Hieromonk Pahomije (; 1496âÂÂ1544) was a Serbian Orthodox hieromonk and one of the first printers of books in the Serbian language. He learned his printing skills from Hieromonk Makarije at the Crnojeviàprinting house in the period of 1494âÂÂ96. In 1518 he accepted the invitation of Boà ¾idar Vukoviàand went to Venice where he organized printing at the Vukoviàprinting house in the period of 1519/1520âÂÂ21.
The first printing house Pahomije worked at was the Crnojeviàprinting house in Obod, Rijeka CrnojeviÃÂa, in the period of 1494âÂÂ96. There he learned printing skills from hieromonk Makarije and practicised it until ÃÂuraàCrnojeviàfled Zeta and went to Venice in 1496. Pahomije was one of eight printers who worked at the Crnojeviàprinting house.
In 1518 Boà ¾idar Vukoviàinvited Pahomije to come to Venice and organize the printing at the printing press of VukoviÃÂ. Pahomije accepted this invitation and went to Venice. Pahomije was head of the organization of work at the printing house, and also worked as an editor and corrector there. The printing house was operational in two periods, 1519/1520âÂÂ21 and 1536âÂÂ40. During the first period Pahomije printed three books, a book of hours (ÃÂaslovac, or Psaltir) in 1519, Liturgijar and Molitvenik.
In March 1520 he wrote on the cover of one of the books he printed that he was "from the islands of the Diocletian Lake" . In a 1544 document he wrote reka instead of rijeka (Rijeka CrnojeviÃÂa), concluding that he hailed from an Ekavian accent region (somewhere in modern Serbia), however, in some later works this assumption was rejected.