Nicholas Mrđa

Life

Born

30 August 1928

Monastic tonsure

1953

Ordained deacon

30 September 1953

Ordained priest

10 May 1961

Consecrated bishop

9 September 1973

Made metropolitan

May 1992

Died

27 October 2015

Sees

1. 9 September 1973 – 1978

   Bishop of Australia and New Zealand

   Patriarchate of Serbia

2. 1978 – May 1992

   Bishop of Dalmatia

   Patriarchate of Serbia

3. 1990 – 1991

   Locum tenens of Bihać and Petrovac

   Patriarchate of Serbia

4. May 1992 – 27 October 2015

   Metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia

   Patriarchate of Serbia

Consecration

Consecrated 9 September 1973 by:

• German Đorić Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, Patriarch of Serbia, 1899–1991
• Longin Tomić Bishop of Tuzla and Zvornik, 1893–1977
• Paul Stojčević Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, Patriarch of Serbia, 1914–2009

Line of succession

Following, at each step, the consecrator whose own documented line reaches furthest back in time. This line runs 8 generations back to Paisios; earlier links are not yet in the data.

1. Nicholas Mrđa Metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia consecrated 9 September 1973
2. German Đorić Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, Patriarch of Serbia, 1899–1991 consecrated 15 July 1951
3. Vincent Prodanov Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, Patriarch of Serbia, 1890–1958 consecrated 1936
4. Barnabas Rosić Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, Patriarch of Serbia, 1880–1937 consecrated 10 April 1910
5. Philaretos Vapheides Metropolitan of Heraclea, 1850–1933 consecrated 22 May 1888
6. Anthimos Peltekes Former Metropolitan of Devra and Velissa, 1840–1909 consecrated 21 May 1888
7. Kallinikos Metropolitan of Moglen, 1820–1911 consecrated 2 April 1872
8. Paisios Kourentis/Panagiotides Metropolitan of Imbros, 1830–1904 consecrated 22 December 1863
9. Paisios Metropolitan of Ephesus, 1778–1877 consecrated ca. 1819

Bishops he consecrated 15

• 15 June 1974Irinej Gavrilović Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci, Patriarch of Serbia, 1930–2020
• 17 September 1978Jefrem Milutinović Bishop of Banja Luka, b. 1944
• May 1985Amfilohije Radović Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, 1938–2020
• 11 August 1985Nikanor Bogunović Bishop of Banat, b. 1952
• 20 October 1985Longin Krčo/Jovanović Bishop of New Gračanica and the Midwest, b. 1955
• 12 July 1987Mitrofan Kodić Bishop of Canada, b. 1951
• 1999Fotije Sladojević Bishop of Zvornik and Tuzla, b. 1961
• 23 May 1999Filaret Mićević Bishop of Mileševa, b. 1947
• 3 October 1999Grigorije Durić Bishop of Frankfurt and All Germany, b. 1967
• 20 July 2003Milutin Knežević Bishop of Valjevo, 1949–2020
• June 2004John Purić Former Bishop of Niš, b. 1965
• 18 July 2004Maksim Vasiljević Bishop of Western America, b. 1968
• 25 July 2004Gerasim Popović Bishop of Gornji Karlovac, b. 1972
• 15 June 2006Irinej Dobrijević Bishop of Eastern America, b. 1955
• 23 July 2006Anthony Pantelić Bishop of Moravica, b. 1970

Sources

Also in: Wikidata