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His Holiness [[Patriarch]] '''Porfirije''' (Serbian: Патријарх Порфирије); born [[July 22]], 1961, is the 46th Patriarch of the [[Church of Serbia|Serbian Orthodox Church]], the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Serbs. His full title is His Holiness the [[Archbishop]] of Peć, [[Metropolitan]] of Belgrade and Karlovci, Serbian Patriarch Porfirije. Between 2014 and 2021, he served as the [[Metropolitan]] of Zagreb and Ljubljana. He speaks Greek, English, German, and Russian.
==Biography==
Porfirije was born '''Prvoslav Perić''' (Првослав Перић) in Bečej, Serbia, to Radojka and Radivoj Perić. He finished primary school in Čurug, and the Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj Grammar school in Novi Sad. He was [[ordain]]ed a [[monk]] according to the rite of small schema at [[Decani Monastery|Visoki Dečani monastery]] on [[April 21]], 1985, receiving the monastic name of Porfirije (from Greek: ''Πορφύριος, Porphýrios''; English: ''Porphyry'').
He earned a bachelor's degree in theology from the University of Belgrade in 1986, in which year Bishop [[Pavel (Stojcevic) of Serbia|Pavle]] of Raška and Prizren (future Serbian Patriarch) ordained him a hierodeacon at the Holy Trinity Monastery in Mušutište, Kosovo and Metochia. He attended postgraduate studies in Athens from 1986 to 1990.
Also in 1990, upon the blessing of Bishop Irinej of Backa, he joined the monastery of Holy Archangels in Kovilj, near Novi Sad, where he was ordained as hieromonk and became its abbot.
On [[May 14]], 1999, he was elected as Bishop of Jegar, Vicar of the Bishop of Backa.
He defended his Ph.D. thesis, ''Possibility of knowability of God in St. Paul's understanding according to the interpretation of Saint John Chrysostom'' at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Athens in 2004. He became a lecturer at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Department of Pastoral Psychology, succeeding famous psychiatrist, academician Dr. Vladeta Jerotic.
He was enthroned as Metropolitan of Zagreb-Ljubljana on [[July 13]], 2014, in the Cathedral Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord in Zagreb.
==Sources==
*[http://www.spc.rs/eng/biography_newlyelected_metropolitan_porfirije_zagrebljubljana Biography of newly-elected Metropolitan Porfirije of Zagreb-Ljubljana]
*[http://www.spc.rs/eng/biography_archbishop_pec_metropolitan_belgradekarlovci_and_serbian_patriarch_porfirije_peric Biography of Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch Porfirije (Peric)]
==External links==
*[http://www.spc.rs/eng Serbian Orthodox Church]
*[http://mitropolija-zagrebacka.org/ Metropolis of Zagreb-Ljubljana]
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{{succession
| before = ?
| title = Bishop of Jegar<br>(Vicar of the Bishop of Backa)
| years= 1999 - 2014
|after=Jeronim (Močević)}}
{{succession
| before = Jovan (Pavlović)
| title = Metropolitan of Zagreb-Ljubljana
| years= 2014 - 2021
|after=?}}
{{succession
| before = [[Irinej (Gavrilović) of Serbia|Irenej]]
| title = [[List of Patriarchs of Serbia|Patriarch of Serbia]]
| years= 2021 - present
|after=''incumbent''}}
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[[Category:Bishops]]
[[Category:20th-21st-century bishops]]
[[Category:Bishops of Jegar]]
[[Category:Bishops of Zagreb-Ljubljana]]
[[Category:Bishops of Belgrade]]
[[Category:Patriarchs of Serbia]]
==Biography==
Porfirije was born '''Prvoslav Perić''' (Првослав Перић) in Bečej, Serbia, to Radojka and Radivoj Perić. He finished primary school in Čurug, and the Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj Grammar school in Novi Sad. He was [[ordain]]ed a [[monk]] according to the rite of small schema at [[Decani Monastery|Visoki Dečani monastery]] on [[April 21]], 1985, receiving the monastic name of Porfirije (from Greek: ''Πορφύριος, Porphýrios''; English: ''Porphyry'').
He earned a bachelor's degree in theology from the University of Belgrade in 1986, in which year Bishop [[Pavel (Stojcevic) of Serbia|Pavle]] of Raška and Prizren (future Serbian Patriarch) ordained him a hierodeacon at the Holy Trinity Monastery in Mušutište, Kosovo and Metochia. He attended postgraduate studies in Athens from 1986 to 1990.
Also in 1990, upon the blessing of Bishop Irinej of Backa, he joined the monastery of Holy Archangels in Kovilj, near Novi Sad, where he was ordained as hieromonk and became its abbot.
On [[May 14]], 1999, he was elected as Bishop of Jegar, Vicar of the Bishop of Backa.
He defended his Ph.D. thesis, ''Possibility of knowability of God in St. Paul's understanding according to the interpretation of Saint John Chrysostom'' at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Athens in 2004. He became a lecturer at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Department of Pastoral Psychology, succeeding famous psychiatrist, academician Dr. Vladeta Jerotic.
He was enthroned as Metropolitan of Zagreb-Ljubljana on [[July 13]], 2014, in the Cathedral Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord in Zagreb.
==Sources==
*[http://www.spc.rs/eng/biography_newlyelected_metropolitan_porfirije_zagrebljubljana Biography of newly-elected Metropolitan Porfirije of Zagreb-Ljubljana]
*[http://www.spc.rs/eng/biography_archbishop_pec_metropolitan_belgradekarlovci_and_serbian_patriarch_porfirije_peric Biography of Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrade-Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch Porfirije (Peric)]
==External links==
*[http://www.spc.rs/eng Serbian Orthodox Church]
*[http://mitropolija-zagrebacka.org/ Metropolis of Zagreb-Ljubljana]
{{start box}}
{{succession
| before = ?
| title = Bishop of Jegar<br>(Vicar of the Bishop of Backa)
| years= 1999 - 2014
|after=Jeronim (Močević)}}
{{succession
| before = Jovan (Pavlović)
| title = Metropolitan of Zagreb-Ljubljana
| years= 2014 - 2021
|after=?}}
{{succession
| before = [[Irinej (Gavrilović) of Serbia|Irenej]]
| title = [[List of Patriarchs of Serbia|Patriarch of Serbia]]
| years= 2021 - present
|after=''incumbent''}}
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[[Category:Bishops]]
[[Category:20th-21st-century bishops]]
[[Category:Bishops of Jegar]]
[[Category:Bishops of Zagreb-Ljubljana]]
[[Category:Bishops of Belgrade]]
[[Category:Patriarchs of Serbia]]