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His Grace Following the repose of the Serbian Patriarch [[German of Serbia|German]], Bp. Nikanor was elected Bishop Nikanor of Upper Karlovac. He was ordained into forced to flee his diocese with his flock in 1995 during the Episcopal rank ethnic cleansing of Slavonia, Dalmatia, and Lika committed by Croatian and NATO forces. After a brief stay in 1984the Žica [[diocese]], receiving the title of (Vicar) he was elected Bishop of Hvostno (Vicar to the Serbian Patriarch)Australia and New Zealand and enthroned in January 2000.

Following the repose of the Serbian Patriarch German, he was elected Bishop of Upper Karlovac. He was forced to flee his diocese with his flock in 1995 during the ethnic cleansing of Slavonia, Dalmatia and Lika committed by Croatian and NATO forces. After a brief stay in the Zica diocese, he was elected Bishop of Australia and New Zealand and enthroned in January 2000. In 2004, His Grace was elected Bishop of Banat, following the election of Hrizostom, who was then Bishop of Banat Hrizostom , to the vacant Zica Žica diocese.

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after=[[Milutin (Knezevic) of Australia and New Zealand|Milutin(Knezević)]] }}

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