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

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, a clerical Grande école. It is a college following the French academic standards of the Grande école, hence Higher School or ''Visoka škola'', on par with university. The university is located at Sremski Karlovci. It was founded in 1794, three years after the

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by Metropolitan Stefan Stratimirović. 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

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was one of the professors. In that period one of the first departments for bee keeping 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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Georgije Branković, located in the old city core.

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