Nikola Bogunović

Holy New Martyr Nikola Bogunović was a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church, born on 3 January 1908 at Zrmanja, in the Gračac district, into an Orthodox family of the Bogunović clan. He finished the seminary at Sremski Karlovci in 1929, was ordained deacon on 4 September 1930 and worked as a clerk at the Diocesan Court in Plaški. He was ordained a priest on 22 February 1932, was assistant parish priest at Nebljusi, and from 1 May 1935 parish priest at Donji Lapac, in Lika. He was deeply loved throughout the Lapac district for his fine manner with the people of Lika, and replaced his father-⁠in-⁠law, the protopresbyter Pavle Obradović, a senator of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Before the start of the Second World War he worked to awaken the national consciousness of the Serbs in Lika. He was arrested and killed by the Ustasha in June 1941, on Velebit. He is regarded as a new martyr of the Serbian Church.