Mihailo Petrović (Chetnik)

Mihailo Petrović (Gradac, Serbia, 30 June 1871 – Raška, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 28 April 1941) was an early member of the Serbian Chetnik Organization and the Society of Saint Sava.

Among his colleagues at the time were Milan Rakić, Jovan Dučić, Nikolaj Velimirović, and other prominent Serbian men of letters, theologians, and diplomats.

Petrović was also a member of the Association of Reserve Officers and Warriors that commissioned a number of monuments to the fallen Chetnik fighters in the mid-1920s.

Archpriest Petrović was Bishop of Žiča Nikolaj Velimirović's deputy (arhijerejski namesnik/Bishop's Dean) for the Studenica district with its seat in Raška from 1919-1920 and later from 1936-1941.

The Petrović and Milenković families are honored by Israel's Yad Vashem memorial as one of the Righteous Among the Nations, an honour given to non-Jews who behaved with heroism in trying to save Jews from the genocide of the Holocaust.