Vikentije Popović-Hadžilavić ( sr-cyrl, Хаџи-Лавић или Хаџилавић, Janjevo,

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, c. 1650 –

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, 23 October 1725) was metropolitan of the Serbian Orthodox

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, and the highest-ranking prelate of the

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in the Habsburg Monarchy, from 1713 to 1725. Metropolitan Vikentije, the son of ''daskal'' (teacher) Lav Popović, was born in Janjevo in the Lipljan municipality of southeastern

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and took monastic vows in the Patriarchal Monastery of Peć. Like all of the early metropolitans of Karlovci, Vikentije also spent his early career in the Patriarchate of Peć where he received his education."Пештанско-будимски скоротеча", Будим 1842. године In January 1708 he was elected as Eastern Orthodox Bishop of Buda (modern

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, capital of

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). Upon election to the metropolitan throne in 1713, he initially resided in the Monastery of Krušedol, that was plundered during the Austro-Turkish War (1716-1718), forcing him to transfer metropolitan residence to

, thus creating the base for change of title from ''Metropolitanate of Krušedol'' to ''Metropolitanate of Karlovci''.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Popović-Hadžilavić, Vikentije 1650 births 1725 deaths People from Lipjan Metropolitans of Karlovci

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