Dimitrije Mladenović (Serbian Cyrillic: Димитрије Младеновић; 1794-1890) was an Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople Protoiereus in the Kumanovo kaza (district) of the Ottoman Empire.

Dimitrije
Churchwarden of the Metropolitan of Skopje for the Kumanovo kaza
ChurchEcumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
ProvinceSanjak of Skopje
MetropolisPajsije of Skopje
DioceseSkopje
SeeConstantinople
Installed1833
Term ended1890
Predecessorunknown
Successorunknown
Personal details
Born
Dimitrije Mladenović

1794
Proevce, Kumanovo kaza, Ottoman Empire (today North Macedonia)
Died1890
Kumanovo, Ottoman Empire (today North Macedonia)
NationalityRum Millet
DenominationEastern Orthodoxy
ResidenceKumanovo
ChildrenKateriana
OccupationChurchwarden

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He was born in 1794 in the village of Proevce (now North Macedonia). He became a priest in 1818, then a protojerej (archpriest) in 1830, and finally an ikonom (churchwarden) of the Kumanovo district subordinate to the Metropolitan of Skopje (Patriarchate of Constantinople) in 1833.[1] He was commonly known as the "Old Churchwarden" (Стари иконом).[2]

In the period of 1847–51, the Church of St. Nicholas in Kumanovo was built by the ktitors: ikonom priest Dimitrije, Krsto Puto and his son Denko Krstić, priest Neša, Hadži-Stojilković, and the families of Rikačovci, Šapkalijanci, Borozani and Stojanćeajini.[3]

He was taken down from the position of ikonom in 1855 but returned to the office a year later.[4] In 1860 he and Denko Krstić were called to a hearing in Skopje by the Grand Vizier Mehmed Pasha Kibrizli, to be hanged, but paid for their release.[4] Later in 1871 he was called by the vali in Prizren for questioning of his "immoral lifestyle", allegedly a campaign of the Bulgarian Exarchate, but he was released under a plea of the local population of Kumanovo to the Vali.[5]

After the death of Dimitrije, Denko Krstić succeeded as the ikonom of Kumanovo.[6] His daughter Katerina married Hadži-Vasilje from Vranje, from which marriage the acclaimed historian and ethnographer Jovan Hadži-Vasiljević sprung.

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References edit

  1. ^ Hadži-Vasiljević 1909, p. 504.
  2. ^ Brastvo. Društvo sv. Save. 1921. Кад се и у Кумановском крају, 1870-их година, појавила бугарашка струја, на челу српскога народа стајао је дугoгoгодишњи дотле митрополитски намесник, Димитрије Младеновић у Куманову познат под именом Стари Иконом
  3. ^ Hadži-Vasiljević 1909, p. 556.
  4. ^ a b Hadži-Vasiljević 1909, p. 505.
  5. ^ Hadži-Vasiljević 1909, p. 506.
  6. ^ Hadži-Vasiljević 1930, p. 500.

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Religious titles
Preceded by
unknown
Ikonom of Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in Kumanovo
(1833–1880)
Succeeded by