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When the Serbs claimed protection by Emperor Heraclius (r. 610-640), they were introduced to the Christian faith immediately by "Roman elders".[1]
This has got nothing to do with Serbs in Italy. It's clearly a cultural contact between the peoples, but not in Italy.
After an Arab raid and subsequent sieges along the coast of Dalmatia in the late 860s, Emperor Basil I (r. 867–886) put the Slavs of Dalmatia under his suzerainty. He also enrolled many of the Serbs and other Slavic tribes as auxiliaries and sent them under his admiral Niketas Ooryphas to Apulia, where they participated in the siege of Arab-held Bari in 871, alongside western emperor Louis II.[2][3]
This also shows no actual relevance to Serbs in Italy - there's no mention of e.g. those people involved in the siege remaining in Italy.
^De Administrando Imperio, ch. 32 [Of the Serbs and of the country they now dwell in.]: "the emperor brought elders from Rome and baptized them and taught them fairly to perform the works of piety and expounded to them the faith of the Christians."
^De Administrando Imperio, ch. 29 [Of Dalmatia and of the adjacent nations in it.]: "The king and the pope acceded to the emperor's request, and both of them came with a large force and joined up with the army sent by the emperor and with the Croat and Serb and Zachlumian chiefs and the Terbouniotes and Kanalites and the men of Ragusa and all the cities of Dalmatia (for all these were present by imperial mandate); and they crossed over into Lombardy, and laid siege to the city of Bari and took it."
