On 30 January 2023, His Holiness Serbian Patriarch kyr Porfirije visited the Monastery of Nova Gračanica and the Faculty of Theology of Saint Sava in Libertyville, accompanied by Their Graces Bishops kyr Longin of New Gračanica-Midwestern America and kyr Mitrofan of Canada.

On that occasion, Patriarch Porfirije spoke with professors and students on the ways to improve the work of the only Serbian theological school in the United States of America.