Until 1974 the Serbs of Oxford belonged to the parish of London. In that year Bishop Lavrentije established a separate parish and appointed Fr Aleksandar Munjin, born in 1937 in Irig, who came from Belgrade to Britain and was ordained in London in 1965. The parish was widely scattered: Oxford, Reading, High Wycombe and Bicester.
At Bicester, services were held in the chapel of St George in a military camp, where Serbs from the German camps had also been housed. When the camp was dissolved in 1978, its iconostasis was moved to the new church in Donington. At High Wycombe the community worshipped in an Anglican church until 1975, and was then given a church at West Wycombe, where an iconostasis from the old Birmingham church was installed. Three Circles of Serbian Sisters supported the priest in his missionary work Oxford, High Wickham and Reading, and the parish keeps its patronal feasts on Ascension Day in Oxford and at the summer feast of St Nicholas in High Wycombe, along with the celebration of St Sava.
In mid-October 1998, Archpriest Nikola Kotur, who had earlier served in Ealing, was appointed parish priest. With the church board he began a campaign for a new church, a spiritual centre for the parish and for the Serbs who come to the University of Oxford.
The first and current president of the church community is Mr. Rajko Despotović.
