George (Nikolaevich)

Born on April 20, 1807 in the village of Yazak near Novi Sad in a priestly family, whose founders moved to Srem from the city of Lubin ( Herzegovina ) in the middle of the 17th century.

After a German school in Sremska Mitrovica he graduated from the gymnasium and seminary in Sremski Karlovtsy.

In 1829 he studied philosophy at the University of Pest .

In 1830, Metropolitan Stefan (Stratimirovich), at the request of the local Orthodox community, sent Metropolitan George as a teacher to a Serbian school in Dubrovnik .

Bishop Joseph of Dalmatia (Rayachich) ordained him to the rank of deacon on May 6, 1833, and to the priesthood on May 11.

Since June 11, 1842 - Corresponding Member of the Society of Serbian Literature .

Secretly copied part of the Cyrillic documents stored in Dubrovnik before being sent to Vienna .

On April 28, 1846, Bishop Dalmatian Hierofei (Mutibarich) was elevated to the rank of archpriest .

In 1858 he moved to Zadar and there he was appointed professor at the Zadar Theological Seminary.

On April 29, 1860 he was appointed Consistorial Protopresbyter , while remaining a professor in the theological department.

The very next year, with several priests in Zadar, he founded a fund for office widows and orphans. The fund transferred this fund is also after leaving Zadra.

On October 17, 1882, at the request of Metropolitan Dabro-Bosan Savva (Kosanovich) , he was elevated to the rank of Archimandrite and transferred to the Sarajevo Consistory and appointed temporary rector and teacher of the Church Slavonic language of the Sarajevo Theological Seminary. The date of tonsure is unknown.

After the resignation, Metropolitan Savva, in the farewell District Epistle of September 16, 1885, appointed Archimandrite George the Administrator of the Dabro-Bosan Metropolitanate . October 21, he took office. February 2, 1886 was consecrated bishop and was elevated to the Sarajevo department.

Many churches in Bosnia and Herzegovina did not have church books, which is why many churches did not serve a liturgy. Metropolitan George solved this problem - in Sarajevo, Russian church books were reprinted at public expense.

Unlike his predecessor, Metropolitan Georgy tried not to aggravate relations with the Austro-Hungarian authorities with demands to soften their policy towards Orthodox Serbs . He was mainly engaged in raising the level of spiritual education. At this time, the Orthodox youth of the diocese, as a rule, studied in more accessible Catholic schools, where students were persuaded to convert to Catholicism or union. To counter this, Metropolitan Georgy opened schools at monasteries at his own expense, and established several funds to finance Serbian schools.

From 1842 to 1861 he was the editor of the Srpsko-Dalmatinsky Magazine magazine and published in it his numerous articles and translations from German, Italian and Russian. He was the author of the magazine "Enlightenment Enlightenment", which appeared in Karlovac , "Serbian People's Newspaper" and other publications. He wrote about the history and current situation of the Serbian people, called for the unity of the Serbs and the preservation of the Serbian nationality and the Orthodox faith. From 1882 to 1885 he edited the annual magazine «Shematizam Orthodox Orthodox Metropolitanate and Archdiocese of Dabro-Bosanske’, in 1887 established the Д Dabro-Bosansky source ’.

Since 1885, a corresponding member of the Matica Srpska Scientific and Educational Society. Since November 15, 1892 - an honorary member of the Serbian Royal Academy .

He died on February 20, 1896 in Sarajevo. He was buried in his zaduzhbin - in the church of St. Sava of Serbia in the village of Blazhui near Sarajevo .

• GEORGE // Orthodox Encyclopedia . - M .: Church Scientific Center "Orthodox Encyclopedia" , 2006. - T. XI. - S. 35-36. - 752 s. - 39,000 copies. - ISBN 5-89572-017-X .