Vasilije Popović

Vasilije Popović (May 1860, in Majevac, near Derventa, Ottoman Empire – 11 November 1938, in Okučani) was a Metropolitan of the Serbian Orthodox Church who officiated over church life in the Serbian and Romanian parts of Banat for two decades during uncertain and volitile political times.[1][2] He succeeded Metropolitan Evgenije Letica.[3]

Metropolitan Vasilije Popović

Biography

Metropolitan Vasilije was born in May 1860 in Majevac. He went to Belgrade in the neighbourhood of Bogoslovija where he enrolled in the Faculty of Theology at the Grandes écoles, now the University of Belgrade.

He was ordained deacon on 23 August, and presbyter on 25 August 1884. Until his election as a bishop, he was a parish priest in Gradačac and a member of the Consistory court in Sarajevo.

The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople elected him Metropolitan of Banja Luka on 10 July 1908, the year precipitating the Bosnian Crisis when Bosnia and Herzegovina was annexed by the Austrian Empire from Ottoman Turkey.[4] He was consecrated on 21 August of the same year at the Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit in Banja Luka.[5]

He died in Okučani on 11 November 1938. He was first buried in the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Rebrovac, and after the 1929 erection of the new Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, and after World War II, his remains were transferred to this church.

References
  1. Okey, Robin; Okey, Senior Lecturer in History Robin (September 27, 2007). Taming Balkan Nationalism: The Habsburg 'Civilizing Mission' in Bosnia 1878-1914. OUP Oxford. ISBN 9780199213917 – via Google Books.
  2. Mileusnić, Slobodan (April 19, 1997). "Duhovni genocid: pregled porušenih, oštećenih i obesvećenih crkava, manastira i drugih crkvenih objekata u ratu 1991-1995 (1997)". Muzej Srpske pravoslavne crkve – via Google Books.
  3. "Serbian Orthodox Church: Its Past and Present". Serbian Patriarchy. April 19, 1965 – via Google Books.
  4. Grunert, Heiner (January 18, 2016). Glauben im Hinterland: Die Serbisch-Orthodoxen in der habsburgischen Herzegowina 1878–1918. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISBN 9783647310299 – via Google Books.
  5. "Hierarchs of the Patriarchate of Serbia". www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org.
Eastern Orthodox Church titles
Preceded by
Evgenije Letica		 Bishop of Banja Luka and Bihać
1908–1925		 Eparchy split into Eparchy of Banja Luka and Eparchy of Bihać
New diocese
Eparchy split into Eparchy of Banja Luka and Eparchy of Bihać
 Bishop of Banja Luka
1925–1936		 Succeeded by
St. Platon
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