Nicholas I of Ohrid

Nicholas I or Nikolaj I was the Archbishop of Ohrid in 1346.

On Easter Day, 16 April 1346, the Serbian King Stefan Dušan convoked a huge assembly at Skopje, attended by the Serbian Archbishop Joanikije II, Nikolaj I, the Bulgarian Patriarch Simeon and various religious leaders of Mount Athos.^[1] The autocephalous Serbian Archbishopric was raised to the status of a Patriarchate.^[2] The new Patriarch Joanikije II now solemnly crowned Dušan as "Emperor and autocrat of Serbs and Romans (Greeks)".^[2]

References

1. Temperley Harold William Vazeille (2009), History of Serbia, p. 72. ISBN 1-113-20142-8
2. Fine 1994, p. 309

• Fine, John Van Antwerp (1994). The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-08260-5.