Nikodim II, Serbian Patriarch

Nikodim II
Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch
Church	Serbian Patriarchate of Peć
See	Patriarchal Monastery of Peć
Installed	1445
Term ended	1455
Predecessor	Teofan I
Successor	Arsenije II
Personal details
Nationality	Serbian
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox Church
Occupation	Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church

Nikodim II (Serbian Cyrillic: Никодим II) was the Serbian Patriarch in the period of 1445–1455.

As the hegumen of the Studenica monastery, Nikodim was appointed the Metropolitan of Raška some time prior to 1439. Serbian ruler, despot Đurađ Branković strongly opposed Uniatism and did not send his delegates to the Council of Florence in 1439, when the short lived "Union" between the Byzantine Emperor and the Pope was concluded. That year, much of the Serbian Despotate, including capital city of Smederevo fell for the first time to the Ottomans, but after a couple of years of occupation restored freedom and independence in 1444. Soon after that, metropolitan Nicodim was chosen for the Serbian Patriarch in 1445. He chirotonized the Moldavian metropolitan Teoktist, instead of the old Joakim who supported Uniatism. In 1452, Nikodim II gifted the manuscript book Margarit of John Chrysostom, which is today held in the Monastery of the Holy Trinity of Pljevlja. Nikodim II was the penultimate Serbian Patriarch before the fall of the Serbian Despotate under the Ottomans, who conquered Christian Constantinople in 1453.

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