Draft:Visarion I, Metropolitan of Zeta
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Visarion I, Metropolitan of Zeta (Serbian Cyrillic: Висарион I, митрополит зетски) served as a Serbian Orthodox hierarch of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral from 1484 to 1491[1] He was succeeded by Pahomije.
Metropolitan Visarion was the first metropolitan of Zeta to hold the see in the newly-built Cetinje Monastery of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. During the time of Metropolitan Visarion, the monastery became significant not only as the new church seat of the Zeta Metropolis but also as a cultural center of Zeta (which began to be called Montenegro), where the first printing house not only among the Serbs but also among the South Slavs would operate.
Metropolitan Visarion is mentioned in the founding charter of the Cetinje Monastery dated 4 January 1485 – the Chrysovulja of the pious gentleman Ivan Crnojević, ruler of the Zeta land. In this regard, the charter states the following:
“And we have also decided with the most holy fathers, hierarchs, with the most holy Metropolitan of Zeta, Kyr (lord or master) Visarion, and with the Bishop Kyr Vavila, and with the entire brotherhood: that here in the monastery of the Most Pure, there may be communities, whether they be small or large, and that no brother is willing to appropriate anything for himself or keep in his cell except what is common, as the law requires wherever there are communities at monasteries. Whoever dares to destroy the community and become a transgressor of the laws of the community by his own will, may the Mother of God crush him in both soul and body! And may he receive penance and expulsion from the monastery as a transgressor and a wicked man of God.”
Historian Ljubomir Stojanović, in his voluminous work “Old Serbian Records and Inscriptions”, included a record from a manuscript in the Turin University Library that mentions Bishop Visarion as the Metropolitan of Zeta during the time of “master Ivan Duke Crnojević”, and along with him his vicar bishop, and later his successor, Vavila. Along with the name of Metropolitan Visarion, the “throne of the Metropolis of Cetinje, as it is the Metropolis of Zeta” is mentioned.
Archimandrite Nićifor Dučić, in his treatise “The Episcopates of Zeta and Dabar”, states that Metropolitan Visarion is mentioned in 1482 and 1485. Dušan D. Vuksan, in the appendix to the “Catalog of Zeta Bishops and Metropolitans of Montenegro and the Littoral”, states that Metropolitan Visarion is mentioned in 1482, 1484, and 1485. The same data is also given by Aleksandar Stamatović (“Brief History of the Metropolis”).
Bishop of Šumadija Sava Vuković's Srpski jerarsi (“Serbian Hierarchs”) states that Vissarion was Metropolitan of Zeta from 1484 to 1494. However, in the catalogue of bishops and metropolitans, Dušan D. Vuksan lists Pachomius I as the first metropolitan after Visarion I with the year of office 1491, which would mean that Visarion I was Metropolitan of Cetinje from 1484 to 1491.
References
[edit]- ^ Sava (Bishop of Šumadija.) (1996). Srpski jerarsi od devetog do dvadesetog veka (in Serbian). Evro.