Teodosije Mraović

[1] Teodosije studied philosophy in Budapest and theology at Sremski Karlovci and entered a monastic order at the Rakovica Monastery, near Belgrade.

The Serbian bishops were subsequently replaced with new appointees: another professor of the Belgrade Seminary, Nestor, born in Kragujevac, was appointed Bishop of Niš; the Sremski Karlovci born archimandrite of the Hopovo Monastery, Samuilo, was sent to Šabac while Kornelije (Cornelius), the administrator of the Ravanica Monastery, in Serbia, was elevated to the Bishopric of Užice.

As far as the deposed Metropolitan Mihailo Jovanović was concerned, this new Church administration, unlawfully elected and appointed, was uncanonical according to Serbian ecclesiastical law (Zakonopravilo) despite the blessing given by the Ecumenical Patriarch in Constantinople in 1884.

The whole period of Prince Milan Obrenović's rule of Serbia was an extremely trying time for the country, the people, and the Serbian Orthodox Church in particular.

[3] His predecessor, Russian-educated Metropolitan Mihailo Jovanović, sacked for being pro-Russian by the Serbian government that favored Austrian rapprochement instead.