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Mitrofan Kodić (
Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet (, ), also known as the Serbian script, (, ), is a standardized variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language. It originated in medieval Serbia and was significantly reformed in the 19th cen ...
: Митрофан Кодић; born 4 August 1951) is a
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bishop who has served as the head of the
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He was formerly the Bishop of the Eastern American Eparchy.Milena Milanović. In English, his name is sometimes spelled as Mitrophan.


Biography

He was ordained as a
hierodeacon A hierodeacon (Greek: Ἱεροδιάκονος, ''Ierodiákonos''; Slavonic: ''Ierodiakón''), sometimes translated "deacon-monk", in Eastern Orthodox Christianity and all other Churches that follow Byzantine Rite is a monk who has been ordained a ...
by Bishop Stefan Boca in 1970 after which he completed his Seminary studies at
Krka monastery The Krka Monastery ( sr-Cyrl, Манастир Крка, ; ) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Archangel Michael, located near the river Krka, east of Kistanje, in central Dalmatia, Croatia. It is the best known monastery of the S ...
in 1971.
Eastern Diocese
He was ordained a
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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-Cyrl-Latn, Топлички округ, Toplički okrug, ) is an administrative district in southern Serbia, named after the river Toplica. As of the 2022 census, the district has a population of 77,341 inhabitants, ma ...
, and was appointed assistant to the Administrator of the Diocese of Midwestern America, Sava Vuković. On 11 July 1987, in the Studenica monastery,
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 certa ...
with seven hierarchs and nine priests performed his bishop ordination. The next day during
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Patriarch German along with four bishops, sixteen priests and eleven deacons performed his consecration.
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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 Jesse Louis Jackson (Birth name#Maiden and married names, né Burns; born October 8, 1941) is an American Civil rights movements, civil rights activist, Politics of the United States, politician, and ordained Baptist minister. Beginning as a ...
, he played a key role in securing the release of three American
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held captive during the NATO bombing of
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in 1999. He is also a Professor of the New Testament at the St. Sava School of Theology in Libertyville, Illinois. At the regular session of the Holy Council of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church on May 18, 2024, Bishop Mitrofan was ordained a
metropolitan bishop In Christianity, Christian Christian denomination, churches with episcopal polity, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan (alternative obsolete form: metropolite), is held by the diocesan bishop or archbishop of a Metropolis (reli ...
. His new title is Archbishop of Toronto and Metropolitan of Canada.


Works

He translated from the Romanian
Dumitru Stăniloae Dumitru Stăniloae (; – 4 October 1993), also Anglicized as Demetrius Staniloae, was a Romanian Orthodox Christian priest, theologian and professor. He worked for over 45 years on a comprehensive Romanian translation of the Greek Philokali ...
'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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