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first archbishop of Serbs

Person · Open Library

Born
1169 or 1174
Died
14 January 1235
Works
14

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Group
Country
DE
Active from
2004

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  • At first we were confused. The East thought that we were West while the West considered us to be the East. Some of us misunderstood our place in this clash of currents, so they cried that we belong to neither side, and others that we belong exclusively to one side or the other. But I tell you, Irinej, we are doomed by fate to be the East in the West, and the West in the East, to acknowledge only heavenly Jerusalem beyond us and here on earth — no-one.

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Key facts

Born
Rastko Nemanjić, 1169 or 1174 , Miščiće , Grand Principality of Serbia
Died
( 1235-01-14 ) 14 January 1235, Tarnovo , Bulgarian Empire
Venerated in
Eastern Orthodox Church , Catholic Church
Major shrine
Church of Saint Sava , Belgrade
Feast
January 27 [ O.S. January 14 ]
Attributes
Ktetor , teacher , theologian , legislator , diplomat, writer
Patronage
Serbia , Serbs , Serbian schools , Serbian medicine
Reign
12th century
Predecessor
Miroslav
Successor
Miroslav
Dynasty
Nemanjić
Father
Stefan Nemanja
Church
Serbian Archbishopric
See
Žiča
Other post
Archimandrite
Ordination
Patriarch Manuel I of Constantinople
Buried
Holy Forty Martyrs Church (until May 6, 1237), Mileševa (until 1594)
Denomination
Eastern Orthodoxy

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date of birth
1175-00-00
Commons category
Saint Sava
date of death
1236-01-14
birth name
Растислав Немањић
name in native language
Свети Сава
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Saint Sava (Serbian Cyrillic: Свети Сава, romanized: Sveti Sava, Serbian pronunciation: [sʋɛ̂ːtiː sǎːʋa]; 1169 or 1174 – 14 January 1235), known as the Enlightener or the Illuminator, was a Serbian prince and Eastern Orthodox monk who became the first Archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church. He was also a writer, diplomat, and the founder of Serbian law.

Sava, born as Rastko Nemanjić (Serbian Cyrillic: Растко Немањић), was the youngest son of Serbian Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja (founder of the Nemanjić dynasty), and ruled the appanage of Zachlumia briefly in 1190–92. He then left for Mount Athos, where he became a monk and took the monastic name Sava (Sabbas). At Athos he established the monastery of Hilandar, which became one of the most important cultural and religious centres of the Serbian people. In 1219, the Patriarchate exiled in Nicea recognized him as the first Serbian Archbishop, and in the same year, he authored the oldest known constitution of Serbia, the Zakonopravilo nomocanon, thus securing full religious and political independence. Sava is regarded as the greatest figure of Serbian medieval literature and author of the first Serbian "biography". Specifically, he wrote the life of his father, the Serbian ruler Stefan Nemanja.

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