Budimir of Dobrun, surnamed Sokolović, was a Serbian Orthodox priest who served the parish of Dobrun and was killed during and after the Second World War. He is venerated among the Serbian Orthodox New Martyrs of the twentieth century and is commemorated on June 28. The Church numbers him among the New Martyrs of Dabar-Bosnia and Mileševa, a body of clergy and faithful who suffered during the wartime occupation of Yugoslavia and the Communist period that followed.
According to the accounts preserved by his family, Budimir belonged to a remarkably long line of priests; he is described as one of the latest of dozens of generations of the Sokolović family to enter the priesthood. He served as parish priest in Dobrun, and during the war he and his family were taken to a concentration camp. Tradition relates that in 1944 he served as a spiritual counselor to a Serbian band that resisted the German occupation, and that the same year he rode into the village of Milanovac to embrace his young son for what proved to be the last time.
Budimir lived to see the expulsion of the German forces but did not survive the anti-Communist struggle that followed. He was imprisoned and executed by the Communist authorities, by tradition in May 1945, and his body was cast into an unmarked grave in a field. The hiddenness of his burial became part of his memory: later searchers are said to have recovered only fragments — part of a skull, a wooden cross, myrrh, and a prayer book — from a field. The Serbian Orthodox Church glorified him as a hieromartyr among the new martyrs of the Second World War.
