1625–59) was an Eastern Orthodox bishop in Montenegro and Primorje, serving as the Metropolitan of Cetinje from 1637 to 1659, under the jurisdiction of the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć.
[7] Mardarije and the monastic brotherhood brought the suit to the Sultan's kadi (judge), as Montenegro at the time was "ruled by the Ottomans" (as said by himself).
[10] He was imprisoned by the Ottomans due to his closeness with the Papacy and then released from prison in 1639 or 1640, after which he met up with Francesco Leonardi in the Bay of Kotor.
[11] The Vatican Congregation for Propaganda sought to gain Mardarije and Pajsije I, the Serbian Patriarch of Peć, to the church union (1640).
[9] His title is unknown,[4] though in 1640 he called himself "bishop [...] from the Macedonian region of the land of Montenegro, of the Cetinje monastery" (episkup ... od predel makedonskih, zemle Crne Gore, od manastira Cetinja) or simply "of Montenegro" (ot zemle Crne Gore), and also as Latin: Marderius Dei gratia Episcopus Macedoniae, patriae Magni Alexandri, Montisnigri.