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Eastern Orthodoxy In Croatia
Eastern Orthodoxy in Croatia refers to adherents, religious communities, institutions and organizations of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Croatia. It is the second-largest religious denomination in Croatia, behind the Roman Catholic Church. Over 128 000 people, forming 3.32% of the total Croatian population, are Eastern Orthodox Christians (2021). Eastern Orthodoxy in Croatia is represented foremost by the Serbian Orthodox Church, which claims most of the Eastern Orthodox Christian faithful. Other major jurisdictions are the Bulgarian Orthodox and Macedonian Orthodox Churches. These three churches are recognized by the state. In Croatia there are also adherents to the Montenegrin Orthodox Church. In Croatia there also exists the Croatian Orthodox Church. Statistics The published data from the 2011 Croatian census included a crosstab of ethnicity and religion, which showed that a total of 190,143 Orthodox believers (4.5% of the total population) was divided between the follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikodim Kosović (1845–1915), Serbian Orthodox Church bishop
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Nikodim is a masculine given name which may refer to: * Saint Nikodim I (died 1325), Eastern Orthodox saint, 10th Metropolitan of Peć and Archbishop of the Serbs * Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov) of Leningrad (1929–1978), Metropolitan of Leningrad and Minsk, and undercover KGB agent *Nikodim Milaš Nikodim Milaš ( sr-cyr, Никодим Милаш; 16 April 1845 – 2 April 1915) was a Serbian Orthodox Church bishop in Dalmatia (nowaday Croatia). He was a writer and arguably the greatest Serbian expert on Orthodox church law and the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zagreb Orthodox Cathedral
The Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Lord ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Храм преображења Господњег, Hram preobraženja Gospodnjeg) is a Serbian Orthodox cathedral located on the Petar Preradović Square in Zagreb, Croatia. It was built in 1865–66 according to designs of architect Franjo Klein. It is ecclesiastically part of the Metropolitanate of Zagreb and Ljubljana and is known as the Zagreb Orthodox Cathedral. History Old St. Marguerite church A wooden Catholic church dedicated to St. Marguerite was located on the place of the modern day cathedral in the 14th century.''Pravoslavna crkva na preradovićevom trgu'', PhD Dragan DamjanovićZagreb-moj grad pages 11-13, Issue 28, year IV, May 2010 The church was restored in the 16th and 17th century. Between 1372 and the 19th century, the annual St. Marguerite fair was organized on the square.''Preradovićev (Cvjetni) trg-ogledalo urbaniteta'', PhD Snježana KneževićZagreb-moj grad pages 4-9, Issue 28, year IV, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepavina Monastery
The Lepavina Monastery ( sr, Манастир Лепавина, Manastir Lepavina) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Presentation of Mary and located at the village of Sokolovac, near the town of Koprivnica in Croatia. From the Beginning Until World War II According to an old local chronicle, the Lepavina monastery was founded around 1550, very soon after the emergence of the first Serbian settlements in this region. A monk from the Hilandar Monastery (on the Athos peninsula, Greece), Jefrem (Ephraim) Vukodabović, born in Herzegovina, together with two monks from Bosnia, built a wooden church here. They were soon joined by several other monks and the institution, according to the chronicle, acquired the status of a monastery. In August 1557, Turks and the Islamized inhabitants of Stupčanica, Pakrac and Bijela, under the leadership of Zarep-Agha Ali, burnt down the church and the monastic buildings, four monks were killed and two taken to slavery. In 1598 Hie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krupa Monastery
The Krupa Monastery ( sr, Манастир Крупа, Manastir Krupa) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery on the Krupa River in Croatia. It is the oldest Orthodox monastery in Croatia. Location It is located on the southern slopes of the Velebit mountain, halfway between the towns of Obrovac and Knin. History According to the folk story, the monastery was built in 1317 by monks from Bosnia, with the financial support from the Serbian king Milutin. However, the monastery has older Gothic windows and Orthodox monastery was probably founded by immigrating monks only around 1642. Supposedly during the reigns, King Stefan Dečanski and Emperor Dušan renovated the monastery. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the monastery was endowed by Saint Angelina of Serbia. Georgije Mitrofanović painted the walls in 1620–22. In the 1760s, Serbian writer and educator, Dositej Obradović, lived and worked in Krupa, while in the 1860s, major Serbian realist author, Simo Matavulj, lived and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krka Monastery
The Krka Monastery ( sr-Cyrl, Манастир Крка, sr, Manastir Krka, italics=yes; hr, Samostan Krka) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Archangel Michael, located near the river Krka, east of Kistanje, in central Dalmatia, Croatia. It is the best known monastery of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Croatia and it is officially protected as part of the Krka National Park. It dates back to 1577. History Supposedly, the oldest extant mention of the monastery was in 1350, when it is listed as an endowment of Serbian princess Jelena Nemanjić Šubić, half-sister of the Serbian emperor Dušan and wife of Mladen III Šubić Bribirski, Croatian duke of Skradin and Bribir. The claim has been met by skepticism and the source described as a forgery, due to the lack of verified proof of the claims. The monastery was built on top of a Roman site, and Roman burial catacombs exist beneath a part of the church. The Romanesque belfry suggest that the Orthodox m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komogovina Monastery
Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Lord is a Serbian Orthodox monastery in Komogovina, Croatia that was in operation between 1693 and 1777. It was established by monks from Bosanska Krajina in XVII century in 1693. Their earlier monastery below the Kozara Mountain was destroyed in war against the Ottoman Empire. Its first monks were Jovo Svilokos and Silvestar Prodanović while monk Atanasije Ljubojević managed to attain religious diploma recognizing monastery's spiritual guidance over the Orthodox Vlachs and Serbs in between the Kupa and Una rivers. In between the 1715 and 1738 the monastery was the seat of the first three epískoposes of the historical Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Kostajnica- those being Ugarković, Dimitrijević and Ljubibratić. Epískopos Andrijević oversaw the construction of present day church in the 1741-1749 period. Due to its small size the monastery was closed down in 1777 and its possessions were transferred to the Gomirje Monastery and to Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gomirje Monastery
Gomirje Monastery ( sr, Манастир Гомирје, Manastir Gomirje) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery in Croatia. It is the westernmost Serb Orthodox monastery, located in the western part of Croatia near the village of Gomirje, near the town of Ogulin. The monastery is thought to have been founded in 1600. The monastery includes the church of Roždenije saint John the Baptist, built in 1719. History Congregation's and Monastery's early years Gomirje Monastery was built in the period of the first larger Serb settling in the villages of Gomirje, Vrbovsko and Moravice at the end of 16th and the beginning of the 17th century. In 1600 nobleman Juraj Frankopan, brother of the Vuk II Krsto Frankopan, have granted right of "the eternal procuration" of depopulated village of Gomirje to the 325 Serb refugees from Udbina and Korenica which at the time were under the control of the Ottoman Empire. One monk arrived together with settlers and in the 1600-1602 period settlers have build ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragović Monastery
The Dragović Monastery () is a Serbian Orthodox monastery situated on a hill downstream the Cetina River not far from Vrlika in Croatia. When the artificial Peruća Lake was created, the original monastery sank due to land movement. The new monastery Dragović was built on a hill not far from the previous one. Dragović Monastery, which, along with the monasteries of Krka and Krupa, has been a spiritual cornerstone for the Serbian Orthodox people in Dalmatia for many centuries. Dragović Monastery is a monastery of the Diocese of the Dalmatian Serbian Orthodox Church, located in the village of Koljane. Based on the chronicle "History of the Holy Nativity Monastery Dragović in the Orthodox Diocese of Dalmatia" created by the first pastor Gerasim Petranović from 1859, the monastery was named after Drago who moved with his brothers from Bosnia to the Cetina region. While according to folklore, the monastery is named after the river that sprang near the old place of the monaster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jovan Ćulibrk
Jovan Ćulibrk (; born 16 April 1965), is a Serbian Orthodox prelate who is the current bishop of Pakrac and Slavonia of the Serbian Orthodox Church, from 2014. Before that, he was titular bishop of Lipljan between 1999 and 2014. Ćulibrk was an active music critic and author about rock and roll and pop culture. Early life and education Jovan was born as Neven Ćulibrk () on 16 April 1965, in Zenica, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia (now in Bosnia and Herzegovina). He finished elementary school and a high school in Bosanska Gradiška. Ćulibrk studied literature in Banja Luka, then literature and South Slavic languages at the Faculty of Philosophy University of Zagreb, from which he graduated in 1991 with a thesis on the work of Miloš Crnjanski. His work on Crnjanski was awarded with the Branko Award by Matica Srpska. Hereupon, he studied theology at the University of Belgrade and at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Foča, Bosnia and Herzegovina where he graduate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eparchy Of Slavonia
Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Slavonia ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна епархија славонска, hr, Srpska pravoslavna eparhija slavonska) is an eparchy (diocese) of the Serbian Orthodox Church encompassing areas of western and central Slavonia, in modern Croatia. Since 2014, the Eparchy is headed by bishop Jovan Ćulibrk. History During the Middle Ages, the Banate of Slavonia was under the rule of Hungarian kings. By the 15th century, some eastern regions of Slavonia were inhabited by Serbs, who settled there after fleeing Bosnia, even before the Ottoman conquest in 1463. Since Serbs were Eastern Orthodox Christians, some tensions occurred with local Catholic Church. In 1438, pope Eugene IV (1431-1447) sent the inquisitor Giacomo della Marca to Slavonia as a missionary, with instruction to convert "schismatic" Serbs to "Roman religion", and if that should fail, to banish them. During that period, Serbian nobility was also present in the region. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irinej Bulović
Irinej Bulović (born Mirko Bulović; 11 February 1947) is a Serbian Orthodox cleric and the current Bishop of Bačka. He serves as а professor of the New Testament exegesis and Greek language on the Faculty of Theology of the University of Belgrade. Biography Bulović was born as Mirko to parents Mihailo and Zorka on 11 February 1947, in Stanišić near Sombor in Serbia (then FPR Yugoslavia). He graduated from the Faculty of Theology in Belgrade in 1969. While a student, he took monastic vows from his mentor Justin Popović and then took monastic name of Irinej (''Irenaeus'').Eparchy of Bačka official siteHis Grace Bishop of Novi Sad and Backa, Sombor and Szeged Mr.Dr. Irenaeus: curriculum vitae In 1969, Pavle, then bishop of Raška and Prizren (later Serbian Patriarch) ordained Bulović as hierodeacon and later hieromonk. For two years (1969–1970) he lived in the Ostrog Monastery where he was a teacher in the monastic school. He completed his post-graduate studies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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