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The Superiors of Manasija Monastery Through History

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The names of the known superiors of the monastery of Resava - Manasija that are mentioned in historical sources and in the literature, as well as the names of the known saints of Manasija.

?A question mark has been placed next to the names of those persons for whom it is not clear, on the basis of their mention in the sources, whether in that year they were superiors of the monastery of Resava / Manasija.

  1. I · 1406 – 1813

    from the founding to the beginning of the 19th century

    From the first mentions to Abbot Joanikije

    1. [1406/7]

      unknown - if the monastery was active from the beginning of construction?

    2. 1418

      ?unknown

    3. c. 1476

      Nikon (the monk to whom the monastery “Svetoduhna” was added) ? BT 250–251

    4. c. 1476/1477

      Nikon ? (the monastery turned into a storehouse?)

    5. 1478 Nikanor (a monk tonsured at Resava, who becomes abbot of Bođani) SSZN 2362

    6. more than two centuries later…

    7. 1720 Caludier (the Resava monks - kaluđeri) IKAV 62

    8. 1723 or 1724 the “Resavci” (monks?) who serve as priests in the Resava parish EPES 153

    9. 1724 “the kaluđeri of Resava” PTV 322

    10. 1725

      Proegumen Arsenije ? SSZN 10234

    11. before 1730

      Abbot Josif IMR 148, 151

    12. 1730 at the latest

      Abbot Joasaf (appointed by a synodal letter of Metropolitan Mojsije Petrović) IMR 167

    13. 1733 and 1734

      Abbot Joasaf IMR 167; TAKS 129

    14. before 1734

      Proegumen Sava EB 107

    15. 1736

      Joasaf Stefanović, former abbot of Resava and in 1736 abbot of Bođani ? SSZN 2674

    16. 1741

      Joasaf, abbot of Bođani KONT 88

    17. 1756

      Abbot Joasaf Stefanović is in the monastery of Bođani

    18. 1790

      the Resava monk Gligorije ? (Ahmed Pasha addressed a letter to him)

    19. c. 1804

      Abbot Joanikije, a native of Leskovac

    20. 1806

      Abbot Joanikije SSZN 3834

    21. 1810

      Abbot Joanikije SSZN 3878

    22. 1813 the monastery again deserted

  2. II · 1815 – 1904

    from the beginning of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century

    Abbots and archimandrites of the nineteenth century

    1. 1815–1822

      7 years

      Abbot Joanikije

    2. 1822–1823

      1 year

      Hieromonk Moldovan

    3. 1823–1830

      7 years

      Abbot Savva, a native of Gložane

    4. 1830–1831

      1 year

      Abbot Mojsej, a native of Burovac

    5. 1832–1841

      9 years

      Abbot Isaija Stojišić, a native of Vlakča

    6. 1841–1844

      3 years

      Hieromonk Samuil Janković, a native of Šabac

    7. 1845–1851

      6 years

      Abbot Isaija Stojišić

    8. 1851–1854

      3 years

      Protosyncellus Gerasim Stojković, a native of Arad

    9. 1854–1861

      7 years

      Archimandrite Evgenije Simeonović, a native of Bela Crkva

    10. 1861–1896

      35 years

      Hieromonk Kiril Vukelić, a native of Ruma; archimandrite from 1871

    11. 1896–1904

      8 years

      Abbot Miron Đorđević; archimandrite from 1901

    12. 1897 Saint Rafailo of Šišatovac was tonsured a monk in Manasija Monastery

    13. 1898 Saint Dositej the Confessor of Zagreb was tonsured a monk in Manasija Monastery