OTD nel 1219, alla Chiesa ortodossa serba viene concessa l’autocefalia
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OTD nel 1219, alla Chiesa ortodossa serba viene concessa l’autocefalia
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Autocephaly for Orthodox churches means that the local church hierarchy can choose its own head, meaning that it becomes independent. The independence was granted from the Ohrid archdiocese and a new set of rules needed to be written. This was the Nomocannon (Zakonopravilo or Krmčija), written by monk Sava, who would become the first archbishop of the newly-independent church.
This church constitution is still used as the top-level code of the Serbian Orthodox Church and was instituted in 1804 as the constitution for governing Serbia during its First Uprising against the Ottomans (1804-1813).
Pictured: a page of the 1262 copy of the Nomocannon, made in the Monastery of Saint Archangel Michael (today the Monastery of Saint Archangels next to Tivat), held in the library of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences until 1995. It was gifted to the Vatican in 1995.
I was surprised to read that the [Žiča Monastery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDi%C4%8Da) was founded by Sava and became the first seat of the Archbishop after the serbians gained autocephaly. Very important church where kings held their coronation. Interesting to note that **it is not in Kosovo!** I thought the monastery in Peja, Kosovo was the first for the serbs and the most important.
Another fun fact is that this event took place after the 4th crusade so Constantinople was under latin rule. Autocephaly was granted to the serbian church by the emperor-in-exile, **Theodore I Laskaris**, at a time where there were 3 byzantine successor states in exile! Theodore was emperor in Nicaea, but there were also the states of epirus and trebizond.
Theodore took many steps to consolidate vacant orthodox churches that were shut down by the latins. He made a peace treaty with them and everything. Read his wiki [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_I_Laskaris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_I_Laskaris) its very interesting
Yaaaaw, dogs, we also got one recently, congrats, Yo!
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocephaly_of_the_Orthodox_Church_of_Ukraine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocephaly_of_the_Orthodox_Church_of_Ukraine)
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