Nicodemus Milaš

Holy Hierarch Nicodemus Milaš was bishop of Dalmatia and Istria and a great canonist of the Orthodox Church, born in 1845 and departed to the Lord in 1915.

In the years he shepherded the see of Dalmatia, then in the Austro-⁠Hungarian Empire (1890-1912), he cared zealously for the spiritual enlightenment of the Serbian population of the region and resisted Uniate influence. A graduate of the Theological Academy of Kiev, he is recognised throughout the Orthodox world as an outstanding scholar of church law. In the years of the First World War, already retired from his see, he was imprisoned for his ties with Russia and Serbia. He departed to the Lord after leaving prison.

Among his works are a treatise on Orthodox church law, an edition of the canons of the Holy Apostles and the Ecumenical Councils with commentaries, and studies on marriage between Christians and non-⁠Christians and on ordination as an impediment to marriage. His memory is kept on 21 October, in the new style.