Nikon I, Serbian Patriarch
Nikon I | |
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| Religion | Christianity |
| Nationality | Serbian |
| Known for | Archbishop of the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć and the Serbian patriarch from 1419 to 1435 |
Nikon I, Serbian Patriarch was the archbishop of the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć and the Serbian patriarch from 1419 to 1435.[1]
Nikon was on the throne of the Serbian Church during the reign of despot Stefan Lazarević and after.[2] As a matter of fact, Stefan had taken a direct interest in selecting Nikon to head the Church. The earliest mention of this Serbian hierarch was noted in 1419 in the "Praise to Prince Lazar" written by Antonije Rafail, a writer of Greek origin who fled to Serbia from the Ottoman Empire. One eulogy-praise was written in 1424 by order of Patriarch Nikon. In the spring of 1426, at a state Sabor held in Srebrenica, Stefan selected and appointed Đurađ Branković as his successor. Patriarch Nikon was also present at the assembly. The following year (1427), the new ruler of Serbia, Despot Đurađ Branković, forbade Serbian Patriarch Nikon to attend the Council of Florence on 6 July 1439 on the grounds that he distrusted the motives of that council and questioned the principle of papal supremacy.
In Јеванђеље (the Gospel), which was transcribed by the monk Dositej around 1428, in a longer record, testimony about the difficult situation in Serbia after the death of despot Stefan is preserved. Patriarch Nikon moved his residence of the Žiča monastery to the Danube region, where the Serbian Church council was held. There are several different opinions about the venue of the assembly, but the prevailing opinion is that it was in Belgrade, the then capital of Serbia.
Patriarch Nikon is especially deserving, not only for our church and artistic life but also for literature. By his order and request, Constantine of Kostenets wrote The Life of Despot Stefan Lazarević, one of the most important works of Serbian medieval literature.[3]
The last mention of Patriarch Nikon is from 1435 in a record of the manuscript Triodion transcribed by Deacon Arsenije.
Literature
- „Никон (патријарх српски)” (Nikon, Serbian Patriarch) Народна енциклопедија (National Encyclopedia). Загреб: Библиографски завод. 1927 (Zagreb: Bibliographic Institute, 1927)
- Вуковић, Сава (Sava Vuković, 1996). Српски јерарси од деветог до двадесетог века (Serbian Hierarch from the Ninth- to the Twentieth-century). Евро, Унирекс, Каленић (Evro, Unireks, Kalenić).
- Поповић, Јелена Р. (Jelena P. Popović, 2014). „Положај Српске Православне Цркве у последњим деценијама српске Деспотовине” (Position of the Serbian Orthodox Church during the last decades of the Despotate, PDF). Богословље: Часопис Православног богословског факултета у Београду (Bogoslovlje: Journal of the Orthodox Theological Faculty in Belgrade), edition 73 (1): 151—160.
References
- ↑ Вуковић 1996, p. 378.
- ↑ Efthymiadis, Professor Stephanos (28 July 2013). The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography: Volume I: Periods and Places. ISBN 9781409482680.
- ↑ Efthymiadis, Professor Stephanos (28 July 2013). The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography: Volume I: Periods and Places. ISBN 9781409482680.
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