He was born as Mihailo Knežević on 10 January 1949 in Mijači, near Valjevo, in a Serbian Orthodox family.

[2] After that he returned to Serbia and thereafter joined again his Kaona Monastery and contributed a great deal to improvement of it as a spiritual centre.

On July 20, 2003, at St. Michael's Cathedral, Belgrade, Patriarch Pavle of Serbia, along with Metropolitans Nikolaj Mrđa of Dabro and Bosnia, Amfilohije Radović of Montenegro and the Littoral, and Bishops Longin Krčo of New Gračanica, Lavrentije Trifunović of Sabac and Valjevo, Irinej Gavrilović of Niš, Irinej Bulović of Bačka, Georgije Đokić of Canada and Dositej Motika of Scandinavia and Britain consecrated him bishop.

[1] He was enthroned on December 30 of same year at St. Sava Monastery in Canberra, by his predecessor in Australia and New Zealand, Nikanor Bogunović.

[4] He died on 30 March 2020, at University Hospital Center Dr Dragiša Mišović in Belgrade, due to complications from the COVID-19 infection.