He defended his master's degree thesis under the guidance of David Bankier, head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research in Yad Vashem.

On the eve of Nativity of John the Baptist in 1993, he was tonsured a monk there, receiving the monastic name of Jovan (from Church Slavonic: Їωан).

[1] From 1993 to 2003, Jovan lectured on Serbian and Slovene literature, general history, and was also the secretary of Theological Seminary of St. Peter of Cetinje.

On 31 October 1995 in the Stanjevići Monastery, Budva Metropolitan bishop Amfilohije Radović of Montenegro and the Littoral ordained him as a hierodeacon.

In January 2001, Jovan visited Israel, as a member of the Yugoslavia State Delegation, and prestented his viewpoints on the Kosovo Question.

In the same year, this connection went to Italy to build cooperation with Italian institutions for the protection of the heritage of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo and Metochia.

[1] In the early 2000s, Jovan contributed to the efforts of the Serbian Orthodox Church for the rehabilitation of Nikolaj Velimirović, a controversial figure due to his extensive anti-Semitic rhetoric in the 1930s.

On March 14–15, 2007, as a representative of the Serbian Orthodox Church, he participated in the 6th meeting between Orthodoxy and Judaism at Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

[6] He widely developed the work of the Jasenovac Commission of the Serbian Church to promote the worldwide awareness of the Genocide of Serbs.

[13] In October 2002, Jovan was introduced to the reserve composition of the 63rd Parachute Brigade of the Serbian Army, where he received military training and non-commissioned officer rank of Sergeant first class.