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Hierodeacon Methodios (born August 15, 1990), is an eastern orthodox theologian, scholar, and musician.

Early life
Marko Pranić was born in Split, the Republic of Croatia, on August 15, 1990, as the oldest of five children of Slobodan and Deniza (née Mišura). He grew up in Stari Grad (island of Hvar).

He graduated from the Archdiocesan Classical Gymnasium in Split in 2009.

Education
Marko Pranić received an S.T.B. degree from the Institute of Philosophy and Theology of the Pontifical Gregorian University in 2014. Following graduation, he began studies in music (organ and music theory) at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, and in 2017 graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Music from the University of Rochester. Following a one-year break devoted to full-time work as the Associate Director of Music and Organist, and pursuing a recitalist career as an organist   , he enrolled as a full-time student in the graduate program at St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry in Rochester, NY, receiving a Master of Arts (Theological Studies) degree with a specialization in systematic theology in 2019. Shortly after graduation, he began studies at the Liturgical Institute of the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary (Pontifical Faculty of Theology) and received an S.T.L. degree with a specialization in liturgical studies and sacramental theology in 2021, under the mentorship of Fr. Emery de Gaál, Ph.D. In October of 2020, with the blessing of the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church and Patriarch Irinej of blessed memory, Marko began doctoral studies (Th.D.) at the Faculty of Theology of the Serbian Orthodox Church at the University of Belgrade (Serbia), specializing in liturgical studies under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Nenad Milošević. His research interests are the Liturgy of the Presanctified in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Academic career
Marko taught courses on History of Sacred Music and Chant Practicum as part of the Certificate Program at St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry (2017-2018), as well as the following graduate-level courses: Academic Writing Seminar, and Sacraments of Initiation & RCIA (2020).

During his studies in organ performance at the Eastman School of Music under David Higgs, he was selected as one of the E.P. Biggs Fellows at the 2015 Organ Historical Society's National Convention.

In 2020 he was invited to return to his Alma Mater (FTIDI/PUG) as a Visiting Professor of Liturgy, where he taught course De Sacra Liturgia, along with an elective course in the field of liturgical studies, as well as mentoring students' S.T.B. theses and annual papers.

As of 2021, he has been teaching courses Principles of Orthodoxy I and II, Liturgical Theology, and Liturgical Theology Graduate Seminar at the Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary in Jordanville, New York, as a teaching fellow. In 2023, he was promoted to the rank of Senior Lecturer.

In 2022, he was appointed as the Commissioner of the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church to oversee and lead the process of accreditation of St. Sava Serbian Orthodox School of Theology in Libertyville, IL.

Monastic life
Marko began his monastic life as a novice in the Serbian Orthodox Church in 2020. Shortly thereafter, he was sent to the Holy Trinity Monastery and Seminary in Jordanville, New York, to receive monastic formation, as well as to teach at the Seminary. As of August 2022, he is temporarily residing at the Holy Archangels Monastery in Kovilj, Serbia, while completing doctoral studies and working at the Holy Synod of Bishops in Belgrade. On the eve of the Feast of All Saints, June 10, 2023, he was tonsured a schema-monk by His Grace bishop Irinej of bačka. On the Feast of Venerable Justin Popovich of Chelije, he was ordained a hierodeacon by His Grace bishop Damaskin, vicar of the diocese of Novi Sad-Bačka.

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