Eparchy of Mileševa is the one of eparchies of the

Serbian Orthodox Church The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian denomination, Christian churches. The majori ...

, and is seated in

Prijepolje Prijepolje ( sr-cyr, Пријепоље, ) is a town and municipality located in the Zlatibor District of southwestern Serbia. As of 2011 census, the town has 13,330 inhabitants, while the municipality has 37,059 inhabitants. Etymology One possibl ...

, in the

Mileševa monastery The Mileševa Monastery ( sr-cyr, Манастир Милешева, Manastir Mileševa, or ) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located near Prijepolje, in southwest Serbia. It was founded by King Stefan Vladislav I, in the years between 1234 and ...

History

The establishment of the Eparchy

Eparchy is based in the valley

Lim (river) The Lim (Serbian Cyrillic: Лим, ) is a river that flows through Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and is long.

and laid on the foundation of the

, established in the first half of the 13th century. Eparchy has often changed the name, but he always had a seat in the Mileševa monastery. On the Establishment Mileševo Metropolia very little is known. In a service

Saint Sava Saint Sava ( sr, Свети Сава, Sveti Sava, ; Old Church Slavonic: ; gr, Άγιος Σάββας; 1169 or 1174 – 14 January 1236), known as the Enlightener, was a Serbian prince and Orthodox monk, the first Archbishop of the autocephalou ...

it is called "Glorious Archbishopric". One

Metropolitan Bishop In Christian churches with episcopal polity, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan (alternative obsolete form: metropolite), pertains to the diocesan bishop or archbishop of a metropolis. Originally, the term referred to the b ...

of Mileseva, whose name is unknown, crowned ban

Tvrtko I of Bosnia Stephen Tvrtko I ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Stjepan/Stefan Tvrtko, Стјепан/Стефан Твртко; 1338 – 10 March 1391) was the first king of Bosnia. A member of the House of Kotromanić, he succeeded his uncle Stephen II ...

as Serbian king and Bosnian King in 1377. The first

of Mileseva whose name is known to us, is David. He was a "close associate to Herceg

Stjepan Vukčić Kosača Stjepan Vukčić Kosača ( sr-Cyrl, Стјепан Вукчић Косача; 1404–1466) was the most powerful Bosnian nobleman whose active political career spanned the last three decades of medieval Bosnian history, from 1435 to 1465. D ...

and his sons. " When Herceg Stjepan Vukčić Kosača drawing up a will, Metropolitan Bishop of Mileseva David, wrote and was a witness during the signing of the same. After the Metropolitan David (Metropolitan of Mileseva), and probably under the influence of connection Metropolitanate with the space and the rulers of

Hercegovina Herzegovina ( or ; sh-Latn-Cyrl, Hercegovina, separator=" / ", Херцеговина, ) is the southern and smaller of two main geographical region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being Bosnia. It has never had strictly defined geograp ...

, hierarchs of Mileseva assume the title of ''Metropolitan Herzegovina and Milesevo''. During the next three centuries Metropolitan and the Eparchy dwells in the Mileševa monastery.

Restoration of Mileševa Eparchy

The first impetus for the establishment of the Eparchy, was to extend the title Bishop of Budimlja ''Bishop of Budimlje-Polimski''. This happened after

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, and it lasted only a decade. Finally, the Eparchy of Mileševa the western part of the

Raška (region) Raška ( sr, Рашка; la, Rascia) is a geographical and historical region, covering the south-western parts of modern Serbia, and historically also including north-eastern parts of modern Montenegro, and some of the most eastern parts of mo ...

, Middle

Polimlje The Lim (Serbian Cyrillic: Лим, ) is a river that flows through Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and is long.

and Potarje formed the 1992. year, and since then its center, of the Monastery Mileseva, standing Bishops

Georgije Đokić Georgije Đokić (Serbian Cyrillic: Георгије Ђокић; born May 6, 1949) is a retired Serbian Orthodox The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the aut ...

, Vasilije Veinović and Filaret Mićević. Since 2017, the Bishop of eparchy is Atanasije Rakita.

Monasteries

Monasteries in Serbia

Het klooster van de Heilige Drie-eenheid - Pljevlja

* Mileševa, seatОobnovljeni manastiri
* Banja * Davidovica * Kumanica * Dubnica *

Janja Janja ( Cyrillic: Јања) is a town in the municipality of Bijeljina, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Janja is located in the Podrinje region of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Janja is famous for the rivers Janja and Drina. It is the only B ...

* Bistrica *

Mažići Mažići is a village in the municipality of Priboj, Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Panno ...

* Seljani

Monasteries in Montenegro

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* Dovolja * Đurđevića Tara * Dubočica

Bishops of Mileševa

* Georgije (Đokić) (1992-1994, administrator) * Vasilije (Veinović) (1994-1997) * Filaret (Mićević) (1999-2015) * Joanikije (Mićović) (2015-2017, administrator) * Atanasije (Rakita) (since 2017)

References

Sources

*
Mileševska eparhija danas („Pravoslavlje“, br. 909, 1. februar 2005.)
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