Saint Nikodemos, Archbishop of Serbia

Saint Nikodemos (Νikόdēmos) the Archbishop of Serbia, a gifted ecclesiastical writer and learned theologian, like many Serbian bishops, first contested on Holy Mount Athos where he was tonsured, and then he was chosen as Igoumen of Hilandar Monastery (1312–1316). The Hieromonk Gervasius wrote that the Saint was a native of "a western country, the land of Raska, called Serbia." After the death of the Serbian Archbishop Sava III, Saint Nikodemos was elected as Archbishop of All Serbia and the Land of Pomor, and ascended the primatial throne in 1317. The Hierarch translated the Rule of Saint Savva the Sanctified from Greek into Serbian. In the Synaxarion he included the dates of the repose of the Serbian rulers and Archbishops in order to commemorate the departed with festive services (if they were glorified as Saints). In his translation of the Jerusalem Typikon, Archbishop Nikodemos remin...

Источник: https://www.oca.org/saints/all-lives/2026/05/11

Название источника: OCA Lives of the Saints

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