List of Metropolitans of Montenegro

This is a list of Metropolitans of Montenegro, leaders of the Serbian Orthodox Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral and its predecessors.

Background

Eparchy of Zeta

• Ilarion Šišojević (1220–1242)
• German (1242–?)
• Neofit (1250–1270)
• Jevstatije (1270–1278)
• Mihailo I (?–?)
• Andrija (?–?)
• Jovan (1293–1305)
• Mihailo II (1305–1319)

Metropolitanate of Zeta

• Jevtimije (1405)
• Arsenije (1405–1417)
• David (1424)
• Teodosije (before 1446)
• Josif (1453)
• Visarion I (1482–1485)

Eparchy of Cetinje

• Pahomije I (1491)
• Vavila (1493–1520, who was, according to Petar I, installed by Đurađ V Crnojević after he had left Montenegro)
• German II (1520–1530)
• Pavle (1530-1532)
• Vasilije I (attended Ohrid gathering- 1532–1540)
• Nikodim (1540)
• Romil (1540–1559)
• Makarije (1560–1561)
• Ruvim I Njeguš (1561–1569)
• Pahomije II Komanin (1569–1579)
• Gerasim (1575–1582)
• Venijamin (1582–1591)
• Nikanor (1591–1593)
• Stevan (1591–1593) (Jointly with Nikanor)
• Rufim II Njeguš (1593–1636)
• Mardarije Kornečanin (1637–1659)
• Rufim Boljević (1673–1685)
• Vasilije Veljekrajski (1685)
• Visarion Borilović-Bajica (1685–1692)
• Sava(tije) I Kaluđeričić from the Očinići (1694–1696)

Hereditary Metropolitans (Prince-Bishops) from the House of Petrović-Njegoš

• Danilo I Šćepćev Petrović-Njegoš (1696–1735, founder of the House of Petrović-Njegoš)
• Sava II Petrović-Njegoš (1735–1782)
• Vasilije III Petrović-Njegoš (1750–1766; co-ruled with Sava)
• Arsenije Plamenac (1781–1784)
• Petar I Petrović-Njegoš (St. Petar of Cetinje) (1784–1830)
• Petar II Petrović-Njegoš (1830–1851)
• Danilo II Petrović-Njegoš (1851–1852)

List

Archbishopric of Cetinje / Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral

• Nikanor Ivanović (1852–1860; the first Vladika after centuries to only serve religious function)
• Ilarion II Roganović (1860–1882)
• Visarion III Ljubiša (1882–1884)
• Mitrofan Ban (1885–1920)
• Gavrilo Dožić (1920–1937)
• Joanikije Lipovac (1940–1945)
• Arsenije Bradvarević (1947–1961)
• Danilo Dajković (1961–1991)
• Amfilohije Radović (1991–present)

See also

• List of heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church
• Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral

External links

• Official site of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral