Anthimus, Metropolitan Of Belgrade

Anthimus ( el, Άνθιμος, sr, Антим / ''Antim'') was Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan of Belgrade from 1827 until 1831.

Biography

Anthimus was born on the island of Andros around 1780. He was ordained a bishop in Constantinople. He was the bishop of Vratsa from 1804 to 1813, and then from 1813 to 1827 the bishop of Lovech, both within the Trnovo metropolitanate in Bulgaria, which was under the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. There he was the bishop of Lovech, and he was called Anthimus II, because he inherited the seat of the bishop of the same name.

In the period from 1827 to 1831, Anthimus was the Metropolitan of Belgrade. He succeeded Metropolitan Cyril, who died the same year. Anthimus came to Serbia in August 1827. He was also the last Phanariot Greek to head the Metropolitanate of Belgrade, as the Sultan's '' Hatt-i humayun'' gave Serbs the right to "freedom of religion so that they could elect their own Serbian metropolitan instead of the Greek Phanariot."Eparhija Vranjska - Biblioteka
/ref> He anointed Prince Miloš Obrenović as the new Serbian ruler in December 1830 in the Orthodox Cathedral in Belgrade.

He was the head of the Belgrade metropolitanate until the election of Melentije Pavlović in 1831, who became the first Serb to head the renewed Metropolitanate of Belgrade. Then, Anthimus voluntarily withdrew from his diocese. He left Belgrade on 21 October 1831.

He first settled in Constantinople, and then in Athens, where he died.

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Metropolitans of Belgrade
19th-century Greek people
19th-century Eastern Orthodox bishops
People from Andros
People from the Principality of Serbia
Bishops of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
19th century in Belgrade