his doctoral dissertation under the title The Dogma of the Resurrection of the Dead — a Dogmatic-Apologetic Study. The authorities in Šabac had temporarily deprived him of his civil rights, as well as the right to vote, which was the reason for the delay in writing and defending his doctoral dissertation. He completed his doctoral dissertation and defended his thesis on 2 December 1952 with excellent success (10). In 1953, he was elected assistant professor for the subject of Apologetics with the History of Religion. The explanation of the commission (Professor Radivoj Josić) that recommended him to the Holy Synod of Bishops for approval, among other things, states: "In general, it can be argued that Mr. Milin's doctoral dissertation is a serious contribution to Orthodox theological science in the field of Apologetics." At the Faculty of Theology, he became an associate (1958) and full professor (1973), and for several terms he was the dean of the Faculty. For the sake of his theological and scientific training, he spent three periods abroad: Strasbourg (1958), Bern (1962) and Paris (1967). He was fluent in German, French, Russian and Latin. He was one of the observers at the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church in Rome, at its fourth session, as a representative of the Serbian Orthodox Church. He represented the Serbian Church as a delegate at the World Conference of the Lay Apostolate in Rome
in October 1967. In July 1968, as a delegate of the Serbian Church, he was at the Fourth Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Uppsala, Sweden.
In addition to lecturing at the Faculty of Theology in Belgrade, Professor Lazar Milin gave a large number of lectures in our country and abroad upon invitation, published a large number of professional studies and works, as well as popular articles in the field of apologetics and theology in general. As a lecturer, polemicist and writer, he was highly respected and appreciated, read and listened to with pleasure until the end of his life. He knew church singing very well, loved church services and
their beauty. He retired from the Faculty of Theology in 1978, but remained active and present in church life until his last breath. With his wife Oliver (who is the daughter of a priest), he had four children.
He became a grandfather twelve times, and a great-grandfather once (great-grandson Lazar). One of his sons is a priest and professor at the Faculty of Theology in Belgrade (Protopriest Dr. Dragan Milin), and one daughter is the wife of a priest (Smiljka Krivokapić, wife of Protopriest-Staurophor Momčilo Krivokapić).
He passed away in Belgrade on December 13, 2001, at the age of eighty-seven. After the funeral service (the Serbian Patriarch Pavle officiated with several bishops, priests and deacons), he was buried on December 17 at the New Cemetery in Belgrade, and was dignifiedly accompanied by numerous admirers, students and friends.
The text from the link below was taken on December 13, 2021, on the day when the 20th anniversary of the repose of Archpriest-Stavrophor Lazar Milin was celebrated.
http://bogoslovlje.pbf.rs/images/arhiva/2002/1/2002-1-03.pdf