Jovan Kantul
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Jovan Kantul ( sr-cyr, Јован Кантул, 1592 – d. 1614), sometimes numbered Jovan II was the Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch, the spiritual leader of the
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, from 1592 until his death in 1614. He planned a major revolt in the Ottoman Balkans, with Grdan, the vojvoda of Nikšić, asking the pope for aid (see
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). Owing to his activities for planning a Serbian revolt, he was arrested and put on trial in
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in 1612. He was found guilty of treason and was executed two years later (1614).


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*"Archbishop of Peć and Patriarch of all Serbs and Bulgarians and Western Regions" (), 20 July 1611.


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Official site of the Serbian Orthodox Church: Serbian Archbishops and Patriarchs
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