10 Facts About Mitrofan Ban

Mitrofan Ban was Bishop of Cetinje, Metropolitan of Montenegro, and exarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

Mitrofan Ban presided over the Holy Bishopric Synod that unified the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1920.

Mitrofan Ban's birth name was Marko Ban, and he was born on May 15,1841, in the village of Glavati in Grbalj region in the Austrian Empire, to Georgije and Anastasija Ban.

Mitrofan Ban is related to writer Matija Ban of Petrovo Selo.

Mitrofan Ban attended Serbian and Italian primary schools in Vranovici and Kotor.

Mitrofan Ban was ordained a deacon by Bishop Stevan Knezevic on 27 June 1865, and a presbyter on 2 October 1866.

Mitrofan Ban became the nastojatelj of Podlastva monastery in 1867, and of Moraca monastery in 1869.

Mitrofan Ban participated in the war against the Ottoman Empire from 1876 to 1878, for which Prince Nikola decorated him with the Medal of Obilic.

Mitrofan Ban was ordained a Metropolitan on 18 April 1885 in Saint Petersburg.

Mitrofan Ban stayed in the country during the First World War occupation of the Kingdom by Austria-Hungary, and died on 30 September 1920, not long after the formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and the reunification of the Serbian Orthodox Church, including the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral.