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Archdiocese Of Arad
The Archdiocese or Archbishopric of Arad ( ro, Arhiepiscopia Aradului), formerly the Bishopric of Arad ( ro, Episcopia Aradului, sr, Арадска епархија) is an episcopal see of the Romanian Orthodox Church, under the administration of the Metropolis of Banat, with jurisdiction over Arad County in Romania. The current head is bishop Timotei Seviciu. History The history of Eastern Orthodox Christianity on the territory of the present-day bishopric is very long and dates back to late Antiquity and early Middle Ages. The Eparchy of Arad in its modern form was created after the Austro-Turkish war (1683-1699), in 1706 when the city of Arad and its region became part of Habsburg monarchy. During 18th century and up to the middle of 19th century, Bishopric of Arad was under jurisdiction of the Metropolitanate of Karlovci. Eparchy of Arad also had an important regional vicariate (exarchate) in the city of Oradea. Majority of Eastern Orthodox Christians of this Eparchy were e ...
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Arad, Romania
Arad (; German and Hungarian: ''Arad,'' ) is the capital city of Arad County, Transylvania. It is the third largest city in Western Romania, behind Timișoara and Oradea, and the 12th largest in Romania, with a population of 159,704. A busy transportation hub on the Mureș River and an important cultural and industrial center, Arad has hosted one of the first music conservatories in Europe, one of the earliest normal schools in Europe, and the first car factory in Hungary and present-day Romania. Today, it is the seat of a Romanian Orthodox archbishop and features a Romanian Orthodox theological seminary and two universities. The city's multicultural heritage is owed to the fact that it has been part of the Kingdom of Hungary, the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom, the Ottoman Temeşvar Eyalet, Principality of Transylvania, Austro-Hungarian Empire, and since 1920 Romania, having had significant populations of Hungarians, Germans, Jews, Serbs, Bulgarians and Czechs at various ...
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Greeks
The Greeks or Hellenes (; el, Έλληνες, ''Éllines'' ) are an ethnic group and nation indigenous to the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea regions, namely Greece, Greek Cypriots, Cyprus, Greeks in Albania, Albania, Greeks in Italy, Italy, Greeks in Turkey#History, Turkey, Greeks in Egypt, Egypt, and, to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. They also form a significant Greek diaspora, diaspora (), with Greek communities established around the world.. Greek colonies and communities have been historically established on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea, but the Greek people themselves have always been centered on the Aegean Sea, Aegean and Ionian Sea, Ionian seas, where the Greek language has been spoken since the Bronze Age.. Until the early 20th century, Greeks were distributed between the Greek peninsula, the western coast of Asia Minor, the Black Sea coast, Cappadocia in central Anatolia, Egypt, the Balkans, Cyprus, an ...
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Pavle Nenadović
Pavle Nenadović ( sr-cyr, Павле Ненадовић, ; 1703–1768) was the Serbian Orthodox Archbishop and Metropolitan of Karlovci from 1749 to 1768. Biography Pavle Nenadović was born on 14 January 1703 in Budim, Hungary. At the age of eighteen, he was employed as a clerk in the Budim Magistrates Office. He became a Serbian Orthodox cleric in 1726, after which he took monastic vows in the Rakovac Monastery. In 1737, Serbian Patriarch Arsenije IV appointed Pavle as his general exarch, and in 1742 the patriarch appointed him as the bishop of the Eparchy of upper Karlovac. Arsenije IV also commissioned Pavle Nenadović, a cleric who was by then well-known as a poet, to compose a heraldic handbook, ''Stemmatographia'' (meaning "the drawing of ancestry" in Greek). This heraldic album was modelled after a book of the same title on Slavonic heraldic bearings, engraved in 1701 by Croatian poet Pavao Ritter Vitezović (who modelled his Stemmatographia after an older version of Sla ...
