Arsenije II ( sr-cyr, Арсеније II) was Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch from 1457 to 1463. Arsenije was the primate of the

Serbian Patriarchate of Peć Serbian Patriarchate of Peć (, ''Srpska patrijaršija u Peći''), or simply Peć Patriarchate (, ''Pećka patrijaršija''), was an autocephaly, autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate that existed from 1346 to 1463, and then again from 155 ...

and the last known Serbian Patriarch of the medieval era. During his tenure, the Ottoman Turks conquered the Serbian capital city of

Smederevo Smederevo ( sr-Cyrl, Смедерево, ) is a list of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the Podunavlje District in eastern Serbia. It is situated on the right bank of the Danube, about downstream of the Serbian capital, ...

in 1459, destroying the Serbian Despotate. After his death in 1463, a new patriarch was not elected and the

entered a period of prolonged

sede vacante In the Catholic Church, ''sede vacante'' is the state during which a diocese or archdiocese is without a prelate installed in office, with the prelate's office being the cathedral. The term is used frequently in reference to a papal interre ...

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* * * * , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Arsenije II Year of birth missing 1463 deaths Patriarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church 15th-century Serbian people

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