Joanikije Lipovac was an Eastern Orthodox metropolitan who served the Diocese of Montenegro and the Littoral during the mid-20th century. Born in the Bay of Kotor in 1890, he studied theology in Zadar and philosophy in Belgrade before beginning his clerical career. He rose through the church hierarchy to become an auxiliary bishop in 1939 and eventually the metropolitan. His leadership during the Second World War and his subsequent execution by Yugoslav Partisans in 1945 led to his later recognition as a saint within the Serbian Orthodox Church.