Shaping the identity nemanjic states Interpretation of Byzantine ecclesiatical rights

Understanding Church-state relations in Serbia as an idea carried over from the Byzantine understanding of the doctrine of the relationship between the secular and ecclesiastical authorities. While the ruler carrier secular power, spiritual patriarch, the nation's indivisible and belongs to the state and the church, so that the question of relations between church and state resolved uniquely. On that basis set and relationship harmony and mutuality of church and state, as in Byzantium, and later in Serbia. Archimandrite Sava using Studenica typicon -the first constitution of the Serbian Church -managed in the best way to highlight all that contain terms: church autonomy, self statehood, independence, identity