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Nikanor Grujić


Nikanor Grujić (Serbian Cyrillic: Никанор Грујић; December 12, 1810 – April 26, 1887) was the Serbian Orthodox bishop of Pakrac, the locum tenens Serbian Patriarch, the Austro–Hungarian emperor's Privy Councilor, knight of the Grand Cross of the Franz Joseph order, member of Houses of Magnates at Hungarian and Croatian–Slavonian parliaments, member of Serbian Learned Society, writer, poet, orator and translator.

Born Milutin Grujić on December 12, 1810 or December 1 (Julian calendar) in Lippó (Lipova), Baranya county (then Austrian empire) to priest Prokopije Grujić and Agripina, née Kosić. He had an older brother named Dragutin Grujić, who later became archpriest of Mohács and Szigetvar, parish priest of Kácsfalu (Jagodnjak) and assessor of Buda bishopric .

Milutin was educated at Lippó, his birthplace, Mohács and Pečuj, where he excelled as an orator and poet of his generation. He attended and successfully finished his teological studies at the prestigious Serbian Orthodox Seminary in Sremski Karlovci. After that, he took monastic vows and changed his name to Nikanor.


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