Nikodim (Milash), Bishop of Dalmatia

Nikodim (Milash), Bishop of Dalmatia. Orthodox Church Law. Compiled from general church-legal sources and particular laws in force in the autocephalous churches. — St. Petersburg: Publication of V. V. Komarov, 1897. — 708 p.

The work is a systematic exposition of church law, based on general church-legal sources and particular laws in force in the autocephalous churches. The author, Bishop Nikodim of Dalmatia, was an outstanding Serbian canonist who received his education at the Kiev Theological Academy.

The publication is a fundamental primary source on church law. The author, who received the degree of Master of Theology at the Kiev Theological Academy, created a work that is still considered unsurpassed in the accuracy and completeness of its coverage of church-legal material in Orthodox canonical literature. For his works he was awarded honorary membership in the St. Petersburg, Moscow and Kiev theological academies.

Nikodim (in the world Nikola Milash, 1845–1915) was Bishop of Dalmatia and Istria, a Serbian canonist and church historian. He graduated from the Kiev Theological Academy (1871), and in 1890 was consecrated Bishop of Dalmatia and Istria. He was the author of numerous works on church law, including "Orthodox Church Law" (1890), translated into Russian, German, Modern Greek and Bulgarian. In 2025 he was numbered among the universally venerated saints of the Serbian Orthodox Church.