Slobodan Šiljak (1881 in Pljevlja – December 5, 1943 in Pljevlja) was a Montenegrin priest in the Serbian Orthodox Church who was sainted by the church in 2005.
Šiljak studied theology in Prizren. He served as a military chaplain in the Balkan Wars. Šiljak was executed by a local Yugoslav Partisan unit during World War II on December 5, 1943 as an "enemy of the people". He was proclaimed a saint by the Serbian Orthodox Church in May 2005 in Bosnia and Herzegovina's Žitomislić Monastery despite protests by groups from Pljevlja that he was a war criminal. Milosava Strunjaš has come forward claiming that Šiljak was responsible for the death of her father Rajko Cerović.
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- ^ Pop Dušan Prijović was also a war criminal Archived 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine, Danas
- Canonization of rehabilitation, B92
- 1881 births
- 1943 deaths
- 20th-century Serbian people
- Serbian saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church
- Serbian Orthodox clergy
- Montenegrin military personnel of the Balkan Wars
- Montenegrin people of World War II
- Serbian military personnel of the Balkan Wars
- Serbian people of World War II
- Serbs of Montenegro
- People from Pljevlja