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Jovan Kantul (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Кантул, fl. 1592 – d. 1614), sometimes numbered Jovan II was the Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch, the spiritual leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church, 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 Serb Uprising of 1596–97). Due to his activiries for planning a Serbian revolt, he was arrested in 1612 and was put into trial in Istanbul. He was found guilty for treason and was executed in 1614.

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  • "Archbishop of Peć and Patriarch of all Serbs and Bulgarians and Western Regions" (Јована м. б. архијепископа пећког и свим Србљем и Бугаром и западним странам патријарха), 20 July 1611.
  • Ilarion Ruvarac (1888). O pećkim patrijarcima: od Makarija do Arsenija III (1557-1690). Štamparija I. Vodicke. У Крци, манастиру у Далмацији сахранило се писмо „Јована м. б. архијепископа пећког и свим Србљем и Бугаром и западним странам патријарха“ писано г. 7122. месецајулија 20. дан у Пећи 1611. всеосвештеном митрополиту ...