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Isaija Antonović
Isaija II (Antonović), also referred to Isaija II (secular name: Jovan Antonović; 1696, Budapest – 22 January 1749, Vienna), was the eight metropolitan of Karlovci from 1748 until his death in 1749, a significant year for the Serb minority in the Habsburg monarchy. It was a time when the Serbian metropolitan and his subordinates were petitioning Maria Theresa to allow their immigrants from Venetian and Turkish lands to settle, have priests and build churches in the empire. Biography He was born in Budapest in 1696 to a prominent family of merchants and craftsmen who had moved from Novi Pazar to Buda with Patriarch Arsenije III Crnojević. His parents, Antonije and Suzana Antonijević, named him Jovan at his baptism in the Serbian Orthodox Church. The family's financial standing and the cultural and political life of the Serb community at Buda undoubtedly influenced Jovan Antonović's choice after marrying to become a priest and pursue a teaching career. When he became a wi ...
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Sofronije Ravaničianin
Sofronije may refer to: * Sofronije Podgoričanin (1668 - 1711), the Metropolitan of Karlovac * Sofronije Kirilović (died 1786), Serbian Orthodox bishop in the Habsburg * Sofronije Jugović-Marković (fl. 1789), Habsburg Serb writer and activist in Russian service See also * Sofronie * Sofron Sofron may refer to: * Sofron Mudry, Ukrainian Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church * Sofron Dmyterko, Ukrainian Bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church * István Sofron, Hungarian professional ice hockey player See also * Sofronije * ...
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Joanikije Martinović
Joanikije ( sr-cyr, Јоаникије) is the Serbian variant of Greek name '' Ioannikios''. It may refer to: * Joanikije I, Serbian Archbishop (1272–76) * Joanikije II, Serbian Archbishop (1338–46) and first Serbian Patriarch (1346–54) *Joanikije III, Serbian (1739–46) and later Ecumenical Patriarch (1761–1763) * Joanikije (Pamučina) (1810-1870), Serbian Orthodox bishop and writer from Herzegovina * Joanikije I (1890–1945), Metropolitan of Montenegro and Serbian Orthodox saint *Joanikije Mićović (born 1959), current Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral {{hndis *Joanikije of Devič Joanikije of Devič ( sr, Јоаникије Девички), archaically also Janićije (Јанићије) was a 15th-century Serbian Orthodox saint. He was a native Serb from the Principality of Zeta or, according to another source, a Serb from ..., 15th-cenury saint Serbian masculine given names ...
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Isaija Đaković
Isaija Đaković or Isaija I (Grabovac, near Stari Slankamen, Habsburg monarchy, 1635 – Vienna, Habsburg Monarchy, 20 July 1708) was elected to the rank of Metropolitan of Krušedol ( Karlovci) in 1708. Isaija is best remembered as the first Serbian metropolite under Habsburg monarchy and for his diplomatic skills when he obtained the amendments in the Privileges. He was succeeded by Sofronije Podgoričanin. Biography Đaković was born in the village of Grabovac, near Stari Slankamen, located in today's Inđija municipality in the Syrmia District of Serbia. He graduated from elementary school, gymnasium and the Theological Seminary. He married his village sweetheart before being ordained in the priesthood. His wife died prematurely, and he gave up everything for Christ and accepted monasticism at the Krušedol Monastery. Later on, as an educated monk who spoke perfect German, he was elevated to the rank of Bishop of ''Jenopolje'' (Ineu in modern Romania). In Belgrade, in 16 ...
