Mitrofan Kodić (

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, th ...

: Митрофан Кодић; born 4 August 1951) is a

Serbian Orthodox The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. The majority of the population in ...

bishop who has served as the head of the

Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Canada The Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Canada ( sr, Српска православна епархија канадска, ) is a diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Its headquarters (the Holy Transfiguration Monastery) and bishop's residence are ...

since 2016.Ostkirchliches Institut Regensburg
p. 248 He was formerly the Bishop of the Eastern American Eparchy.Milena Milanović. In English, his name is sometimes spelled as Mitrophan.

Biography

Kodić completed his Seminary studies at

Krka monastery The Krka Monastery ( sr-Cyrl, Манастир Крка, sr, Manastir Krka, italics=yes; hr, Samostan Krka) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Archangel Michael, located near the river Krka, east of Kistanje, in central Dalmatia ...

in 1971.
Eastern Diocese He was ordained as a

hierodeacon A hierodeacon (Greek: Ἱεροδιάκονος, ''Ierodiákonos''; Slavonic: ''Ierodiakón''), sometimes translated "deacon-monk", in Eastern Orthodox Christianity is a monk who has been ordained a deacon (or deacon who has been tonsured monk). T ...

by Bishop Stefan Boca in 1970, and as

hieromonk A hieromonk ( el, Ἱερομόναχος, Ieromonachos; ka, მღვდელმონაზონი, tr; Slavonic: ''Ieromonakh'', ro, Ieromonah), also called a priestmonk, is a monk who is also a priest in the Eastern Orthodox Church an ...

on 6 January 1974. He studied in Bucharest from 1975 to 1977, then returned to Krka monastery. He was named assistant Rector of the Seminary in 1980 and Rector in 1987. In 1987 he was elected as a Vicar Bishop of

Toplica District The Toplica District ( sr, Топлички округ, Toplički okrug, ) is an administrative district in southern Serbia, named after the river Toplica. With a population of 91,754, it has the smallest population of all Serbian districts. It ...

, and was appointed assistant to the Administrator of the Diocese of Midwestern America, Sava Vuković. On 11 July 1987, in the

Studenica monastery The Studenica Monastery ( sr, / ), ) is a 12th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery situated southwest of Kraljevo and east of Ivanjica, in central Serbia. It is one of the largest and richest Serb Orthodox monasteries. Stefan Nemanja, the foun ...

Serbian Patriarch German German ( sr-Cyrl, Герман, English equivalent: ''Herman''; 19 August 1899 – 27 August 1991) was the 43rd Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1958 to 1990. He was successful in revitalizing the Serbian Orthodox Church to a cert ...

with seven hierarchs and nine priests performed his bishop ordination. The next day during

Divine Liturgy Divine Liturgy ( grc-gre, Θεία Λειτουργία, Theia Leitourgia) or Holy Liturgy is the Eucharistic service of the Byzantine Rite, developed from the Antiochene Rite of Christian liturgy which is that of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of C ...

Patriarch German along with four bishops, sixteen priests and eleven deacons performed his consecration.
Saborna He was appointed as Administrator of the Diocese of Midwestern America in 1988, and became Bishop of Eastern America in 1991. In 1997 he earned his Doctor of Philosophy, PhD, with his doctoral dissertation at the Theological Faculty of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade on the theme "The Mystery of Christ According to the Epistles to the Ephesians, Philippians and Colossians of the Holy Apostle Paul". Along with Jesse Jackson, he played a key role in securing the release of three American

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held captive during the NATO bombing of

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

in 1999. He is also a Professor of the New Testament at the St. Sava School of Theology in Libertyville, Illinois.

Works

He translated from the Romanian

Dumitru Stăniloae Dumitru Stăniloae (; – 4 October 1993) was a Romanian Orthodox Christian priest, theologian and professor. He worked for over 45 years on a comprehensive Romanian translation of the Greek Philokalia, a collection of writings on prayer by th ...

's ''Community and Spirituality in the Orthodox Liturgy'', three volumes of ''Orthodox Dogmatics'', ''The Immortal Image of God'', ''Orthodox Moral Theology'', and ''The Gospel Image of Christ'' by Dumitru Stăniloae, and ''The Romanian Patericon I and II'' and the ''Dictionary of Orthodox Theology'' by Hieromonk Ioanichie Bălan. He has written two books: ''The Teaching of St. Apostle Paul on the Church'', published in 1991 in Chicago (now translated into English) and ''Introduction to the Holy Scriptures, the New Testament''.

References

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