Order of the Holy King Constantine

It was established by the decision of the Holy Bishops' Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church on April 16/29, 2010 , in commemoration of the upcoming anniversary celebrations in honor of the 1700th anniversary of the signing of the Edict of Milan 313 by the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Emperor Constantine the Great , for rewarding for services to the Serbian Orthodox Church. The award decision is made by the Holy Synod of Bishops and approved by the Patriarch of Serbia .

The Order recognizes outstanding merits in the spiritual, educational and humanitarian fields, active love for the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Serbian people , as well as for their contribution to freedom of religion and human rights ^[1] . The order has one degree and can be awarded to both clergy and secular persons, as well as collectives and organizations.

The Order of the Holy King Constantine is a gilded metal sign in the form of Chrysma , that is, a monogram of the name of Christ , which consists of two initial Greek letters of the name ( Greek ΧΡΙΣΤΌΣ ) - Χ (chi) and Ρ (po), crossed among themselves. Along the edges of the monogram are small Greek letters α and ω .

The badge of the order is worn on a neck moire ribbon of white color with gold embroidery on the edges. The width of the tape is 2.9 centimeters.

Russian Knights of the Order

• 2013 - Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill ^[2]
• 2013 - Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk - Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate ^[2]
• 2013 - Bishop of Solnechnogorsk Sergiy - Head of the Administrative Secretariat of the Moscow Patriarchate ^[2]
• 2013 - Sergey A. Mankov - historian, genealogy ^[3]
• 2013 - Alexander Vasilievich Chepurin - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Serbia.
• 2014 - Leonid Petrovich Reshetnikov - Lieutenant General, Director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies ^[4]
• 2014 - Igor Nikolaevich Slyunyaev - Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation ^[5]

Other Knights of the Order

• 2013 - Tomislav Nikolic - President of Serbia ^[6]
• 2013 - Heir Alexander II Karageorgievich - Head of the Serbian Royal House.
• 2013 - Ivica Dacic - Prime Minister of Serbia
• 2013 - Milorad Dodik - President of the Republika Srpska
• 2013 - Filip Vujanovic - President of Montenegro
• 2013 - Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
• 2013 - Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilus III
• 2013 - Archbishop of Cyprus Chrysostomos II - Primate of the Cypriot Orthodox Church.
• 2013 - Archbishop of Athens Jerome II - Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church.
• 2013 - Archbishop of Tirana Anastasius - Primate of the Albanian Orthodox Church.
• 2013 - Metropolitan of Warsaw and All Poland Sawa - Primate of the Polish Orthodox Church.
• 2013 - Archbishop of Olomouc-Brno Simeon - Locum Tenens of the Metropolitan throne of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia.
• 2013 - Viktor Yuryevich Nedopas - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Republic of Serbia ^[7]
• 2013 - Center for the Study of Orthodox Monarchism ( Belgrade , Serbia ) ^[8]
• 2015 - Metropolitan of Naples and Stavropol Barnabas - Bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church ^[9]
• 2016 - Miroslav Simovic - Lieutenant General, Commander of the Army of the Republic of Serbia ^[10]
• 2018 - Marinos Ritsudis - junior lieutenant of the Greek Navy, who refused to participate in the NATO forces attack on Serbia in April 1999 and for failure to execute an order sentenced to two and a half years probation ^[11]
• 2019 - Interparliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy ^[12]
• 2019 - Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine Onufry - Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). ^[13]

In the Nis diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church there is its own Order of the Holy King Constantine, which has the status of a diocesan award, the sign of which is made in a different design. ^[14]