Metodije Ostojić

Life

Born

1 April 1976

Monastic tonsure

11 July 2004

Ordained deacon

19 August 2005

Ordained priest

27 April 2008

Made archimandrite

12 July 2013

Consecrated bishop

22 July 2018

Sees

1. 22 July 2018 – 29 May 2021

   Bishop of Diokleia

   Vicar of Montenegro and the Littoral · Patriarchate of Serbia

2. 29 May 2021 – present

   Bishop of Budimlja and Nikšić

   Patriarchate of Serbia

Consecration

Consecrated 22 July 2018 by:

• Irinej Gavrilović Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, Patriarch of Serbia, 1930–2020
• Amfilohije Radović Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, 1938–2020
• Porfirije Perić Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, Patriarch of Serbia, b. 1961
• Lukijan Pantelić Bishop of Budim, Administrator of Timișoara, b. 1950
• Dositej Motika Bishop of Great Britain and Scandinavia, b. 1949
• John Mladenović Bishop of Šumadija, b. 1950
• Atanasije Rakita Bishop of Mileševa, b. 1957
• Joanikije Mićović Bishop of Budimlja and Nikšić, b. 1959
• Grigorije Durić Bishop of Frankfurt and All Germany, b. 1967
• Teodosije Šibalić Bishop of Raška and Prizren, b. 1963
• John Ćulibrk Bishop of Slavonia, b. 1965
• Sergije Karanović Bishop of Bihać and Petrovac, b. 1975
• Arsenije Glavčić Bishop of Niš, b. 1978
• Nikodim Kosović Bishop of Dalmatia, cons. 2017
• Cherubim Đermanović Bishop of Osječko Polje and Baranja, b. 1987
• Anthony Pantelić Bishop of Moravica, b. 1970
• Stephen Šarić Bishop of Remesiana, b. 1978
• Isihije Rogić Bishop of Valjevo, b. 1965

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 13 generations back to Joseph Volchanskii; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Metodije Ostojić Bishop of Budimlja and Nikšić consecrated 22 July 2018
2. Anthony Pantelić Bishop of Moravica, b. 1970 consecrated 23 July 2006
3. Irinej Dobrijević Bishop of Eastern America, b. 1955 consecrated 15 June 2006
4. Nicholas Soraich Former Bishop of Sitka and Alaska, b. 1949 consecrated 22 April 2001
5. Herman Swaiko Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, 1931–2022 consecrated 10 February 1973
6. Silvester Haruns Archbishop of Montréal and Canada, 1914–2000 consecrated 27 April 1952
7. Vladimir Tikhonitskii Metropolitan of Białystok, 1873–1959 consecrated 3 June 1907
8. Anthony Vadkovskii Metropolitan of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, 1846–1912 consecrated 3 May 1887
9. Isidore Nikolskii Metropolitan of Novgorod, Saint Petersburg and Finland, 1799–1892 consecrated 11 November 1834
10. Filaret Drozdov Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, 1782–1867 consecrated 5 August 1817
11. Ambrose Podobedov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Saint Petersburg, 1742–1818 consecrated 5 June 1778
12. Gabriel Petrov-Shaposhnikov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Olonets, 1730–1801 consecrated 6 December 1763
13. Dimitrii Sechenov Metropolitan of Novgorod and Velikii Lutsk, 1709–1767 consecrated 14 September 1742
14. Joseph Volchanskii Archbishop of Moscow and Vladimir, d. 1745 consecrated 30 December 1735

Bishops he consecrated 7

• 23 September 2018Dimitrije Rađenović Bishop of Zahumlje and Hercegovina, b. 1976
• 12 September 2021Justin Jeremić Bishop of Western Europe, b. 1982
• 19 September 2021Damaskin Bishop of Mohács, b. 1975
• 3 October 2021Sava Bundalo Bishop of Marča, b. 1984
• 10 October 2021John Stanojević Bishop of Hum, b. 1979
• 27 November 2022Nektarije Samardžić Bishop of Jegar, b. 1983
• 11 December 2022Dositej Radivojević Bishop of Lipljan, b. 1971

Sources

Also in: Wikidata