Jovan Nikolić ( sr-cyr, Јован Николић, died 2000s) was a

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priest in

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, Croatia, and the only Serbian Orthodox priest to remain in Zagreb during the Croatian War. He was a critic of the leadership of the

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, and advocate of peaceful coexistence between Serbs and Croats, but was accused by conservative clerics of being a

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. As Serbian Orthodox archpriest in Zagreb in 1995 Nikolić denied rumours of mass conversions to Roman Catholicism, however in 1996 he acknowledged the devastating results of ethnic conflict on the Serbian Orthodox Church in Croatia to ''

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br>Former Yugoslavia: Will Croatians Welcome Serbian Baptists Home?
Nov 11, 1996 ... "Virtually all Catholic churches in the Krajina region were destroyed during Serb rule, beginning in 1991. Today, thieves are reselling in western Europe art stolen from abandoned Orthodox churches. "In 1990 we had one hundred and fifty Orthodox priests working within all Croatia," says Jovan Nikolic, a retired Serbian Orthodox priest in the Croatian capital Zagreb. "Today we have fifteen. None of them are active in Krajina, and no Orthodox services are being held there." Eastern Slavonia remains the last segment of Croatia still controlled by Serbs."

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