Mitrofan Kodić

Mitrofan Kodić (Serbian Cyrillic: Митрофан Кодић; born August 4, 1951) is a Serbian Orthodox bishop who has served as the head of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Canada since 2016. He was formerly the Bishop of the Eastern American Eparchy.

In English, his name is sometimes spelled as Mitrophan.

Biography He was born on August 4, 1951 in Ljuša in the municipality of Šipovo. He was ordained as a hierodeacon by Bishop Stefan Boca on December 4, 1970 after which he completed his Seminary studies at Krka monastery in 1971. He was ordained a hieromonk on January 6, 1974. He then returned to Krka monastery where he was named assistant Rector of the Seminary in 1980 and Rector in 1987.

He is also a Professor of the New Testament at the St. Sava School of Theology in Libertyville, Illinois. His new title is Archbishop of Toronto and Metropolitan of Canada.

Works He translated from the Romanian Dumitru Stăniloae's Community and Spirituality in the Orthodox Liturgy, three volumes of Orthodox Dogmatics, The Immortal Image of God, Orthodox Moral Theology, and The Gospel Image of Christ by Dumitru Stăniloae, and The Romanian Patericon I and II and the Dictionary of Orthodox Theology by hieromonk Ioanichie Bălan.

He has written two books: The Teaching of St. Apostle Paul on the Church, published in 1991 in Chicago (now translated into English) and Introduction to the Holy Scriptures of the New Testament.