Porfirije Perić
Porfirije Perić is a Serbian Orthodox bishop who is the current Metropolitan of Zagreb and Ljubljana of the Serbian Orthodox Church, since 2014. Before that, he was titular bishop of Jegar, since 1999.Biography
Bishop Porfirije was born as Prvoslav Perić on 22 July 1961, in the town of Bečej. He finished his primary and secondary education in Čurug and Novi Sad before enrolling to Belgrade University's Faculty of Theology. He was ordained a monk in 1985. In 1999, he was elected titular bishop of Jegar, and appointed vicar to the Eparchy of Bačka. He earned a doctorate in 2004 in Athens, with thesis Possibility of knowability of God in St. Paul’s understanding according to the interpretation of Saint John Chrysostom.
He was president of the Businessman Charity Foundation and president of the Council of Regulatory Authority of Electronic Media in Serbia from 2008 to 2014.
In 2014, he was elected Metropolitan of Zagreb and Ljubljana and enthroned in Zagreb on 13 July by Serbian Patriarch Irinej.
