Miron Nikolić

[1] Mihailo Nikolić was born on 27 February 1846 in the village of Kapelni, in Slavonian Podravina, to father Paul, priest, and mother Ana, a housewife.

[2] He completed gymnasium in Podravska Slatina, and École normale supérieure in Osijek where he received his teacher's certificate.

As a bishop, Miron dedicated special care to the priesthood, instituted priesthood confessions, brotherhood councils, made teaching and educational improvements of the clerical personnel by opening libraries in parishes, and establishing a fund for the support of children and orphans of the clergy of the Eparchy of Pakrac.

[1] During the expatriation of Serbs from Slavonia to America, Bishop Miron warned the clergy to protect the people from emigration, and in this sense wrote a letter.

[5] He died on 18 February 1941 in Pakrac,[6] and was buried in the Gavrinica church where his grave was desecrated during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.