Savatije Sokolović

Savatije
Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch
Fresco depicting Savatije with the model of his endowment, the Piva Monastery.
Church	Serbian Patriarchate of Peć
See	Patriarchal Monastery of Peć
Installed	1585
Term ended	1586
Predecessor	Gerasim
Successor	Jerotej
Other posts	Metropolitan of Herzegovina (1573–1585)
Personal details
Birth name	Savatije Sokolović
Born	Prijepolje, Sanjak of Herzegovina, Ottoman Empire (now Serbia)
Died	1586
Nationality	Rum Millet (Ottoman)
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox Christian
Parents	Vukašin

Savatije Sokolović (Serbian Cyrillic: Саватије Соколовић; fl. 1573 – d. 1586), was Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch from 1585 to 1586. Before that, he served as Metropolitan of Herzegovina from 1573 to 1585. He was a member of the notable Sokolović family, being a nephew of Serbian Patriarch Makarije Sokolović (1557–71). Savatije founded the Piva Monastery in 1573.

Sokolović was born in Prijepolje, at the time part of the Sanjak of Herzegovina of the Ottoman Empire (now in Serbia). He was a son of Vukašin, the "knyaz of Rudići", and was part of the notable Sokolović family, being a fraternal nephew of Patriarch Makarije (s. 1557–71), and relative to many other archbishops, and even Ottoman statesmen.

He succeeded his relative Antonije as the Metropolitan of Herzegovina in 1573, who then became the Serbian Patriarch; the Sokolović bishops were obviously succeeding each other as metropolitan of Herzegovina, then as to the Serbian Patriarch, and finally as Serbian Patriarch. That same year, Savatije founded (as ktitor) the Piva Monastery, dedicated to the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God, located by the Piva river in the historical Piva region (the former župa of Piva, in modern-day western Montenegro). The construction workers were brothers named Gavrilo and Vukašin. Russian historian Aleksandr Fedorovich Gilferding (1831–1872) said that the monastery was the greatest and most beautiful building in all of Herzegovina.