Porfirije Perić

Porfirije Perić (born 22 July 1961) is a Serbian Orthodox bishop who is the current Metropolitan of Zagreb and Ljubljana of the Serbian Orthodox Church, since 2014. Before that, he was titular bishop of Jegar, since 1999.

Porfirije
Metropolitan of Zagreb and Ljubljana
Metropolitan Porfirije
Native name
Порфирије
ChurchSerbian Orthodox Church
DioceseMetropolitanate of Zagreb and Ljubljana
Installed2014
PredecessorJovan
Personal details
Birth namePrvoslav Perić
Born (1961-07-22) 22 July 1961
Bečej, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia
NationalitySerbian
DenominationSerbian Orthodox
ResidenceZagreb
Alma materFaculty of Theology of the University of Belgrade
Faculty of Theology of the University of Athens
Ordination history of
Porfirije Perić

Biography

Bishop Porfirije was born as Prvoslav Perić on 22 July 1961, in the town of Bečej (Serbia). He finished his primary and secondary education in Čurug and Novi Sad before enrolling to Belgrade University's Faculty of Theology. He was ordained a monk in 1985. In 1999, he was elected titular bishop of Jegar, and appointed vicar to the Eparchy of Bačka. He earned a doctorate in 2004 in Athens, with thesis Possibility of knowability of God in St. Paul’s understanding according to the interpretation of Saint John Chrysostom.[1]

He was president of the Businessman Charity Foundation and president of the Council of Regulatory Authority of Electronic Media in Serbia from 2008 to 2014.

In 2014, he was elected Metropolitan of Zagreb and Ljubljana and enthroned in Zagreb on 13 July by Serbian Patriarch Irinej.[2]

gollark: Scalpers only exist because demand outstrips supply. Due to mining and shortages.
gollark: What? That's ridiculous.
gollark: I'm kind of conflicted on the Nvidia thing, because on the one hand I really don't like hardware being artificially limited and on the other I also don't like mining and want cheap GPUs.
gollark: Can't wait for rapid ~~superconducting~~ flux quantum CPUs operating at several tens of GHz under liquid nitrogen cooling.
gollark: Arguably low headroom is good, as it means that regular people get as much out of the CPU as possible out of the box.

References
  1. "Биографија Митрополита Порфирија – Митрополија загребачко-љубљанска". mitropolija-zagrebacka.org (in Serbian). Retrieved 2017-10-31.
  2. SOC (2014): Enthronement of His Grace Bishop Dr. Porfirije of Jegar to the throne of Metropolitans of Zagreb-Ljubljana

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