Три српска архиепископа „јерусалимца“ из друге половине 13. века (original) (raw)

2022, НАУКОВІ ЗАПИСКИ БОГОСЛОВСЬКО-ІСТОРИЧНОГО НАУКОВО-ДОСЛІДНОГО ЦЕНТРУ ІМЕНІ АРХІМАНДРИТА ВАСИЛІЯ (ПРОНІНА)

THREE SERBIAN ARCHBISHOPS “JERUSALEMITES” FROM THE SECOND HALF OF THE 13TH CENTURY This paper analyzes the information provided in the Collection known as “Lives of the Serbian Kings and Archbishops” about three archbishops of the Serbian church from the second half of the 13th century and their relations to the Holy Land, Jerusalem and the Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Based on the analysis of the Lives of St. Sava II, St. Ioanikios I and St. Eustathios, who presided over the Serbian church from 1263 to 1286, we bring to attention new details about the nature of relations between the representatives of the Serbian church and the Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the second half of the 13th century – relations which were established already by Saint Sava, the first archbishop of the Serbian church, in 1229 and 1234. We demonstrate that the future Serbian archbishops, St. Sava II (brother of the Serbian king Uroš I and the nephew of Saint Sava), and his disciple Ioanikios I, both as monks, while visiting the Holy Land and Jerusalem, had indeed close contact with the anonymous Patriarch of Jerusalem, whom we in this paper identify as Sophronios II, who provided the Serbian monks with his blessing and also gave his patriarchal consent for the monk Ioanikios I to be consecrated deacon and priest by one of the bishops of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, in Jerusalem. This tradition is later continued by the future archbishop Eustathios I who in his time visited Jerusalem and several great monasteries in the vicinity of the Holy City. We conclude that relations between the representatives of the Serbian church, who would later become Serbian archbishops, with the Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the late 13th century, were additionally affirmed and continued to have a significant role in local political processes and interecclesiastical relations in late 13th century Balkans.