Simeon Popović
Simeon Popović (Serbian Cyrillic: Симеон Поповић; 19 December 1854 – 1 April 1941), sometimes romanized as Symeon Popovich, was a Serbian Orthodox hieromonk and the first abbot of the Dajbabe Monastery, which he founded. Biography Symeon was born Savo Popović on 19 December 1854 in the Donji Kraj locality of Cetinje as part of the Montenegrin Popović clan. Soon after his birth, his parents divorced and his father died. His mother remarried in Skadar and left him to be raised by his father's parents. During childhood, his family would often refer to him as Little Savo. He was very close to his uncle Lazo, who was a priest. After finishing primary education in the Cetinje monastery, he participated in the Montenegrin-Turkish war. In 1879, Savo left for Kiev, where he studied at the Theological Seminary and, afterwards, at the Spiritual Academy. After graduation, he, wanting to familiarize himself with the life of the European West, went to France where he studied in Paris and then to Switzerland where he studied in Geneva, an experience that left him very disappointed, leading him to return to Russia in 1887 becoming a monk, then an archdeacon, and eventually a hieromonk, at the famous