Melentije Pavlović

Melentije
Archbishop of Belgrade and Metropolitan of Serbia
Metropolitan Melentije, by Georgije Bakalović (1839)
Native name
Мелентије
ChurchEcumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
DioceseMetropolitanate of Belgrade
In office1831–1833
PredecessorPosition established
SuccessorPetar Jovanović
Personal details
Born1776
Gornja Vrbava, Sanjak of Smederevo, Ottoman Empire
(modern-day Serbia)
Died11 June 1833(1833-06-11) (aged 56–57)
Vraćevšnica, Principality of Serbia
(modern-day Serbia)
NationalitySerbian
DenominationEastern Orthodoxy

Melentije Pavlović (Serbian: Мелентије; 1776–1833) was a Serbian clergyman that notably participated in the Second Serbian Uprising and became the first Serb Metropolitan of Belgrade, head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Principality of Serbia from 1831 until his death in 1833.

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