Simeon Končarević

Simeon Končarević (; about 1690 – 26 August 1769) was a Serbian Orthodox bishop in Venetian Dalmatia, serving from 1751 to 1757, before emigrating from Dalmatia to Imperial Russia. Končarević is presumed to be the author of a lost chronicle that was allegedly preserved and used in the work Orthodox Dalmatia by Nikodim Milaš.

Biography Simeon was born in Gornji Karin near Obrovac, Croatia. He was educated in Zadar, and Venice.

He was appointed the parish priest of Benkovac in 1720 by Stevan Ljubibratić, the Serbian Orthodox bishop of Dalmatia (1716–20). In Venetian Dalmatia, the Serbian clergy were forced to recognize the local Catholic bishop as their superiors. After he led resistance to the canonical campaign of the Italian Catholic Bishop of Nin, Ivan Andrija Balbi, Končarević was briefly imprisoned in 1728.

In 1897, Nikodim Milaš announced that he found Končarević's chronicle, that it was given to him in Vienna by a Russian ambassador and that he returned it after making a transcript, giving it the provisional title "Chronicle of civil and church events". Mile Bogović noted that nobody saw it except Milaš and that it "seems like it never existed", while Stjepan Antoljak presumed it is not lost and needs to be found in the Russian State Library.