Sava II

Saint Sava II
His Holiness the Metropolitan of Peć and Archbishop of Serbs
Sava II, Visoki Dečani
Church	Serbian Orthodox Church
Installed	1263
Term ended	1271
Predecessor	Arsenije I
Successor	Danilo I
Personal details
Birth name	Predislav
Born	1201 Ras
Died	1271
Nationality	Serbian
Denomination	Orthodox Christian
Sainthood
Canonized	by Serbian Orthodox Church

Sava II (Serbian Cyrillic: Свети Сава II; 1201–1271) was the third Archbishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church, serving from 1263 until his death in 1271. He was the middle son of King Stefan the First-Crowned of the Nemanjić dynasty and his Byzantine wife Eudokia Angelina. He had two brothers, Stefan Radoslav and Stefan Vladislav, and a sister, Komnena. Predislav took the monastic name of Sava, after his uncle, Saint Sava, the first Serbian Archbishop. The Serbian Orthodox Church celebrates him as a saint and his feast-day is on February 21.

Born as Predislav (Предислав) in c. 1198, he was the middle son of King Stefan the First-Crowned and Eudokia Angelina. He had brothers Stefan Radoslav (b. 1192), Stefan Vladislav (b. 1198), and half-brother Stefan Uroš I (b. 1223). He also had two sisters, Komnena being the only one whose name is known.

King Stefan the First-Crowned, who had become ill, took monastic vows and died in 1227.^[1] Radoslav who was the eldest son succeeded as King, crowned at Žiča by Archbishop Sava,^[1] his uncle. The younger sons, Vladislav and Uroš I, received appanages.^[1] Sava II (Predislav) was appointed bishop of Hum shortly thereafter, later serving as Archbishop of Serbia (1263-1270).^[1] The Church and state was thus dominated by the same family and the ties between the two as well as the family's role within the Church continued.^[2]

Burial of Sava II, Patriarchate of Peć.

See also

Ancestors of Sava II

16. Uroš I of Rascia               8. Zavida                       17. Anna Diogene               4. Stefan Nemanja                             2. Stefan Prvovenčani                                   5. Anastasija                             1. Predislav (Sava II)                                         12. Andronikos Angelos                       25. Theodora Komnene               6. Alexios III Angelos                             13. Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa                       3. Eudokia Angelina                                   14. Andronikos Doukas Kamateros                       7. Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamaterina

• List of heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church

References

1. Fine 1994, p. 135
2. Fine 1994, p. 136

Sources

• Fajfrić, Željko (2000) [1998], Sveta loza Stefana Nemanje, Belgrade: Tehnologije, izdavastvo, agencija Janus
• Fine, John Van Antwerp, Jr. (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

External links

• Živorad Janković. "Архиепископ Сава Други". Православље. SPC.