Makarije Sokolović
Saint Makarije | |
|---|---|
| Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch | |
 Makarije, ktitor of Budisavci (1568–71) | |
| Church | Serbian Orthodox Church |
| Installed | 1557 |
| Term ended | 1571 |
| Predecessor | Pavle (I) |
| Successor | Antonije |
| Orders | |
| Rank | Patriarch |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Makarije Sokolović |
| Born | Višegrad |
| Died | 1574 |
| Nationality | Serb |
| Denomination | Orthodox Christian |
| Sainthood | |
| Feast day | 30 August (Julian) 12 September (Gregorian) |
| Canonized | by Serbian Orthodox Church |
Makarije Sokolović (Serbian Cyrillic: Макарије Соколовић ; died 1574) was the Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch from 1557 to 1571. He was the first head of the restored Serbian Patriarchate of Peć, after its lapse in 1463 that resulted from the Ottoman conquest of Serbia.[1] He is variously reported to have been the brother, nephew, or first cousin of the Ottoman Grand Vizier Mehmed-paša Sokolović, who used his influence in the Ottoman Empire to reestablish the Serbian Patriarchate with its seat in Monastery of Peć.[2] Patriarch Makarije is celebrated as a saint in the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Biography[]
He was born in the 16th century, his family hailing from the Serb clan of Piva in Old Herzegovina. He was a close kinsman of Mehmed-paša Sokolović, the Ottoman Grand Vizier.
Prior to the re-establishment of the Patriarchate, the Serbs were under the jurisdiction of the Archbishopric of Ohrid. Metropolitan of Smederevo Pavle was one of many that did not recognize the current status of Serb Orthodox in the Ottoman Empire and sought to make the Serbian Church independent once again. Makarije became the first Patriarch of the renewed Serbian Patriarchate of Peć in 1557. The Ottoman Sultan gave Makarije the same rights as the Patriarch of Constantinople.
The jurisdiction of the Patriarchate was the land of the medieval Serbian state, with Bačka, Banat, Baranja, Srem, Slavonia, Bosanska Krajina, Bosna, Lika, Krbava and Dalmatia, and had more than 40 eparchies, with the newly founded Eparchy of Trebinje, Eparchy of Požega, etc.
Among renewed monasteries were Banja Monastery in Priboj, Gračanica, Studenica, the Patriarchal Monastery of Peć, and Budisavci[3]in Kosovo and Metohia. This renewal started a renaissance of the Serb culture in arts and literature.
Because of illness, he was succeeded in 1571, by his fraternal nephew Antonije Sokolović. He died in 1574.
Legacy[]
He is included in The 100 most prominent Serbs.
References[]
- ^ Вуковић 1996, p. 295-297.
- ^ Fotić 2008, p. 519-520.
- ^ "Budisavci".
Sources[]
- Ćirković, Sima (2004). The Serbs. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 9781405142915.
- Fotić, Aleksandar (2008). "Serbian Orthodox Church". Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire. New York: Infobase Publishing. pp. 519–520. ISBN 9781438110257.
- Kašić, Dušan, ed. (1965). Serbian Orthodox Church: Its past and present. 1. Belgrade: Serbian Orthodox Church.
- Pavlovich, Paul (1989). The History of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Serbian Heritage Books. ISBN 9780969133124.
- (1962). Историја Српске православне цркве (History of the Serbian Orthodox Church). књ. 1. Минхен: Искра.
- Sotirović, Vladislav B. (2011). "The Serbian Patriarchate of Peć in the Ottoman Empire: The First Phase (1557–94)". Serbian Studies: Journal of the North American Society for Serbian Studies. 25 (2): 143–169. doi:10.1353/ser.2011.0038. S2CID 143629322.
- Вуковић, Сава (1996). Српски јерарси од деветог до двадесетог века (Serbian Hierarchs from the 9th to the 20th Century). Београд: Евро.
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