Joanikije Lipovac

Joanikije Lipovac

Metropolitan Joanikije Lipovac (born February 16, 1890 in Stoliv in Boka Kotorska - died in 1945) was a metropolitan of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral of the Serbian Orthodox Church and was sainted by the church in 1999 due to his murder by Yugoslav Partisans in 1945.

Joanikije was born to Špirpo Lipovca and Marija Damjanović on February 16, 1890 in Stoliv in the Bay of Kotor in what was then the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He finished elementary school in Prčanj and gymnasium in Kotor. He finished Orthodox education in Zadar and Belgrade. After being ordained her served in Kotor and Lastva. From 1925 to 1940 he taught as a professor in Belgrade. In 1939 he was named episcope of the Eparchy of Budim. The following year he was named metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral.

Soon after taking the position of metropolitan, the April War brought the Second World War to Yugoslavia and resulted in the establishment of an independent Montenegro. Joanikije collaborated with the occuping Italian and German forces and supported the activities of the Serbian Chetniks. Joanikije was at the head of the column of Montenegrin Chetniks which attempted to flee Yugoslavia at war's end through Germany. [http://www.danas.co.yu/20050608/frontpage1.html] Joanikije was captured by Yugoslav Partisans on May 12 near Celje and taken to Zagreb. On orders of Milovan Đilas, he was moved to Belgrade. He was subsequently killed near Aranđelovac on June 18, 1945. [ [http://www.glas-javnosti.co.yu/clanak/glas-javnosti-1106-2008/prsten-ubijenog-sveca Ring of a murdered priest] ]

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