Nikodim II ( sr-cyr, Никодим II) was the

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in the period of 1445–1455. As the ''

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'' of the Studenica monastery, Nikodim was appointed the Metropolitan of Raška sometime prior to 1439. Serbian ruler, despot

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strongly opposed

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and did not send his delegates to the

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in 1439, when the short-lived "Union" between the Byzantine Emperor and the Pope was concluded. That year, much of the

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, including the capital city of

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fell for the first time to the Ottomans, but after a couple of years of occupation restored freedom and independence in 1444. Soon after that, metropolitan Nicodim was chosen for the Serbian Patriarch in 1445. He chirotonized the Moldavian metropolitan Teoktist, instead of the old Joakim who supported Uniatism. In 1452, Nikodim II gifted the manuscript book ''Margarit'' of

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, which is today held in the Monastery of the Holy Trinity of Pljevlja. Nikodim II was the penultimate Serbian Patriarch before the fall of the Serbian Despotate under the Ottomans, who conquered Christian Constantinople in 1453.

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* * * {{authority control 15th-century Serbian people Patriarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church People from the Serbian Despotate 15th-century Eastern Orthodox archbishops Medieval Serbian Orthodox bishops 15th-century deaths Year of birth unknown

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