Metropolitanate of Zagreb and Ljubljana
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Metropolitanate of Zagreb and Ljubljana | |
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Eastern Orthodox | |
Sui iuris church | Serbian Orthodox Church |
Established | 1557 |
Cathedral | Cathedral of Holy Transfiguration, Zagreb |
Language | Church Slavonic Serbian |
Current leadership | |
Bishop | Vacant since Feb 2021 Administrated by Kirilo |
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Metropolitanate of Zagreb and Ljubljana | |
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The Metropolitanate of Zagreb and Ljubljana (
History
During the Middle Ages,
In the first half of the 16th century,
In addition to Marča Monastery, the other spiritual center of Orthodox Serbs in the area was and still is Lepavina Monastery. Abbot Kondrat of Lepavina was killed in 1716, defending the purity of the Orthodox faith. He was killed by those Serbs who had become Catholics. In 1734 the headquarters moved to a monastery at Lepavina and the diocese was called "Eparchy of Lepavina". Serbian Orthodox bishop Simeon Filipović of Lepavina (1734-1743) also had residence in Sjeverin. After his death and several years of administration, the Eparchy of Lepavina was abolished, and in 1750 its territory came under the jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox bishops of Kostajnica. In 1771, the region came under the jurisdiction of the Orthodox bishops of Pakrac, and that remained until 1931.[citation needed]
20th century
Soon after the creation of the
The first Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan of Zagreb was Dositej Vasić, a learned theologian and man of broad vision and understanding in relations with other nations and religions. In spite of that, after the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia in World War II and the creation of the Independent State of Croatia (1941), he was arrested and tortured. As a consequence, he died in 1945, exiled from his eparchy.[5]
After World War II, the Zagreb metropolitanate and other dioceses in the territory of Croatia were administered by auxiliary (vicarian) bishop Arsenije Bradvarević. He was succeeded by Damascus Grdanički, previously Bishop of Banat, and after his death in 1969, the metropolitanate was administered by the Bishop of Slavonia, Emilian Marinović.
At the regular session of the Holy Assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1977, the spiritual guidance of this metropolitanate was entrusted to vicarian bishop
Metropolit Jovan organized the meeting of
21st century
In 2014, bishop
On 18 February 2021, Metropolitan Porfirije was elected as the new
Bishops and metropolitans
Orthodox bishops and metropolitans who had jurisdiction over the territory of present-day Metropolitanate of Zagreb and Ljubljana
Bishops of Marča
- Maksim Predojević (1630–1642)
- Gavrilo Predojević (1642–1644)
- Vasilije Predojević (1644–1648)
- Sava Stanislavić (1648–1661)
- Gavrilo Mijakić (1661–1671)
Since 1705, under jurisdiction of Orthodox Bishops of Pakrac.
Eparchy of Lepavina
- Simeon Filipović (1734–1743)
- (1743–1750) administration
Bishops of Kostajnica
- Arsenije Teofanović (1750–1753)
- Josif Stojanović (1754–1771)
After 1771, again under jurisdiction of Bishops of Pakrac.
Metropolitans
The following is a list of metropolitan bishops since 1931:
No. | Portrait | Metropolitan Bishop (born–died) |
Reign (Time served) |
Reason of withdrawal | Ref. |
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1 |
Dositej Vasić (1878–1945) |
May 1931 – January 1945 (13 years, 7 months) |
Died | ||
Administered by Titular bishop Arsenije of Moravica between January 1945 and May 1947 (2 years, 4 months) | |||||
2 |
Damaskin Grdanički (1892–1969) |
May 1947 – October 1969 (22 years, 4 months) |
Died | ||
Administered by Bishop Emilijan of Slavonia between October 1969 and May 1977 (7 years, 7 months) | |||||
3 |
Jovan Pavlović (1936–2014) |
May 1977 – April 2014 (36 years, 10 months) |
Died | [12] | |
Administered by Bishop Fotije of Dalmatia between April and May 2014 (1 month) | |||||
4 |
Porfirije Perić (born 1961) |
May 2014 – February 2021 (6 years, 8 months) |
Elected Serbian Patriarch |
[13] | |
Administered by Patriarch Porfirije between February 2021 and May 2023 (2 years, 3 months) | |||||
Administered by Bishop Kirilo of Buenos Aires and South America since May 2023 (11 months) |
See also
- Serbs of Croatia
- Eastern Orthodoxy in Croatia
- List of the Eparchies of the Serbian Orthodox Church
References
- ^ a b Mileusnić 1997, p. 113.
- ^ Ćirković 2004, p. 118.
- ^ Ćirković 2004, p. 119.
- ^ Constitution of the Serbian Orthodox Church
- ^ Saint Dositej Vasić of Zagreb
- ^ Metropolitan Jovan (Pavlović) of Zagreb-Ljubljana reposed in the Lord
- ^ SOC (2014): Enthronement of His Grace Bishop Dr. Porfirije of Jegar to the throne of Metropolitans of Zagreb-Ljubljana
- ^ "Metropolitan Porfirije of Zagreb and Ljubljana elected for a new Patriarch of Serbia". spc.rs. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
- ^ "Metropolitan Porfirije Of Zagreb And Ljubljana Elected For A New Patriarch Of Serbia". cordmagazine.com. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
- ^ "Serbian Church Elects Patriarch Deemed Close to President". balkaninsight.com. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
- ^ "Serbian Orthodox Church elects new patriarch". reuters.com. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
- ^ "MITROPOLIT JOVAN". mitropolija-zagrebacka.org. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- ^ "Biography of newly-elected Metropolitan Porfirije of Zagreb-Ljubljana". spc.rs. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
Sources
- Bataković, Dušan T., ed. (2005). Histoire du peuple serbe [History of the Serbian People] (in French). Lausanne: L’Age d’Homme.
- Ćirković, Sima (2004). The Serbs. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
- Mileusnić, Slobodan (1997). Spiritual Genocide: A survey of destroyed, damaged and desecrated churches, monasteries and other church buildings during the war 1991-1995 (1997). Belgrade: Museum of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
- Miller, Nicholas J. (1997). Between Nation and State: Serbian Politics in Croatia Before the First World War. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
- Vjerske zajednice u Hrvatskoj, Zagreb: Prometej, 2008. (in Croatian)
- Вуковић, Сава (1996). Српски јерарси од деветог до двадесетог века (Serbian Hierarchs from the 9th to the 20th Century). Евро, Унирекс, Каленић.
- Raković, Aleksandar (2013). "Short Existence of the Faculty of Eastern Orthodox Theology at the University of Zagreb 1920-1924" (PDF). Теолошки погледи. 46 (3): 951–956.
External links
- Official website; accessed 6 June 2015. (in Serbian)
- Lepavina monastery webpage; accessed 6 June 2015. (in Croatian)
- The Serbs in the Former SR of Croatia
- His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Zagreb
- Spiritual Genocide: The Diocese of Zagreb-ljubljana