Maksim Milovanovic

Maksim Milovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Максим Миловановић: Novi Sad, Austrian Empire, 1815 - Vrbas, Austria-Hungary, 15 June 1892) was one of the most disitnguished Serbian Orthodox priests and teachers in the Metropolis of Karlovac in the early and mid-19th century,. He was one of the most learned educators who graduated from Metropolitan Stefan's (Stratimirović) seminary -- Clerical Grande école of Saint Arsenije Sremac.

After the Hungarian Revolution he signed a petition along with several like-minded intellectuals asking Austrian authorities to allow the Serbs to open more schools in the empire.

Biography

Maksim Milovanović was born to merchant parents in Novi Sad where he took his elementary and secondary education before graduating from college in Segedin. From there he went to the Bogoslovija (seminary) at the Clerical Grande école of Saint Arsenije in Karlovac. Upon graduation in 1835 he was appointed teacher in Čurug and in 1837 he was ordained a deacon by the then bishop of the Eparchy of Bačka who would soon become Metropolitan Stefan (Stanković). In 1838 he was elevated in Novi Sad to the rank of presbyter and was appointed chaplain in Sombor, and also worked for a short time in Brestovac. Then in 1839 he was appointed parish priest in Čurug where he remained until 1854, the year he became a parish priest in Stari Vrbas, where he remained for the rest of his life.

When Milovanović was a young man he served in the Military Frontier in Banat before graduating from teacher's college and becoming a priest and well-known educator.

His likeness was painted by Sava Petrovic.

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