Ktetor
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Ktetor or ktitor, meaning 'founder', is a title given in the Middle Ages in the Byzantine sphere to the provider of funds for construction or reconstruction of an Eastern Orthodox church or monastery,
Fresco of Serbian king Stefan Dečanski at Visoki Dečani monastery, in Kosovo, holding a small monastery in his hands; this signifies that he is the ktetor of the monastery.
Saint Sava
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Saint Sava, known as the Enlightener or the Illuminator, was a Serbian prince and Eastern Orthodox monk who became the first Archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church. He was also a writer, diplo
Ktetor
…The Serbian Nemanjić dynasty were ktetors to many monasteries and churches, including the "Medieval Monuments in Kosovo" inscribed as World Heritage. Saint Sava, Serbian Archbishop (1219–35), founded Hilandar and reconstructed Karakallou, Xeropotamou, and Philotheou at Mount Athos. Andronikos II Palaiologos…
Fresco depicting Saint Sava at the Patriarchate of Peć Monastery, Serbia
A fresco of Saint Sava, renouncing a return to his royal home, 1907, Stevan Todorović
Mosaic of St. Sava on the western wall, outside, of the Church of the Saint Simeon in Novi Beograd
Sava reconciling his quarreling brothers, Paja Jovanović (1901)