'Metropolitan Mihailo' (
Serbian Cyrillic: Мираш Дедеић, born 'Miraš Dedeić') is the current head of the uncanonical
Montenegrin Orthodox Church. He has the title of Archbishop of
Cetinje and the
Montenegrin Metropolinate. He is in full communion with the other uncanonical churches like the
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kievan Patriarchate,
Orthodox Church in Italy and
Bulgarian Alternative Synod.
Metropolitan Mihailo was born in Ramovo Ždrijelo near
Zavidovići,
Kingdom of Yugoslavia (modern
Bosnia) on
8 November 1938. He was a priest of the Ecumenical
Orthodox Church of Constantinople (in
Rome,
Italy) until he was
excommunicated in
1997.
[1] He was proclaimed the Metropolitan of the
Montenegrin Orthodox Church at the assembly of his followers in
Cetinje, on
6 January 1997.
Besides his native
Serbo-Croatian, Dedeić is fluent in
Italian,
Russian and
Greek language. He resides at
Cetinje.
References
1. Anathema on Miras Dedeic