Nikon

Saint Nikon, Patriarch of Peć, was the ninth Patriarch of the Serbian Church, seated at Peć, between 1419 or 1420 and 1435. He led the Church in the time of Despot Stefan Lazarević and afterwards in that of Đurađ Branković. In the spring of 1426, at the state assembly of Srebrenica, where Despot Stefan chose Đurađ as his successor, Patriarch Nikon was present.

The last mention of him is from 1435, in a note in a Triodion manuscript copied by Deacon Arsenije; in that year Nikon reposed in the Lord. The earliest mention of him, from 1419, is in the Praise of Prince Lazar by Antonije Rafail, and in 1424 he himself commissioned a eulogy.

The list of Serbian saints counts him among the venerable fathers and commemorates him on 30 August in the old style, which is 12 September in the new, on the same day as the other glorified Serbian patriarchs.