Eparchy of Budimlja and Nikšić

Eparchy of Budimlja and Nikšić
Đurđevi stupovi, Berane
Location
Territory	Parts of Montenegro
Headquarters	Berane, Montenegro
Information
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox
Sui iuris church	Serbian Orthodox Church
Language	Church Slavonic Serbian
Current leadership
Bishop	Joanikije Mićović
Map

The Eparchy of Budimlja and Nikšić or Budimlja–Nikšić (Serbian: Епархија Будимљанско-Никшићка/Eparhija Budimljansko-Nikšićka) is an eparchy (ecclesiastical territory) of the Serbian Orthodox Church, covering parts of western, central and eastern Montenegro. The ecclessiastical seat of the eparchy is the Monastery of the tracts of St. George (Đurđevi stupovi) in Berane.^[1]

The Eparchy of Budimlja-Nikšić was split up among the Eparchy of Budimlja and the Eparchy of Onogošt-East Herzegovina (the successor of the Metropolitanate of Lim).

Territory

Today's Eparchy of Budimlja-Nikšić contains 10 municipalities of Montenegro: Andrijevica, Berane, Bijelo Polje, Žabljak, Mojkovac, Nikšić, Plav, Plužine, Rožaje, and Šavnik.

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Metropolitans

• Basil
• Macarius I
• Macarius II
• Gennadius
• Sabbas
• Gerasim
• Gregory
• Efthymius
• Paisius (1648 - ?)

Episcopes

• Theophilus (Teofilo Budimljanin)
• Ioannicius (Joankije Lipovac) (8 December 1939 - 23 February 1941)
• Macarius (Makarije Đorđević) (1947 - 1956)
• Ionnaicius (Joanikije Mićović) (2002–Present)

Monasteries

• Đurđevi Stupovi
• Nikoljac Monastery
• Piva Monastery
• Kosijerevo Monastery
• Župa Monastery
• Dobrilovina Monastery
• Bijela Monastery
• Podmalinsko Monastery
• Kaludra Monastery
• Zagrađe Monastery
• Šudikova Monastery
• Boljavac Monastery
• Podvrh Monastery
• Somina Monastery
• Uroševica Monastery
• Majstorovina Monastery
• Kičava Monastery
• Crnča Monastery
• Bliškova Monastery
• Brezojevica Monastery

See also

• List of the Eparchies of the Serbian Orthodox Church

References

Bibliography

• Јанковић, Марија (1985). Епископије и митрополије Српске цркве у средњем веку (Bishoprics and Metropolitanates of Serbian Church in Middle Ages). Београд: Историјски институт САНУ. 
• Вуковић, Сава (1996). Српски јерарси од деветог до двадесетог века (Serbian Hierarchs from the 9th to the 20th Century). Евро, Унирекс, Каленић. 
• Popović, Svetlana (2002). "The Serbian Episcopal sees in the thirteenth century (Српска епископска седишта у XIII веку)". Старинар (51: 2001): 171–184. 
• Ćirković, Sima (2004). The Serbs. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. 

External links

• Official website