Background
Metropolitan Jovan Pavlović was born in the village of Medinci in 1936 and died in the Sisters of Charity Hospital in Zagreb on 3 April 2014.
Metropolitan Jovan Pavlović was born in the village of Medinci in 1936 and died in the Sisters of Charity Hospital in Zagreb on 3 April 2014.
He finished elementary school in Medinci and secondary in Podravska Slatina.
Jovan Pavlović was born in Medinci in 1936. After he completed his seminary education at Rakovica Monastery he graduated at University of Belgrade Faculty of Theology in 1963. Postgraduate studies he attended at several universities in West Germany.
At the Evangelical Academy in Schleswig and Faculty of Theology of University of Kiel studies Evangelical theology.
He studied Catholic theology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. During this period, he spent some time in Chevetogne Abbey in Belgium and Saint Matthias" Abbey and Niederaltaich Abbey in Germany.
Jovan Pavlović worked as a professor in the Serbian Orthodox Seminary of Prizren and in Krka monastery. In 1967 in Krka monastery he became a monk and in 1969 a hierodeacon.
In 1977 he became bishop of Lepavina Monastery and Metropolitan of Zagreb in 1982.