Nikodim I of Peć and Nikodim of Hilandar ( sr, Никодим I Пећки) was a monk-scribe at Hilandar before becoming the 10th

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from 1316 to 1324, he died in the year 1325. He is a

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ian saint and the

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celebrates his feast day on May 11/24. Nikodim is the author of ''Rodoslov: srpskih kraljeva i vladika'' (The Lives of Serbian Kings and Bishops).

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In 1314, heir apparent Stefan Uroš III was exiled to

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya ( Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis ( ...

after quarrels with his father, king Stefan Milutin. In 1317, Uroš III asked Nikodim to intervene between him and his father. Nikodim's autobiographical note was inscribed in a manuscript entitled "A Visit to Constantinople" in the year 1318 and 1319. In 1320, Milutin allowed Uroš III to return upon the persuasion of Nikodim. Stefan Konstantin, Uroš's half-brother and heir to the throne, was crowned king upon the death of Milutin in 1321. Civil war erupted when Konstantin refused to submit to Uroš III, who then invaded Zeta, and in the ensuing battle, Konstantin was killed. After the victory, on January 6, 1322, Nikodim crowned Uroš ''King'' and Dušan ''Young King''. While he was the Abbot of his alma mater Hilandar, Nikodim requested that a certain protos (monk-priests) of Mt. Athos by the name of Theophanes issues an edict (gramma) wherein he grants to the monks of the Kelion of

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 ...

in Karyes, Mount Athos, a piece of land and an abandoned monastery. With the statement of the month, indiction, year, and the signatures of the Protos and the witnesses. Although the language is coarse and abounds in solecisms and "barbarisms", making it difficult to read, it was copied in skilled handwriting. He co-founded 14th century

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Vratna monastery alongside Serbian king Stefan Milutin (1282–1321) of the Nemanjić dynasty.

(1246-1328), one of the most important Serbian writers in the Middle Ages * Elder Grigorije (fl. 1310-1355), builder of Saint Archangels Monastery * Antonije Bagaš (fl. 1356-1366), bought and restored the Agiou Pavlou monastery * Lazar the Hilandarian (fl. 1404), the first known Serbian and Russian watchmaker * Pachomius the Serb (fl. 1440s-1484), hagiographer of the Russian Church * Miroslav Gospel * Gabriel the Hilandarian * Constantine of Kostenets * Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus' * Gregory Tsamblak * Isaija the Monk *

Grigorije of Gornjak Grigorije of Gornjak ( sr, Григорије Горњачки, Григорије из Горњака; 1375–1379), also known as Grigorije the Younger () and Grigorije the Silent (), was Serbian Orthodox monk who was canonized as saint. He stud ...

* Rajčin Sudić *

Jakov of Serres Jakov of Serres ( sr, Јаков Серски; 1300–1365) was a medieval Serbian writer, scholar, translator, and hierarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, one of the most important men of letters working in the 14th century. Biography Evidence ...

Romylos of Vidin Romylos of Vidin also known as Romylos of Ravanica or Romylus the Athonite (''Romil Svetogorac'', ''Romil Svetogorski''); ( bg, Ромил Бдински; sr, Ромил Раванички) was a 14th-century Bulgarian cleric, a disciple of Gre ...

Atanasije (scribe) Atanasije and Atanasije the Serb ( sr-cyr, Атанасије; 1200–1265), a disciple of Saint Sava, was a Serbian monk-scribe who lived and worked in Serbia in the Middle Ages. In the 13th century, it was common for monk-scribes not to speak or ...

* Domentijan

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