Teofan I

Teofan I, Serbian Patriarch (also spelled Theophanes) was the archbishop of the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć and the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1435 to 1446.^[1]He was succeeded by Nikodim II.

On the occasion of the enthronement of Patriarch Dimitrije in Peć, Stevan Dimitrijević published a list of Serbian archbishops and patriarchs in the Monument, printed on that occasion. Behind Patriarch Nikon (1419-1435), Dimitrijević mentioned Patriarch Teofan as his successor.

There are historians who do not mention Teofan (Theophanes) in the list of Serbian patriarchs or mention Patriarch Teodosije after Patriarch Nikon, as is the case in the Monument from the time of despot Đurađ Branković. In that case, it is obviously that Patriarch Teofan, who was mistakenly named "Teodosije".

Patriarch Teofan should not be confused with Metropolitan Teofan of Belgrade, who in 1509 and onward, pleaded with Grand Prince Vasili III of Moscow for financial assistance to rebuild Serbian monasteries that were razed to the ground by the invading Turks.^[2]

At the time of patriarch Teofan I the Serbian nation and the Serbian Orthodox Church from the Council of Florence came under many vailed threats but the resolve of Đurađ Branković kept pretty much everything in check until the conquest of Smederevo by the Ottomans.

Literature[]

• Народна енциклопедија (National Encyclopedia, 1927)
• Вуковић, Сава (Sava Vuković, 1996). Српски јерарси од деветог до двадесетог века (Serbian Hierarchs from the Ninth- to the Twentieth-century) Евро, Унирекс, Каленић (Publishers: Evro, Unireks, Kalenić).

See also[]

• List of heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church

References[]

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