Ilarion (medieval Serbian bishop)
Ilarion (fl. 1219) was the Serbian Orthodox bishop of Zeta and Hum in the first half of the 13th century. He was a disciple of Archbishop Sava, and was a hieromonk of Hilandar[1] during Sava's trip to the Patriarch Manuel I of Constantinople in Nicaea (1219). After the autocephaly 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 Serbia.[1] He was also the bishop of Hum, seated at the Monastery of the Holy Mother of God in Ston (now Croatia).[2]
References
- ^ a b Slavko Todorovich (1989). The Chilandarians: Serbian Monks on the Greek Mountain. East European Monographs. pp. 49–52. ISBN 978-0-88033-161-6.
- ^ Mileusnić 2000, p. 41.