Career
He wrote in Serbian, Italian and Latin. He was born in a prominent Bokelj Serb Catholic family from Perast (Bay of Kotor). Zmajević was appointed Archbishop of Bar on 18 April 1701 and Apostolic Administrator of Budva on 24 December 1701 and again on 12 August 1713.Zmajević at Bar church fair in 1702 had the title of Diocleciensis, totius regni Serviae primas, visitator Albanie.
He was consecrated as bishop by Marino Drago, bishop of Kotor.
Zmajević became the archbishop of Zadar on 22 May 1713. He resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Budva in 1714.