Mitrofan Ban
Mitrofan Ban (Serbian Cyrillic: Митрофан Бан) was Bishop of Cetinje, Metropolitan of Montenegro, and exarch of the Patriarchate of Peć, of the Serbian Orthodox Church.[1] He was also Archimandrite of the Cetinje monastery.
Life
Mitrofan Ban's birth name was Marko Ban, and he was born on May 15, 1841 in the village of Glavati near Donje Grblje in Montenegro to Georgije and Anastasija Ban. He is related to writer Matija Ban of Petrovo Selo. He attended Serbian and Italian primary schools in Vranovići and Kotor. In 1865, he took his monastic vows in the Savina monastery near Herceg Novi. He was ordained a deacon by Bishop Stevan Knežević on 27 June 1865, and a presbyter on 2 October 1866. He became the nastojatelj (Serbian: настојатељ or nastojatelj) of Podlastva monastery in 1867, and of Morača monastery in 1869. From 7 September 1870 he was the hegumen (игуман or iguman) of the latter. Both a nastojatelj and an iguman are the senior monk in a monastery; the difference is so slight they are sometimes considered synonyms.
He participated in the war against the Ottoman Empire from 1876 to 1878, for which Prince Nikola decorated him with the Medal of Obilić. He was ordained a Metropolitan on 18 April 1885 in Saint Petersburg. The ceremony was conducted in Saint Isaac's Cathedral by Metropolitan Isidor of St. Petersburg and other members of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, in the presence of Tsar Alexander III of the Russian Empire. Soon after, on 5 September 1884, the relics of Saint Arsenius (the second Serb archbishop) were ceremonially transferred from the Ždrebaonik monastery in Bjelopavlići to the Kosijerevo monastery.
After 1906, he was a member of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Montenegro. He stayed in the country during the First World War occupation of the Kingdom by Austria-Hungary, and died on 30 September 1920, not long after the formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and the reunification of the Serbian Orthodox Church, including the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral.
Quotes
During the First World War, when Austria-Hungary occupied the Kingdom of Montenegro, the occupying troops razed the chapel at the peak of Mount Lovćen and exhumed the remains of Petar II Petrović-Njegoš. At that time, Mitrofan Ban said to Governor Weber: "Njegoš was not just the ruler of Montenegro, but also a poet of Serbdom, and that act will mournfully echo in all Serbian lands".[2]
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- Metropolitanate of Skopje
- Eparchy of Prespa and Pelagonija
- Bregalnica
- Debar and Kičevo
- Polog and Kumanovo
- Veles and Povardarie
- Strumica
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| 1346–1463 |
- Joanikije II (St.)
- Sava IV
- Jefrem (St.)
- Spiridon (St.)
- Danilo III
- Sava V
- Danilo IV
- Kirilo (St.)
- St. Nikon (St.)
- Teofan
- Nikodim II
- Arsenije II
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| 1557–1766 | |
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| since 1920 | |
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- Leontije Lambrović
- Agatanel
- Antim
- Melentije Pavlović
- Petar Jovanović
- Mihailo Jovanović
- Teodosije Mraović
- Inokentije Pavlović
- Dimitrije Pavlović
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| | Serbia |
- Church of Saint Sava
- St. Michael's Cathedral
- St. George, Banovo Brdo
- Ružica
- St. Mark's Church
- St. Basil of Ostrog
- St. Achillius, Arilje
- Peter's Church, Ras
- Cave Church, Lukovo
- Štava Church
- Odžaklija
- Kađenica
- Lazarica Church
- Church of St. George, Lukovo
- Church of Holy Ascension, Krupanj
- Saint George's Cathedral (Novi Sad)
- the Assumption, Zrenjanin
- Our Lady of Ljeviš*
- Church of the Virgin Hodegetria*
- Church of St. Elijah, Podujevo*
- Church of St. Nicholas, Prizren*
- Mala Gospojina Church*
- Christ the Saviour Cathedral, Pristina*
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| Bosnia and
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| | Croatia |
- Church of the Holy Venerable Mother Parascheva
- Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, Trpinja
- Church of St. Nicholas, Vukovar
- Church of Pentecost, Vinkovci
- Church of St. George, Kneževo
- Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, Negoslavci
- Church of Pentecost, Markušica
- Church of St. George, Bobota
- Church of St. Stephen, Borovo
- Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, Srijemske Laze
- Church of St. Peter and Paul, Bolman
- Church of St. Stefan Štiljanović, Karanac
- Church of St. Nicholas, Mirkovci
- Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, Gaboš
- Church of St. Nicholas, Jagodnjak
- Church of St. Demetrius, Dalj
- Serbian Orthodox Cathedral, Zagreb
- Church of St. George, Grubišno Polje
- Church of St. Nicholas, Karlovac
- Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, Drežnica
- Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, Štikada
- Church of St. George, Varaždin
- Church of the Holy Annunciation, Dubrovnik
- Orthodox Church in Knin
- Church of St. Peter and Paul, Tepljuh
- St. Spyridon Church, Peroj
- Church of St. Nicholas, Rijeka
- Church of St. Nicholas, Vrlika
- Orthodox church of Holy Salvation, Cetina
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| | United States | |
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- St. Archangel Michael Serbian Orthodox Church (Toronto), Canada
- Sts. Cyril and Methodius Church, Slovenia
- Serbian Church in Arad, Romania
- St. Sava Church, Paris, France
- Church of the Holy Prince Lazar, United Kingdom
- Serbian Orthodox Church, Halifax, United Kingdom
- St. Nicholas, West Wycombe, United Kingdom
- Saint Spyridon Church, Trieste, Italy
- Annunciation Church, Szentendre, Hungary
- Transfiguration Church, Szentendre, Hungary
- Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, Stockholm, Sweden
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