Jovan Kantul

Patriarch Jovan Kantul
Patriarch of the Serbs
Fresco depicting Jovan Kantul
Church	Serbian Orthodox Church
See	Patriarchate of Peć
Installed	1592
Term ended	1614
Predecessor	Filip
Successor	Pajsije Janjevac
Personal details
Birth name	Jovan Kantul
Born	Balkans, Ottoman Empire
Died	1614 Istanbul
Nationality	Rum Millet (Ottoman)
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox Christian
Occupation	Spiritual leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church

Jovan Kantul (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Кантул, fl. 1592 – d. 1614), sometimes numbered Jovan II was the Patriarch of Peć, the spiritual leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church, from 1592 until his death in 1614. He planned a major revolt in the Ottoman Balkans, with Grdan, the vojvoda of Nikšić, asking the pope for aid (see Serb Uprising of 1596–97). Due to his activiries for planning a Serbian revolt, he was arrested in 1612 and was put into trial in Istanbul. He was found guilty for treason and was executed in 1614.

Title

• "Archbishop of Peć and Patriarch of all Serbs and Bulgarians and Western Regions" (Јована м. б. архијепископа пећког и свим Србљем и Бугаром и западним странам патријарха), 20 July 1611.^[1]

References

1. Ilarion Ruvarac (1888). O pećkim patrijarcima: od Makarija do Arsenija III (1557-1690). Štamparija I. Vodicke. У Крци, манастиру у Далмацији сахранило се писмо „Јована м. б. архијепископа пећког и свим Србљем и Бугаром и западним странам патријарха“ писано г. 7122. месецајулија 20. дан у Пећи 1611. всеосвештеном митрополиту ...

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