This chapter discusses the series of events and activities from mid-1916 within England until the end of the First World War that served to bolster the understanding and sympathy for the people of Serbia and its Orthodox Church, as well as to provide practical support for its exiled seminarians. It focuses on two large personalities who were able to promote the cause, one English and one Serbian: Henry Joy Fynes-Clinton (1875–1959), Secretary of the Anglican and Eastern Association, and Fr Nikolaj Velimirović (1881–1956), Professor at St Sava’s Seminary in Belgrade. It shows how Velimirović became a leading spokesperson for the Serbians and exercised a powerful influence of the Church of England that helped promote the Serbian cause and also served to make Orthodox Christianity better known in the Church of England. This close co-operation, which was revealed in particular in the educational work that took place in Oxford and Cuddesdon, later served to pave the way for further ecumenical dialogues after the war.
