The medieval Eparchy of Dabar was founded in 1219 by the first Serbian archbishop,
Saint Sava. The seat of bishops of Dabar was in the
Banja Monastery near
Priboj,
Serbia. Eparchy of Dabar had jurisdiction over the region of lower
Lim and middle
Drina on the borders with
medieval Bosnia. In 1557,
Serbian Patriarchate of Peć was restored and the Eparchy of Dabar and Bosnia was returned to its jurisdiction, with its bishops of holding the honorary title of metropolitan. In 1766, when the autocephalous Serbian Patriarchate of Peć was abolished, Eparchy of Dabar and Bosnia and all other Serbian eparchies under
Ottoman rule came under the jurisdiction of
Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Bishop of Dabar and Bosnia kept his honorary title of metropolitan, as was also the custom in the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The seat of metropolitan was in Sarajevo. Since the
1878 campaign, Bosnia and Herzegovina was
ruled by Austria-Hungary, but under the Convention of 1880 all Eastern Orthodox eparchies remained under ecclesiastical jurisdiction of
Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. After
World War I and the creation of the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a council of Eastern Orthodox bishops in Bosnia and Herzegovina unanimously decided to unite with other Serbian ecclesiastical provinces to form the unified
Serbian Orthodox Church, a process completed in 1920. ==List of bishops==