Jovan Kantul ( sr-cyr, Јован Кантул, 1592 – d. 1614), sometimes numbered Jovan II was the
Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch
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, the spiritual leader of the
Serbian Orthodox Church, from 1592 until his death in 1614. He planned a major revolt in the Ottoman Balkans, with
Grdan
Grdan ( sr-cyr, Грдан; 1596–d. 1612) was the '' vojvoda'' (duke) of the Nikšić '' nahija'', part of the Sanjak of Herzegovina (Ottoman Empire), who led several uprisings against the Ottomans in between 1596 and 1612, alongside Serbian Pa ...
, the vojvoda of Nikšić, asking the pope for aid (see
Serb Uprising of 1596–97
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). Owing to his activities for planning a Serbian revolt, he was arrested and put on trial in
Istanbul
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in 1612. He was found guilty of treason and was executed two years later (1614).
Title
*"Archbishop of Peć and Patriarch of all Serbs and Bulgarians and Western Regions" (), 20 July 1611.
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