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3 unusual facts about Eparchy of Zahumlje and Herzegovina


Eparchy of Zahumlje and Herzegovina

The original seat of the Diocese of Hum, as it was called in 1219, was in Ston, in the church of the Most Holy Theotokos (Пресвете Богородице).

Following the fall of Herzegovina under Turkish rule, the See was frequently moved, finally to settle in Monastery Tvrdoš near Trebinje.

Radoslav of Zahumlje

Following an earthquake in the Hum capital of Ston, the Orthodox bishop of Hum relocated to the church of St Peter and St Paul built on the Lim River near the Serbian border in the 1250s.



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