Metropolitanate of Dabar-Bosnia

The Metropolitanate of Dabar-Bosnia (Serbian: Митрополија дабробосанска / Mitropolija dabrobosanska) is a metropolis of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina, seated in Sarajevo. Since 2017, Metropolitan of Dabar and Bosnia is Hrizostom Jević.

Metropolitanate of Dabar-Bosnia Митрополија Дабробосанска
Cathedral of the Nativity of the Theotokos, Sarajevo
Location
Territory	Central region of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Headquarters	Sarajevo
Information
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox
Sui iuris church	Serbian Orthodox Church
Established	1219
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Nativity of the Theotokos, Sarajevo
Language	Church Slavonic Serbian
Current leadership
Bishop	Hrizostom Jević
Map
Website
Mitropolija Dabrobosanska

History

The medieval Eparchy of Dabar (Serbian: Дабарска епархија / Dabarska eparhija) was founded in 1219 by the first Serbian archbishop, Saint Sava. The seat of bishops of Dabar was in the Banja Monastery near Priboj. Eparchy of Dabar had jurisdiction over the region of lower Lim and middle Drina on the borders with medieval Bosnia.

In 1557, Serbian Patriarchate of Peć was restored and the Eparchy of Dabar and Bosnia was returned to its jurisdiction, with its bishops of holding the honorary title of metropolitan. In 1766, when the autocephalous Serbian Patriarchate of Peć was abolished, Eparchy of Dabar-Bosnia and all other Serbian eparchies under Ottoman rule came under the jurisdiction of Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Bishop of Dabar-Bosnia kept his honorary title of metropolitan, as was also the custom in the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The seat of metropolitan was in Sarajevo.

Since the 1878 campaign, Bosnia and Herzegovina was ruled by Austria-Hungary, but under the Convention of 1880 all Eastern Orthodox eparchies remained under ecclesiastical jurisdiction of Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. At the end of the First World War in 1918, all Eastern Orthodox bishops in Bosnia and Herzegovina reached a unanimous decision to join with other Serbian ecclesiastical provinces into united Serbian Orthodox Church. The process of unification was completed in 1920 and since then Eparchy of Dabar-Bosnia remains part of the united Serbian Orthodox Church.

From 2015 to 2017, the diocese was administered by Bishop Grigorije (Durić) of Zahumlje and Herzegovina.

Monasteries

• Banja
• Bogorodica Čajnička
• Vozuća Monastery
• Gornja Lijeska Monastery
• Građenik Monastery
• Dobrun Monastery
• Dobrunska Rijeka Monastery
• Donje Vardište Monastery
• Karno Monastery
• Knežina Monastery
• Ozerkovići Monastery
• Pjenovac Monastery
• Sase Monastery
• Sokolica Monastery
• Toplica Monastery

Monasteries

• Banja, seat of medieval Dabar bishopric
• Dobrun, near Višegrad

Bishops

• Hristofor (1220)
• Joanikije (13th c.)
• Gavrilo (13th c.)
• Isaija (1286–1291)
• Jovan I (within period of 1293–1307)
• Metodije (1320 or 1322)
• Nikola or Nikola III (1329)
• Jovan II
• Spiridon
• Jovan III
• Velimir Vladimirović (1463)
• Jovan IV
• Josif (died 15 May 1575)
• Gavrilo Avramović (before 1578)
• Petronije (within period of 1578–1589)
• Aksentije (1589–1592)
• Teodor (1614)
• Makarije (1620)
• Isaija (within period 1622–1656)
• Longin (1656 or within 1656–1668)
• Melentije (1668)
• Hristofor (within 1668–1681)
• Atanasije Ljubojević (1681–1688)
• Visarion (1690–1708)
• Mojsije Petrović (1709–1713)
• Melentije Milenković (1713–1740)
• Gavrilo Mihailović (1741–1752)
• Pajsije Lazarević (1752–1759)
• Vasilije Jovanović Brkić (1760–1763)
• Dionisije (1763?)
• Serafim (1753-after 1790)
• Danilo (c. 1769)
• Kirilo (1776–1779)
• Pajsije (before 1793–1802)
• Kalinik (1802–1816)
  • represented by vicar Venedikt Kraljević (fl. 1805–07)
  • temporarily Evgenije of Zvornik (1808)
  • represented by vicar Josif (1809–16)
• Venijamin (1816–1835)
• Amvrosije (1835–1840)
• Ignjatije (1841–1851)
• Prokopije (1851–1856)
• Dionisije (1856–1860)
• Ignjatije II (1860–1868)
• Dionisije II Ilijević (1868–1871)
• Pajsije (1872–1874)
• Antim (1874–1880)
• Sava Kosanović (1881–1885)
• Georgije Nikolajević (1885–1896)
• Nikolaj Mandić (1896–1907)
• Evgenije Letica (1908–1920)
• Petar Zimonjić (1920–1941)
• Nektarije Krulj (1951–1966)
• Vladislav Mitrović (1967–1992)
• Nikolaj Mrđa (1992–2015)
• Grigorije Durić (2015–2017), administrator
• Hrizostom Jević (2017-present)

Annotations

It is known in English as the Metropolitanate of Dabar-Bosna or Metropolitanate of Dabar-Bosnia. It is scarcely known as the Metropolitanate of Dabar and Bosnia. It was formerly unofficially known as the Metropolitanate of Sarajevo (Сарајевска митрополија).

See also

• Eastern Orthodoxy in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• List of the Eparchies of the Serbian Orthodox Church

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