Evgenije Letica
He started his early education in Plaški and Ogulin and continued it, under the patronage of the Metropolitan, in Sremski Karlovci where he graduated from Gymnasium and then studied law in Vienna, Graz and Zagreb, where he passed three state exams respectfully.That year, he left the civil service and went to Zagreb, working as a legal clerk with Hipotekarna banka.Letica was ordained a priest by Bishop Lukijan Bogdanović in Szentendre on 18 April 1898, after which he returned to Timișoara.The new diocese consisted of 13 districts: Banja Luka; Kotor Varos; Derventa; Prnjavor; Bosanska Gradiška; Tešanj; Bihać; Prijedor; Ključ, Una-Sana Canton; Bosanski Petrovac; Stari Majdan; and Sanski Most with 134 parishes.[3] The Act of Establishment of the New Metropolis was issued by the Patriarchate of Constantinople on 13 August 1899, and the Vienna Court upheld that decision on 14 January 1900.On this occasion, he visited the churches in Derventa, the chapels in Kladari and Kotorsko, the chapel in Velika Sočanica, the church in Majevac, Dugo Polje, Odžak, Dubica, Novi Grad, Donji Svilaj, Vinska, Lijesti and Bosanski Brod.For seven years in the Metropolitanate of Banja Luka-Bihac, Metropolitan Evgenije consecrated new churches: in Maglaj, Vrbas, Bistrica, Omaša, Nozice, Slabin, Bosanski Kobaš, Bastas, Trubar, Veliki Cvjetnić, Krneusa, Bačvani, Čađavica, Bijeljina, Palanci, Malić, Donji Dubovik, Branešci, Srbac, Sanica, Svodna, Pribinić, Mašići and Štrpci as well as schools in Sanski Most and the monastery of Mostanica.On December 20, 1907, the Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, named Evgenije Letica as Mandic's successor for the Metropolitan of Banja Luka-Bihać.The Sarajevo Church Court also conducted the affairs of a priestly-widowed pension fund for the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina.Metropolitan Evgenije, who often visited his diocese, also asked the clergy to work on spreading literacy through 1909 circular.