Moses of Hilandar

Moses of Hilandar, archimandrite and abbot, was born on 10 February 1923 at Kamenica near Valjevo in Serbia, with the secular name Stanislav Zarkovic. At sixteen he became a novice at the Serbian monastery of Zica near Kraljevo, at the time when Nikolaj Velimirovic was abbot there. During the Second World War he went to Hilandar Monastery on the Holy Mountain. He was tonsured a monk in 1947 and a hieromonk in 1949.

For many years he was superior and representative of the monastery in the Holy Community of the Mountain. He was elected abbot on 22 November 1992. During his abbacy Hilandar, the chief spiritual centre of the Serbs from the twelfth century to today, celebrated in 1998 eight hundred years since its founding. He reposed in the Lord on 8/21 March 2010, aged eighty-⁠seven, after forty-⁠four years of monastic life at Hilandar. He is venerated by the faithful, without synodal canonization.