St. Sava's Serbian Orthodox Seminary

St. Sava Serbian Orthodox School of Theology (Serbian: Српска православна богословија светог Саве / Srpska pravoslavna bogoslovija svetog Save) in Libertyville, Illinois is the professional theological school in the Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA and Canada. The school is collocated with the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery.

The school possesses a library of 8,000 titles.

The monastery was founded in 1923 by Montenegrin Serb Bishop (Saint) Mardarije as a school for the Serbian Orthodox Church.

Dionisije Milivojević was appointed bishop of the American-Canadian Diocese in 1939. During World War II, the Libertyville monastery became an American refuge for Orthodox Serbs. In 1964, Serbian Patriarch German defrocked American Bishop Dionisije Milivojević over political and administrative issues. This forced a split between the Serbian and North American branches of the church. The result was two separate North American churches—the Serbian Orthodox Church in the USA and Canada in Libertyville and the Diocese of New Gracanica – Midwestern America in nearby Third Lake. The Illinois Supreme Court deemed that this schism was a violation of the mother church's regulations and forbade recognition of Bishop Dionisije. However, in 1976, the United States Supreme Court ruled that this was in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in Serbian Orthodox Diocese v. Milivojevich.

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