Serbian Venezuelans
Serbian Venezuelan is a Venezuelan citizen of Serbian descent or Serbia-born person who resides in Venezuela. The Serbian population settled in the country consisted mainly of political emigrants, that arrived at Venezuela after the Second World War, due to disagreements with the then Yugoslav communist regime. The estimated population of Serbs-Venezuelans range between 1,000 - 2,000. In 1955, they founded the Serbian Orthodox Christian Community in Caracas. Later they built the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1966, where the consecration was attended by King Peter II of Yugoslavia. The Serbian Social Club of Aragua state was founded in  1965 by a group of immigrants arrived in the country from Yugoslavia in order to preserve and promote the customs, religion, culture and folklore of Serbia, with all the community based in the country without distinction of race or creed, sharing in the same space with the activities of the St. John the Baptist Church which belongs to the newly founded Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Buenos Aires and South America.