Church of the Holy Venerable Mother Parascheva ( sh, Hram svete prepodobne majke Paraskeve, sr-cyr, Храм свете пеподобне мајке Параскеве) is a
Serbian Orthodox church
The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian denomination, Christian churches.
The majori ...
located in
Banovci, Vukovar-Syrmia County in eastern
Croatia. The
neoclassical church was built in 1819. The church and its parish are under jurisdiction of the
Eparchy of Srem which is based in
Sremski Karlovci in neighbouring
Serbia.
Within the Eparchy the church in Banovci is organized within the
Šid region with the seat at the
Church of St. Nicholas, Šid with majority of local Banovci priests residing in Šid due to the absence of the local priestly residences in the village. Most of the other Serbian Orthodox churches in Eastern
Slavonia are under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of
Eparchy of Osječko polje and Baranja
Eparchy of Osječko polje and Baranja (Serbian Cyrillic: Епархија осјечкопољска и барањска or Епархија осечкопољска и барањска; hr, Osječkopoljska i baranjska eparhija) is an eparchy (d ...
. The church is dedicated to Saint
Parascheva of the Balkans
Saint Paraskeva of the Balkans (also known as: Света Петка Българска, Petka of Bulgaria, Petka of Serbia, Paraskeva of Serbia, Paraskeva the Serbian, Paraskeva of Belgrade, Parascheva the New, Parascheva the Young, grc, Ὁσ ...
.
Lutheran Christmas Mass of 1859
First
Danube Swabians settled in Banovci in 1859 where they were relying on the support of local Serbian Orthodox priest Uroš.
As the northern part of historical region of
Syrmia
Syrmia ( sh, Srem/Срем or sh, Srijem/Сријем, label=none) is a region of the southern Pannonian Plain, which lies between the Danube and Sava rivers. It is divided between Serbia and Croatia. Most of the region is flat, with the exce ...
was predetermined for German
Catholic colonists, and settlement in the biggest part of
Slavonian Military Frontier was almost impossible, German Protestants had to settle in the bordering region between these two jurisdictions.
As there was no
Lutheran church in Banovci at that time, German Protestant settlers asked priest Uroš to hold a Christmas Mass for them under the Eastern Orthodox liturgical rite.
Priest Uroš have refused this request as it was contrary to Orthodox canonical rules, yet he offered them to organize Christmas Celebration on their own in the St. Petka church.
He also attended their celebration which impressed him but he did not lead the prayer.
Gallery
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See also
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Serbs of Croatia
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Evangelical Reformed Church in Šidski Banovci
Evangelical Reformed Church (german: Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Šidski Banovci, hr, Evangelička crkva u Šidskim Banovcima, sr-Cyrl, Евангелистичка црква у Шидским Бановцима) in Banovci in eastern Croat ...
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List of Serbian Orthodox churches in Croatia
Territory of modern-day Croatia is divided between 7 eparchies of the Serbian Orthodox Church. 5 of them have their seat in Croatia, one in Serbia and one in Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of March 2021 the central public ''Records of Religious Comm ...
References
Churches completed in 1818
19th-century Serbian Orthodox church buildings
Banovci
Protestantism in Croatia
19th-century Lutheranism
Eastern Orthodox ecumenical and interfaith relations
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