Bogdan Zimonjić, ( sr-cyr, Богдан Зимоњић; 1813 – 21 January 1909) was a

Serbian Orthodox The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. The majority of the populat ...

priest and Vojvoda (military commander) in two major uprisings against the

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in 19th-century Herzegovina: in 1852–62, and 1875–78. He is mentioned in archival sources along with other Serbian freedom-fighting priests, including

Jovica Ilić Priest Jovica's Rebellion () was a Christian peasant rebellion that broke out in the Derventa and Gradačac ''nahiye'', in Bosnian Posavina, in 10–13 March 1834, organized by Orthodox priest Jovica Ilić from Banja Luka, stationed in Derventa ...

and his associates

Pavle Tvrtković Pavle Tvrtković ( sr-cyr, Павле Твртковић; 1834–51) was a Serbian Orthodox priest from Bosnia who participated in the rebellion organized by priest Jovica Ilić in northeastern Ottoman Bosnia in March 1834, published a collecti ...

, Mile Vitković, and Stevan Avramović, who rebelled against the occupiers, and another priest, Petko Jagodić of

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, who led the next revolt, while history records further armed clashes led by priests Mile Čulibrk, Marko Popović, Vaso Kovačević, and Gaćina. His son

Petar Zimonjić Petar Zimonjić ( sr-cyr, Петар Зимоњић; 24 June 1866 – June 1941) was a bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church serving as the metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1920 until the beginning of World War II. ...

, the metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia, was killed by the

Ustaše The Ustaše (), also known by anglicised versions Ustasha or Ustashe, was a Croats, Croatian fascist and ultranationalist organization active, as one organization, between 1929 and 1945, formally known as the Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionar ...

regime in the

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in June 1941.

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Secondary sources

Enciklopedija Jugoslavije The ''Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia'', , , , or ''Yugoslavika'' was the national encyclopedia of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Published under the auspices of the Yugoslav Lexicographical Institute in Zagreb and overseen by Mirosl ...

1971. JLZ, Tom 8, Zagreb. {{DEFAULTSORT:Zimonjic, Bogdan 1813 births 1909 deaths Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina 19th-century Serbian people Serbian military leaders Serbian revolutionaries People from Gacko Serbian Orthodox clergy Armed priests