Simeon Končarević

Simeon Končarević (Serbian Cyrillic: Симеон Кончаревић; 1690–1769) was a Serbian Orthodox bishop in Venetian Dalmatia, serving from 1751 to 1757. He was born in Karin, to a priest father. He was educated in Zadar and Venice for eight years, becoming fluent in Latin and Italian. He was appointed the parish priest of Benkovac in 1720 by Stevan Ljubibratić, the Serbian Orthodox bishop of Dalmatia (1716–20) who was expelled the same year by the Venetian government. Končarević stopped Andrea Balbi, an Italian Catholic bishop, from making canonical visitation to the Serbian church in Benkovac, standing in the entrance and brandishing a sabre, in 1728. Due to this, he was imprisoned in a dungeon. After his release, he convoked an assembly of priests on 16 June 1731, the 22 participants deciding that the Serbian Orthodox priesthood did not recognize "no Latin bishops".

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