Ilarion Šišević ( 1219) was the

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

bishop of

Zeta Zeta (, ; uppercase Ζ, lowercase ζ; grc, ζῆτα, el, ζήτα, label= Demotic Greek, classical or ''zē̂ta''; ''zíta'') is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 7. It was derived f ...

and

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in the first half of the 13th century. He was a disciple of Archbishop Sava, and was a

hieromonk A hieromonk ( el, Ἱερομόναχος, Ieromonachos; ka, მღვდელმონაზონი, tr; Slavonic: ''Ieromonakh'', ro, Ieromonah), also called a priestmonk, is a monk who is also a priest in the Eastern Orthodox Church and E ...

Hilandar The Hilandar Monastery ( sr-cyr, Манастир Хиландар, Manastir Hilandar, , el, Μονή Χιλανδαρίου) is one of the twenty Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Mount Athos in Greece and the only Serbian monastery there. It wa ...

during Sava's trip to the

Patriarch Manuel I of Constantinople Manuel I, surnamed Karantenos/Sarantenos or Charitopoulos ( el, Μανουήλ Α΄ K/Σαραντηνός or Χαριτόπουλος), (? – May or June 1222) was Patriarch of Constantinople from December 1216 or January 1217 to 1222. He seem ...

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(1219). After the

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of the Serbian Church (15 August 1219), ''hegumen'' Metodije of Hilandar was appointed the bishop of Raška and Ilarion was appointed the bishop of Zeta; Raška and Zeta were the central regions of the Medieval Serbian state. Ilarion was thus the first bishop of Zeta. He was also the bishop of Hum, seated at the Monastery of the Holy Mother of God in

Ston Ston () is a settlement and a municipality in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County of Croatia, located at the south of isthmus of the Pelješac peninsula. History Because of its geopolitical and strategic position, Ston has had a rich history since ant ...

(now

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). In literature, he is also known as ''Ilarije'' or ''Ilarion Šišević'' (Иларион Шишeвић), based on local tradition, which claims that he was born in the Šišović village in the tribal region of Građani. In the historical-anthropological work ''Riječka nahija u Crnoj Gori'' (1911) by Andrija Jovićević, local folklore has been collected, including notes on Ilarion and his family.

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