Clerical High School of Saint Arsenije ( sr, Богословија Свети Арсеније Сремац / ''Bogoslovija Sveti Arsenije Sremac''), is the oldest

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, a

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. It is a college following the French academic standards of the

, hence Higher School or ''Visoka škola'', on par with university. The university is located at

Sremski Karlovci Sremski Karlovci ( sr-cyrl, Сремски Карловци, ; hu, Karlóca; tr, Karlofça) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated on the banks of the Danub ...

. It was founded in 1794, three years after the

Gymnasium of Karlovci The Karlovci Gymnasium ( sr, Карловачка гимназија, Karlovačka gimnazija) is the high school ( gymnasium) located in the town of Sremski Karlovci. It is the oldest secondary school in Serbia. This type of school is comparable ...

by Metropolitan

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. This school represents one of the oldest and most important educational institutions for

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. The second half of the 19th century represents the golden age in the history of this school, when

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became the

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, and Baron Jovan Živković was one of the professors. In that period one of the first departments for

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was established in the school. The Clerical school was closed in 1914, after the

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reestablished in

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. The modern Clerical school called "Saint Arsenije Sremac" was founded in 1964, in a building called ( or ), built at the beginning of the 20th century by

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, located in the old city core.

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