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Vikentije Jovanović
Vikentije Jovanović ( sr-cyr, Викентије Јовановић; 1689 – June 6, 1737) was the Serbian Orthodox Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci from 1731 to 1737, as Vikentije II. During his diplomatic mission in Vienna in 1734, he was given permission by Emperor Charles VI to establish a hussar regiment constituted solely of Serbs and Croats. It was officially named ''Illyrian-Rascian regiment'' and inaugurated on June 16, 1735, in a grand ceremony officiated by Vikentije. The ceremony took place outside Budim where the banners which were used symbolized his importance in the Austrian Empire, but also the dual symbolism of East and West; dual coats of arms on their spears, two languages in their inscriptions ( Church Slavonic and Latin), and the use of Eastern iconography and Western emblematic imagery. Vikentije's hussars went on to fight in the Austro-Russian–Turkish War (1735-1739). Annotations ). See also * Metropolitanate of Karlovci * List of heads of ...
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World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fighting occurring throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Pacific Ocean, Pacific, and parts of Asia. An estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military action, hunger, and disease. Millions more died in Genocides in history (World War I through World War II), genocides within the Ottoman Empire and in the Spanish flu, 1918 influenza pandemic, which was exacerbated by the movement of combatants during the war. Prior to 1914, the European great powers were divided between the Triple Entente (comprising French Third Republic, France, Russia, and British Empire, Britain) and the Triple A ...
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Eparchy Of Vršac
The Eparchy of Banat ( sr, Банатска епархија, Banatska eparhija) is an ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Banat region, Serbia. It is mostly situated in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, while the eparchy also includes a small south-western part of Banat that belongs to the City of Belgrade as well as village of Ostrovo that belongs to the city of Požarevac. The seat of the eparchy is in Vršac. History The Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Vršac was one of several eparchies created on the territory of Banat during the 16th century under the jurisdiction of the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć. By the time of the accession of Serbian patriarch Makarije I (1557), much of the Banat region was already conquered by the Turks, who took over Temeswar in 1552. The region was organized as a Turkish eyalet (province) named the Eyalet of Temeşvar. During Turkish rule in the 16th and 17th centuries, Banat was mainly populated by ...
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Eparchy Of Temišvar
The Eparchy of Temišvar ( sr, Епархија темишварска or ) is a diocese or eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church, having jurisdiction over the territory of Romania. The see of the eparchy is in Timișoara ( sr, Темишвар or ). Bishops List of Serbian Orthodox Bishops of Temišvar: * Neofit (1608); * Isaija (1640); * Josif (1643); * Teodor (1643); * Sevastijan (1644, 1647); * Mihajl (1681—1687); * Vasilije (1688); * Josif II (1688); * Vasilije (1693); * Isaija Đaković (1695—1710); * Konstantin Grk (1704-1713); * Joanikije Vladisavljević (1713-1727); * Nikola Dimitrijević (1728-1744); * Georgije Popović (1745-1757); * Vikentije Jovanović-Vidak (1759-1774); * Mojsej Putnik (1774-1781); * Sofronije Kirilović (1781-1786); * Petar Petrović (1786-1800); * Stefan Avakumović (1801-1822); * Josif Putnik (1829-1830); * Maksim Manulović (1833-1838); * Pantelejmon Živković (1839-1851); * Samuilo Maširević (1853-1864); * Antonije Nako (1864-18 ...
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Eparchy Of Arad
The Archdiocese or Archbishopric of Arad ( ro, Arhiepiscopia Aradului), formerly the Bishopric of Arad ( ro, Episcopia Aradului, sr, Арадска епархија) is an episcopal see of the Romanian Orthodox Church, under the administration of the Metropolis of Banat, with jurisdiction over Arad County in Romania. The current head is bishop Timotei Seviciu. History The history of Eastern Orthodox Christianity on the territory of the present-day bishopric is very long and dates back to late Antiquity and early Middle Ages. The Eparchy of Arad in its modern form was created after the Austro-Turkish war (1683-1699), in 1706 when the city of Arad and its region became part of Habsburg monarchy. During 18th century and up to the middle of 19th century, Bishopric of Arad was under jurisdiction of the Metropolitanate of Karlovci. Eparchy of Arad also had an important regional vicariate (exarchate) in the city of Oradea. Majority of Eastern Orthodox Christians of this Eparchy w ...
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