Five years of the episcopal ministry of Bishop Kiril
Five years ago, July 31st, 2016 at the Cathedral church of the Resurrection of Christ in Podgorica consecration of Bishop Kiril (Bojovic) of Dioclea was performed during the Holy Hierarchical Liturgy.
Kiril (in the world Milan) Bojovic was born in Podgorica on February 4th, 1969. He completed primary and secondary school at Danilovgrad. After the army service, he enrolled the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in 1988, which he completed in 1992. From 1993 until 2000 he worked as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Natural History and Mathematics in Podgorica.
The Bishop Electus completed postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics of the University of Belgrade. In 2000 he left his secular job and with the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije he became a novice of the Cetinje monastery. He took monastic name Kiril after Holy Cyril the Slav. The same year he was ordained hierodeacon. With the blessing of Metropolitan Amfilohije he enrolled the Moscow Theological Academy in 2005.
On 21 May 2006 Metropolitan Amfilohije ordained him as hieromonk.
In 2008 he graduated at the Moscow Theological Academy. Since January 1st, 2009, upon the decision of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the SOC, he worked as teacher of the Theological Seminary of Saint Peter of Cetinje at Cetinje, where he taught the New Testament.
Since the feast-day of St. Peter 2008, he was the editor-in- chief of the magazine “Svetigora” of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral as well.
On January 3rd, 2010, Metropolitan Amfilohije promoted him as protosyncellos.
Upon the blessing of Metropolitan Amfilohije, he decided to continue his education at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the Belgrade University.
On June 30th, 2013, on the feast-day of All Saints, during the consecration of the crypt of the Cathedral church of the Resurrection of Christ in Podgorica, Metropolitan Amfilohije promoted him as archimandrite.
By the decision of Bishop-Administrator of the Diocese of Buenos Aires and South-Central America, Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral, he became Bishop’s deputy in the Diocese of Buenos Aires and South Central American on 15 December 2014.
He was elected Vicar Bishop in the Diocese of Montenegro and the Littoral, with the title "Bishop of Dioclea", at the Holy Assembly of Bishops in May 2016. The consecration of the elected Bishop of Dioclea, Archimandrite Kiril Bojovic, was performed in the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Podgorica on July 31, 2016. The Holy Hierarchical Liturgy was served by His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch with several hierarchs of the Serbian Church.
At the session of the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church in May 2018, he was elected Bishop of Buenos Aires and South Central America.
He is a Serb by nationality, a citizen of Montenegro. He is fluent in Russian and Church Slavonic, knows Spanish well, and speaks English, ancient Greek and Latin.
