Biserici naţionale ortodoxe în secolele XI-XV – Biserica rusă şi Biserica sârbă
National Orthodox Churches in the XI-XV centuries – The Russian Church and the Serbian Church

Summary/Abstract: The entire Russian Orthodox Church was, at first, under the canonical obedience of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The metropolis moved from Kiev in 1326 to Moscow after the devastation of Kiev during the Tartar invasions. In 1439, at the Council of Florence, the Russian Orthodox Church remained independent of the Rome, and in 1448, the Russians became independent of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. In 1589 the Metropolitan of Moscow became the first patriarch of Moscow and of all Russians, thus making the Russian Orthodox Church autocephalous. Within the Serbian Church, one of the main personalities was that of Saint Sava. In 1219 he drafted the first constitution in Serbia - the Nomocanon of Saint Sava. It was a compilation of civil rights, the aim being to create a codified legal system in the small Serbian kingdom and to regulate the governance of the Serbian Church. But his great achievement was the establishment of an autocephalous (independent) Serbian Church as the national church of Serbia in 1217.

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