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==Life==
The future metropolitan was born Jovan into the family of Spiro Špiro and Marija <!--- (family name?) ---> 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 Lastva. 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.