As part of the activities marking the 850th anniversary of the birth of Rastko Nemanjić—Saint Sava—the Public Institution Centre for Socio-Political Research of the Republika Srpska organized, on 2 February 2026, the promotion of a new facsimile edition of Saint Sava’s Nomocanon (Zakonopravilo), the Tvrdoš–Savin transcript, published by the Foundation “Knez Miroslav Humski” from Trebinje.

One of Saint Sava’s enduring contributions to the foundations of the Serbian Church, statehood and tradition is the Nomocanon, a compendium of secular and ecclesiastical legislation through which the Serbian people integrated, within its very core, a Christian understanding of the Church, the state and society.

Sava Nemanjić adapted and compiled the Nomocanon and introduced it into the Serbian Church Slavonic language, as well as into the Serbian state apparatus, institutional framework and ecclesiastical context. With the introduction of written law, the Serbian people and state entered the currents of Greco-Roman legal civilization—not as a peripheral object of assimilation, but as an active actor and bearer of an indigenous form of original normative order.

The promotion was opened with an appropriate address by the Minister of Scientific and Technological Development and Higher Education, Mr. Draga Mastilović.

The following intellectuals took part in the promotion:

Prof. Dr. Đorđe Bubalo, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade,
Prof. Dr. Zoran Devrnja, Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Belgrade,
Dušan Pavlović, Centre for Socio-Political Research of the Republika Srpska,
Dejan Škrivan, Endowment “Knez Miroslav Humski” from Trebinje.

The promotion was moderated by Predrag Lozo, MA.