Gregory of Serbia

Holy Hierarch Gregory of Serbia (fourteenth century) was bishop of Ras, a Serb by birth, who was probably earlier a monk at the Hilandar monastery on Athos. He is known as the copyist of the Ras Nomocanon (1305), an important collection of church law.

He was bishop of Ras between 1 September 1303 and 31 August 1304 and again in 1313. From the colophon it is known that in 1305, in the reign of King Milutin Uros, in the monastery of Pec, Gregory copied the so-⁠called Ras Nomocanon for the Athonite monastery of Hilandar. He called himself a brother of the monks of Hilandar, so it is thought that before his ordination he lived in that monastery. His name also appears on a carved silver cross given to the cathedral church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul at Ras, later moved to the Dominican monastery in Dubrovnik. The time and circumstances of his canonisation are not known.

He is commemorated on 12 September, in the Synaxis of the Serbian Hierarchs.