Nikanor Ružičić
Nikanor Ružičić (Secular name: Nikola Ružičić ; Serbian Cyrillic: Никанор Ружичић; also known in Imperial Russia as Nikolai Grigorievich Ružičič; Svileuva, Principality of Serbia, 15 April 1843 — Belgrade, Kingdom of Serbia, 16 October 1916) was a Serbian church historian, and the bishop of Žiča from 1886 to 1889 and Niš from 1898 until 1911. He was one of the 19th-century intellectuals who corresponded with Franjo Rački and others raising many questions of the time but nothing of consequence was ever realized. He is the author of a seminal work entitled Istorija srpske crkve (History of the Serbian Church) in two volumes, published in Zagreb in 1894 From the 19th century until the First World War several histories of the Serbian Orthodox Church—including works by Nikola Begović, Nićifor Dučić, Mihailo Jovanović, Jevsevije Popović and Mojsije Stojkov—were written, although none were adequate enough to explain the difference between the Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism so succinctly as Ružičić's seminal work (History of the Serbian Church). Biography Nikola was born on 15 April 1843 in Svileuva to Grigory, a parish priest, and Elena Ružičić, whose grandfather was Karađorđe's voivode Luka Lazarević. He studied at a rural primary school, graduated from Gymnasium in Šabac,