List of metropolitans of Montenegro

Cetinje Monastery, seat of the Metropolitans of Montenegro
Remains of the historical Cetinje Monastery near the Court Church

This article lists the Metropolitans of Montenegro, primates of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, heads of the current Eastern Orthodox Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral, and their predecessors (bishops and metropolitans of Zeta, and Cetinje), from 1219 to the present day.

List

Bishops of Zeta (1219–1346)

  • Ilarion I (1220–1242)
  • German I (1242–1250)
  • Neofit (1250–1270)
  • Jevstatije (1270–1279)
  • Jovan (1279–1286)
  • German II (1286–1292)
  • Mihailo I (1293–1305)
  • Andrija (1305–1319)
  • Mihailo II (after 1319)

Metropolitans of Zeta (1346–1485)

  • David I (1391–1396)
  • Arsenije I (1396–1417)
  • David II (1417–1435)
  • Jeftimije (1434–1446)
  • Teodosije (after 1446)
  • Josif (1453)
  • Visarion I (1482–1485)

Metropolitans of Cetinje (1485–1697)

  • Pahomije I (1491–1493)
  • Vavila (1493–1495)
  • Roman (1496)
  • German III (1496–1520)
  • Pavle (1520–1530)
  • Vasilije I (1530–1532)
  • Romil I (1532–1540)
  • Nikodim (1540)
  • Ruvim I (1540–1550)
  • Makarije (1550–1558)
  • Dionisije (1558)
  • Romil II (1558–1561)
  • Ruvim II (1551–1569)
  • Pahomije II (1569–1579)
  • Gerasim (1575–1582)
  • Venijamin (1582–1591)
  • Nikanor I and Stevan (1591–1593)
  • Ruvim III (1593–1636)
  • Mardarije (1637–1659)
  • Ruvim IV (1673–1685)
  • Vasilije II (1685)
  • Visarion II (1685–1692)
  • Sava I (1694–1697)

Hereditary Metropolitans of Montenegro

Primate Portrait Reign Notes
Danilo I
Данило I
Vladika danilo -172950031.jpg 1697–1735 Founder of the Petrović-Njegoš dynasty.
Sava II
Сава II
Vladika sava.jpg 1735–1781 Co-ruled with Vasilije III from 1750 until 1766.
Vasilije III
Василије III
Vasilije petrovic.jpg 1750–1766 Co-ruled with Sava II.
Arsenije II
Арсеније II
Unknown person.jpg 1781–1784
Petar I
Петар I
Petar I Petrović-Njegoš Знаменити Срби XIX. века.jpg 1784–1830 Canonized by the Serbian Orthodox Church as St. Petar of Cetinje.
Petar II
Петар II
Njegosh vladika.jpg 1830–1851
Danilo II
Данило II
Danilo II.jpg 1851–1852 Secularization; Danilo II proclaimed Prince of Montenegro on 13 March 1852.

Metropolitans of Montenegro, Brda and the Littoral

Primate Portrait Reign Notes
Nikanor II
Никанор II
Unknown person.jpg 1858–1860 The first Vladika after centuries to only serve religious function.
Banished to the Russian Empire by Prince Nikola; died in 1894.
Born in Drniš as Nikola Ivanović / Никола Ивановић.
Ilarion II
Иларион II
Ilarion Roganović.jpg 1860–1882 Born in Podgorica as Ilija Roganović / Илија Рогановић.
Visarion III
Висарион III
Visarion Ljubisa 1884 Vilimek.png 1882–1884 Born in Sveti Stefan as Vasilije Ljubiša / Василије Љубиша.
Mitrofan
Митрофан
Митрополит Митрофан (Бан).JPG 1884–1920 Born in Glavati as Marko Ban / Марко Бан.
Gavrilo
Гаврило
Патријарх Гаврило (Дожић).jpg 1920–1938 First Metropolitan under the reunified Serbian Orthodox Church.
Served as the 41st Serbian Patriarch from 1938 to 1950.
Born in Vrujci as Gavrilo Dožić / Гaврилo Дoжић.
Joanikije I
Јоаникије
Иоанникий (Липовац).jpg 1940–1945 Executed by the Yugoslav Partisans at the end of World War II for collaboration with the occupying Axis powers. Canonized as a Serbian Orthodox saint in 1999.
Born in Stoliv as Jovan Lipovac / Јован Липовац.
Arsenije III
Арсеније III
Unknown person.jpg 1947–1961 Imprisoned by the Yugoslav Communist authorities from 1954 to 1960.
Born in Banatska Palanka as Svetislav Bradvarević / Светислав Брадваревић.
Danilo III
Данило III
Unknown person.jpg 1961–1990 Retired at his own request; died in 1993.
Born in Drušići as Tomo Dajković / Томо Дајковић.
Amfilohije
Амфилохије
Amfilohije, Metropolitan of Montenegro.jpg 1990–2020 Born in Bare (Kolašin) as Risto Radović / Ристо Радовић.
Joanikije II
Јоаникије
Епископ Иоанникий (Мичович). 7 мая 2014 (14000147298).jpg 2020–present Served as the administrator of the Metropolitanate from October 2020, prior he was officially elected Metropolitan by the Bishops' Council in May 2021.
Born in Velimlje as Jovan Mićović / Јован Мићовић.

See also


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