Arsenije IV Jovanović Šakabenta ( sr-cyr, Арсеније IV Јовановић Шакабента, ; 1698 – 18 January 1748) was the
Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch from 1725 to 1737 and
Head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Habsburg Monarchy from 1737 to his death in 1748.
He commissioned the Slavic heraldic bearings called ''
Stemmatographia.'' He opened the first official Academy of Painting on the territory of the
Metropolitanate of Karlovci after the artistic and cultural reforms were commenced under the auspices and blessing of
Vikentije Jovanović, his predecessor. He was succeeded by
Joannicius III of Constantinople.
Biography
Treaty of Belgrade

With the 1739
Treaty of Belgrade which ended the
Austro-Turkish War (1737–1739), the
Kingdom of Serbia
The Kingdom of Serbia was a country located in the Balkans which was created when the ruler of the Principality of Serbia, Milan I of Serbia, Milan I, was proclaimed king in 1882. Since 1817, the Principality was ruled by the Obrenović dynast ...
ceased to exist. The
Ottoman sultan deposed the pro-Serbian Patriarch of Peć Arsenije IV and in his place appointed the Greek Joannicius, who took the title of ''Archbishop of Peć and Patriarch of the Serbs''.
The previous Patriarch Arsenije IV moved north to the
Habsburg monarchy
The Habsburg monarchy, also known as Habsburg Empire, or Habsburg Realm (), was the collection of empires, kingdoms, duchies, counties and other polities (composite monarchy) that were ruled by the House of Habsburg. From the 18th century it is ...
along with many
Serbs
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, in what is known as the
Second Serbian Migration. Arsenije IV became
Metropolitan of Karlovci, maintaining however deep connections with the Serbs who remained in the
Ottoman Empire
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, particularly the Kosovo Vilayet, now under the Phanariote jurisdiction of Joannicius. Joannicius remained Patriarch of Peć until 1746, when, burdened with debts due to his high-living, he was forced to sell the title to pay his creditors. He was succeeded by Atanasije II (Gavrilović).
Title
Arsenije signed himself "Arsenije, By the Grace of God, Archbishop of Peć and Patriarch of all Serbs and Bulgarians and all of Illyria".
Another style was "Archbishop of All Serbs, Bulgarians, Western Pomorje, Dalmatia, Bosnia, both halves of Danube and all of Illyria".
See also
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Great Serb Migrations
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Metropolitanate of Karlovci
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List of heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church
References
Sources
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External links
Official site of the Serbian Orthodox Church: Serbian Archbishops and Patriarchs
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1698 births
1748 deaths
18th-century Serbian people
18th-century Eastern Orthodox bishops
Arsenije
History of the Serbian Orthodox Church
Ottoman Serbia
Vojvodina under Habsburg rule
Eastern Orthodox Christians from Serbia
People from Peja
Metropolitans of Karlovci