Bishop Nestor (in the world Nikola Jovanovic , Serb. Nikola Јovanoviћ ; February 1, 1833 , the village of Sumam - March 19, 1884 ) - Bishop of the Belgrade Metropolis, Bishop of Niš .
| Bishop Nestor | ||
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| April 3, 1883 - March 19, 1884 | ||
| Predecessor | Victor (Cholakovich) | |
| Successor | Dimitri (Pavlovich) | |
| Birth name | Nikola Jovanovic | |
| Original name at birth | Nikola Јovanovi | |
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Biography
Born on February 1, 1833 in the village of Shum, near Kragujevets, in a priestly family.
After graduating from the Belgrade Seminary, he was ordained priest on August 15, 1852.
First, he helped his father in his home parish, and later was appointed assistant priest in Kragujevac . Widowed, he went to Russia, where in 7 years he graduated from the Kiev Theological Academy .
He returned to his homeland in 1863, after which he served in the Spiritual Court of the Belgrade Metropolis, from 1865 he became a mentor of the Belgrade gymnasium.
Produced to the rank of archpriest in 1868, becoming at the same time a seminary mentor, and then its rector.
He took the veil on December 11, 1872, and on March 11, 1873, was elevated to the rank of archimandrite .
Edited church magazines "Shepherd" and "Zion". According to the Russian consul Alexei Belyaev, “was a great theologian (dogma specialist), lecturer and preacher. He wrote in “Zion”, the first Serbian spiritual journal, which he himself founded. ”
April 3, 1883 ordained bishop of Niš .
Died March 19, 1884 during a visit to the Negotin diocese, the administrator of which was also.
Literature
- Translated by Nestor, Vladika Nishka // Khrishkansky Vesnik. 1884. with. 311-313
- Sava. Srpski Gérarsi od devtog up to twenty-century. Beograd - Podgorica - Kragujevac, 1996. P. 351
- Radovan Pilipovich. Serbs in the Theological educational institutions of Russia in the second half of the XIX century - the opinion of the Tsarist diplomat. // Russian Collection. Studies in the history of Russia 2013, p. 115