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Our father among the [[saint]]s '''Metropolitan Joanikije(Lipovac)''' was the Bishop of the Diocese of Montenegro and the Littoral in Yugoslavia as it became a battleground during World War II. He attempted to maintain the [[diocese]] as the area transitioned between German and communist rule. With the ascendency of communist control he attempted to leave the area with many of his [[priest]]s. The attempt was unsuccessful and he and his party of priests were brutally killed. In 1999, his name was added to the list of Serbian [[saint]]s.
==Life==
The future metropolitan was born Jovan Lipovac into the family of Špiro and Marija Lipovac on [[February 16]],1880 in Stoliva on the Bay of Boka Kotorska. His mother's maiden name was Damjanovic. Jovan completed primary school education in Prcanj, followed by grammar school in Kotor. Jovan began his theological studies at the Orthodox Theological Institute in Zadar, and continued at the Philosophical Faculty in Belgrade. He also passed an exam for the professorship of theological subjects.
Jovan was [[ordination|ordained]] deacon on [[November 8]], 1912 and as a priest on [[November 10]] by Bishop Vladimir of Boka Kotorska and Dubrovnik. During the period 1912-1918 he was a [[chaplain]] in Kotor before becoming a [[parish]] priest in Laštva. From 1919 to 1925 he was an assistant professor in the grammar school in Cetinje, before assignment to the lower-grade Female School, Female Teachers School, and the Cetinje Seminary. From 1925 to 1940, he was a professor in the First Male Grammar School in Belgrade.
