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Saint Jevstatije I Јевстатије I
Serbian Archbishop
Church	Serbian Orthodox Church
See	Metropolitanate of Peć
Installed	1279
Term ended	1286
Predecessor	Joanikije I
Successor	Jakov I
Personal details
Born	Budimlje parish
Died	January 4, 1286
Buried	Žiča (1186–1190), Peć
Nationality	Serb
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox Christian
Sainthood
Feast day	January 4 (January 17, Gregorian)
Canonized	by Serbian Orthodox Church
Shrines	Patriarchate of Peć

Jevstatije I (Serbian: Јевстатије I) was the sixth Serbian Archbishop, holding the office from 1279 to 1286. He was born in the Budimlje parish, near Berane in Zeta. He took his monastics vows in Zeta, then left for the Hilandar monastery to study and meditate and, where he later became the hegumen (abbot), succeeding Joanikije, holding the office 1162–65. He left the monastery and became the Bishop of Zeta, and later the Serbian Archbishop in 1279, succeeding Joanikije I. He died on 4 January 1286. His relics were buried in the Monastery of Peć in 1289-1290, after being transferred from the ruined Žiča monastery. The Serbian Orthodox Church commemorates him on 4 January according to the Julian calendar, or 17 January according to the Gregorian calendar.

During his lifetime, Archbishop Jevstatije was considered a true authority of the Serbian Orthodox Church - he went through all the main stages of monastic life. He gained rich experience of asceticism, but also of life in the monastic community. He traveled far and wide to sacred places, was the head of the most important Serbian monastery, Hilandar, then the head of the monastery of "Saint Archangel Michael" at Prevlaka, and then the bishop of an important Serbian diocese in the western Serbian region. During his lifetime, he made extraordinary efforts to preserve Orthodoxy in the Archbishopric, especially taking care of the works in the church of the "Ascension of Our Lord" in Žiča, where Jevstatije's body was laid down after he died. The time of the final formation of Jevstatije’s cult in the form of the hymnographic works devoted to him was the time of significant changes in the spiritual culture of the Serbian people. Both the prose and poetic works dedicated to the worship of Saint Archbishop Jevstatije were created by the same author, Archbishop Danilo II of Peć. This gifted monk, а patient church chief and а wise counselor of the Serbian rulers, skillfully shaped the image of Saint Archbishop Jevstatije, fulfilling the high spiritual and liturgical requirements of the time. With his hagiographic compositions collected in the famous Monograph, Danilo made decisive steps in shaping the cults of certain Serbian rulers, and then he added to the "Serbian Saints Council" the cults of the Church's "generals" Arsenije, Jevstatije and Joanikije (for the former two he composed both the biography and the service). By both his hagiographic and hymnographic literary work, he followed the main tendencies of his time and literally and liturgically shaped one of the central ideas in presenting the holy archipriests as worthy heirs to the throne of Saint Sava.

Sources

• ЦРКВЕНЕ СТУДИЈЕ 16-2 Центар за Црквене студије Ниш (Niš), 2019

References

1. Dušan T. Bataković (2005). Histoire du peuple serbe. L'AGE D'HOMME. pp. 36–. ISBN 978-2-8251-1958-7.
2. Jakov Sirotković; Ivo Cecić; Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod (1990). Enciklopedija Jugoslavije. Vol. 6. Jugoslavenski leksikografski zavod. p. 46. ISBN 978-86-7053-024-9.
3. Upadhya, Om Datt (1994). The Art of Ajanta and Sopoćani: A Comparative Study : An Enquiry in Prāṇa Aesthetics. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. ISBN 9788120809901.
4. Dimitrije Bogdanović; Vojislav J. Đurić; Dejan Medaković; Miodrag Đorđević (1997). Chilandar. Monastery of Chilandar. p. 42. ISBN 9788674131053.
5. name="Ljubinković1975">Radivoje Ljubinković (1975). The Church of the Apostles in the Patriarchate of Peć. Jugoslavija. p. viii.
6. Убипарип, Миланка (2019). "The Himnographic Character of the Jevstaty I, the Archbishop of the Serbs". Church Studies. 2 (16): 635–645.  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 3.0 license.

Sources

• Bataković, Dušan T., ed. (2005). Histoire du peuple serbe. Lausanne: L’Age d’Homme. ISBN 9782825119587.

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