Nićifor Dučić was born in the village of Velji Lug, near Trebinje in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1832.
He received an excellent education in Serbia,  Serbian Vojvodina, and later in Paris.
During the 1848 Revolution he joined the Austrians as a young volunteer, and after he returned to his native Herzegovina  where at the Duži Monastery he took holy orders under the guidance of his uncle, the abbot (archimandrite).
In 1858 he founded with Serafim Perović a school in Duži, and taught religion and history in Mostar.
From late 1858 until 1860he oversaw the Žitomislić Monastery, situated near the River Neretva.
There he wrote several series of monographs, literary histories, archaeological questions, including the history of Metox Monastery Duži and Tvrdoš, Žitomislić Monastery, Hilandar Monastery, and about the Serbian community and the Serbian Orthodox Church of Saint Spiridon in downtown Trieste.


 
In 1848 in Žitomislić Monastery was founded the first school for education of Serbian children and a school for education of Orthodox priests, which were established by monks of the manastir, chiefly Nićifor Dučić and Sirafin Perović.

Dučić himself served in his youth in the Herzegovinian Uprising of 1852-1862, led by Luka Vukalović.
Dučić's strength, daring and activity fitted him to shine in operations largely composed of night marches, surprises, escalades, and hand-to-hand combat.
The main scene of his achievement was in Bosnia and Herzegovina and when those hostilities died down, and there was no amnesty forthcoming from the Ottoman Porte and Constantinople as promised, Dučić left for Montenegro.
He had a relation in Cetinje where he settled in 1864.
There he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite, and he also helped Serafim Perović, his old friend from Duži, start a school of higher learning.
When Perović opened the first seminary at Cetinje, Dučić was named rector.
He wrote and published the rules of the school.
Conditions for the pupils were favourable, with particular considerations for the poorest among them.
He also entered into Montenegrin service, and was immediately nominated to head a diplomatic mission as an intermediary between Cetinje and Belgrade.

Returning with general Milojko Lešjanin, Nićifor Dučić, now Nicholas I of Montenegro's envoy, exchanged copies of a treaty with Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia and Prime Minister Ilija Garašanin signed October 14, 1867.
Its stated purpose was to "prepare an insurrection in Turkey and unite the entire Serbian people in a single state."
His pamphlets and revolutionary doctrines (that came to Austrian and Turkish attention) compelled him to leave Montenegro for Italy.

Travelling about the Serbian communities in diaspora, Dučić had an opportunity to become personally acquainted with the strong patriotic feelings of these scattered Serbs, which would eventually give his observations all the more weight.
In the meantime, Garašanin was preparing a general rising of all Serb lands against Turkish rule, and in 1868 Dučić was  back in Belgrade.
But the execution of Garašanin's plans was frustrated by the assassination of Prince Mihailo (Obrenović) on the 10th of June 1868 (or the 28th of May 1868 O.S.).
Dučić was long a warm advocate of the political union of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbian Vojvodina, Kosovo Metohija, and Serbia.

With the accession of Prince Milan I of Serbia, the newly appointed prime minister Jovan Ristić employed Dučić for secret missions on behalf the Government, such as negotiating with the Turks.
During September 1873, as Ristić's envoy, Dučić held consultations with Croatian politicians Matija Mrazović and Franjo Rački about the unification of all Serbian people with Serbia.

Nicifor Dučić and count Petar Vukotić had become champions of the idea of friendship and alliance with Serbia and favoured the unification of Montenegro with Serbia.
They and Prince Nicholas believed that Montenegro's policy must be subject to Serbia's and that Serbian nation's salvation lays in complete unification with the rest of lands inhabited b
Nićifor Dučić was born in the village of Velji Lug, near Trebinje in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1832. He received an excellent education in Serbia,  Serbian Vojvodina, and later in Paris. During the 1848 Revolution he joined the Austrians as a young volunteer, and after he returned to his native Herzegovina  where at the Duži Monastery he took holy orders under the guidance of his uncle, the abbot (archimandrite). In 1858 he founded with Serafim Perović a school in Duži, and taught religion and history in Mostar. From late 1858 until 1860he oversaw the Žitomislić Monastery, situated near the River Neretva. There he wrote several series of monographs, literary histories, archaeological questions, including the history of Metox Monastery Duži and Tvrdoš, Žitomislić Monastery, Hilandar Monastery, and about the Serbian community and the Serbian Orthodox Church of Saint Spiridon in downtown Trieste.

 
In 1848 in Žitomislić Monastery was founded the first school for education of Serbian children and a school for education of Orthodox priests, which were established by monks of the manastir, chiefly Nićifor Dučić and Sirafin Perović.
Dučić himself served in his youth in the Herzegovinian Uprising of 1852-1862, led by Luka Vukalović. Dučić's strength, daring and activity fitted him to shine in operations largely composed of night marches, surprises, escalades, and hand-to-hand combat. The main scene of his achievement was in Bosnia and Herzegovina and when those hostilities died down, and there was no amnesty forthcoming from the Ottoman Porte and Constantinople as promised, Dučić left for Montenegro. He had a relation in Cetinje where he settled in 1864. There he was elevated to the rank of archimandrite, and he also helped Serafim Perović, his old friend from Duži, start a school of higher learning. When Perović opened the first seminary at Cetinje, Dučić was named rector. He wrote and published the rules of the school. Conditions for the pupils were favourable, with particular considerations for the poorest among them. He also entered into Montenegrin service, and was immediately nominated to head a diplomatic mission as an intermediary between Cetinje and Belgrade.
Returning with general Milojko Lešjanin, Nićifor Dučić, now Nicholas I of Montenegro's envoy, exchanged copies of a treaty with Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia and Prime Minister Ilija Garašanin signed October 14, 1867. Its stated purpose was to "prepare an insurrection in Turkey and unite the entire Serbian people in a single state." His pamphlets and revolutionary doctrines (that came to Austrian and Turkish attention) compelled him to leave Montenegro for Italy.
Travelling about the Serbian communities in diaspora, Dučić had an opportunity to become personally acquainted with the strong patriotic feelings of these scattered Serbs, which would eventually give his observations all the more weight. In the meantime, Garašanin was preparing a general rising of all Serb lands against Turkish rule, and in 1868 Dučić was  back in Belgrade. But the execution of Garašanin's plans was frustrated by the assassination of Prince Mihailo (Obrenović) on the 10th of June 1868 (or the 28th of May 1868 O.S.). Dučić was long a warm advocate of the political union of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbian Vojvodina, Kosovo Metohija, and Serbia.
With the accession of Prince Milan I of Serbia, the newly appointed prime minister Jovan Ristić employed Dučić for secret missions on behalf the Government, such as negotiating with the Turks. During September 1873, as Ristić's envoy, Dučić held consultations with Croatian politicians Matija Mrazović and Franjo Rački about the unification of all Serbian people with Serbia.
Nicifor Dučić and count Petar Vukotić had become champions of the idea of friendship and alliance with Serbia and favoured the unification of Montenegro with Serbia. They and Prince Nicholas believed that Montenegro's policy must be subject to Serbia's and that Serbian nation's salvation lays in complete unification with the rest of lands inhabited b
Nićifor Dučić