Pajsije
| Serbian Patriarch Pajsije I Српски патријарх Пајсије I |
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| Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch | |
| Church | Serbian Orthodox Church |
| Metropolis | Serbian Patriarchate of Peć |
| See | Patriarchal Monastery of Peć |
| Installed | 1614 |
| Term ended | 1647 |
| Predecessor | Jovan |
| Successor | Gavrilo I |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Rum Millet (Ottoman) |
| Denomination | Eastern Orthodox Christian |
| Occupation | Spiritual leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church |
Pajsije Janjevac ("Pajsije the Janjevan" or "Paisus I of Peć", Serbian Cyrillic: Пајсије Јањевац; Janjevo, 1542 – Peć, 2 November 1647), or Pajsije I, was the Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch from 1614 to 1647, seated at the Monastery of Peć. He was also a writer, poet, educator, and diplomat.
The greatest accomplishment of Serbian literature and theology happened under Patriarch Pajsije who inspired the revival of hagiographical literature and entered into theological debates with Pope Gregory XV and particularly with Pope Urban VIII concerning the question of the procession of the Holy Spirit. He patronized art on a grand scale. He funded works by woodcarvers of iconostasis and icon painters during his entire reign as patriarch from 1614 to 1648. His travels took him to Moscow in 1622, Constantinople in 1641, and Jerusalem in 1646.
He was born in Janjevo, at the time part of the Ottoman Empire (now Kosovo), the son of a clergyman, Dimitrije. He was educated in his birth town where the wealthy folks of Janjevo had their own school which he attended regularly and continued his education at the seminary of Gračanica monastery. He was a pupil of Jovan Kantul.
Pajsije was elected Metropolitan of Novo Brdo and Lipljan in 1612. He was consecrated by Patriarch Jovan II Kantul and the Metropolitans of Sentence Synod on July 15, 1612. Today, there still exists one document in which he signed his name as "Humble Pajsije, Metropolitan of Novo Brdo." When Patriarch Jovan left for Constantinople in 1614, he appointed Pajsije as locum tenens. Patriarch Jovan was accused by the sultan's court for collaborating with the Holy Roman Empire and sentenced to death. This occurred four years prior to the Thirty Years' War.
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