Background
Mitrofan Ban"s birth name was Marko Ban, and he was born on May 15, 1841 in the village of Glavati near Donje Grblje in Montenegro to Georgije and Anastasija Ban.
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Education
He attended Serbian and Italian primary schools in Vranovići and Kotor.
Career
He was also Archimandrite of the Cetinje monastery. He is related to writer Matija Ban of Petrovo Selo. In 1865, he took his monastic vows in the Savina monastery near Herceg Novi.
He was ordained a deacon by Bishop Stevan Knežević on 27 June 1865, and a presbyter on 2 October 1866.
He became the nastojatelj (Serbian: настојатељ or nastojatelj) of Podlastva monastery in 1867, and of Morača monastery in 1869. From 7 September 1870 he was the hegumen (игуман or iguman) of the latter.
Both a nastojatelj and an iguman are the senior monk in a monastery. The difference is so slight they are sometimes considered synonyms.
He was ordained a Metropolitan on 18 April 1885 in Saint St. Petersburg.
Soon after, on 5 September 1884, the relics of Saint Arsenius (the second Serb archbishop) were ceremonially transferred from the Ždrebaonik monastery in Bjelopavlići to the Kosijerevo monastery. At that time, Mitrofan Ban said to Governor Weber: "Njegoš was not just the ruler of Montenegro, but also a poet of Serbdom, and that act will mournfully echo in all Serbian lands".
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Quotations: During the First World War, when Austria-Hungary occupied the Kingdom of Montenegro, the occupying troops razed the chapel at the peak of Mount Lovćen and exhumed the remains of Petar II Petrović-Njegoš. At that time, Mitrofan Ban said to Governor Weber: "Njegoš was not just the ruler of Montenegro, but also a poet of Serbdom, and that act will mournfully echo in all Serbian lands".
Membership
After 1906, he was a member of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Montenegro.
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1920 (aged 78)