Pavle Nenadović ( sr-cyr, Павле Ненадовић, ; 1703–1768) was the
Serbian Orthodox
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The majority of the populat ...
Archbishop
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and
Metropolitan of Karlovci from 1749 to 1768.
Biography
Pavle Nenadović was born on 14 January 1703 in
Budim, Hungary. At the age of eighteen, he was employed as a clerk in the Budim Magistrates Office. He became a Serbian Orthodox cleric in 1726, after which he took monastic vows in the
Rakovac Monastery. In 1737, Serbian Patriarch
Arsenije IV appointed Pavle as his general
exarch
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from Ancient Greek ἔξαρχος ''exarchos'') was the holder of any of various historical offices, some of them being political or military and others being ecclesiastical.
In the late Roman Empire and early Byzantine Empire, ...
, and in 1742 the patriarch appointed him as the bishop of the
Eparchy of upper Karlovac.
Arsenije IV also commissioned Pavle Nenadović, a cleric who was by then well known as a poet, to compose a heraldic handbook, ''Stemmatographia'' (meaning "the drawing of ancestry" in Greek). This heraldic album was modelled after a book of the same title on Slavonic heraldic bearings, engraved in 1701 by Croatian poet
Pavao Ritter Vitezović
Pavao Ritter Vitezović (; 7 January 1652 – 20 January 1713) was a Habsburg-Croatian polymath, variously described as a historian, linguist, publisher, poet, political theorist, diplomat, printmaker, draughtsman, cartographer, writer and printe ...
(who modelled his Stemmatographia after an older version of Slavic heraldry composed by
Mavro Orbini
Mavro Orbini (1563–1614) was a Ragusan chronicler, notable for his work '' The Realm of the Slavs'' (1601) which influenced Slavic ideology and historiography in the later centuries.
Life
Orbini was born in Ragusa (now Dubrovnik), the capital ...
). Arsenije IV's Stemmatographia was perceived by some as an illustrated political programme that was supposed to act both as a verification of the Serbian historical past and as a clear geopolitical statement of the lands belonging to the Serbs in the Balkans. His intention, however, was educational, and for this work he hired three people:
Hristofor Žefarović
Hristofor Žefarović (, sr-Cyrl, Христофор Жефаровић, ''Hristofor Zhefarovich'') was an 18th-century painter, engraver, writer and poet and a notable proponent of early Illyrian movement, pan-South Slavism.
Biography
Born at ...
, originally from Dojran, as an artist; German-born Thomas Mesmer as an engraver; and clergyman Pavle Nenadović as a poet.
In 1748, Pavle Nenadović was elected
Bishop of Arad, but shortly after the death of metropolitan Isaija Antonović he was chosen to succeed him as new metropolitan of Karlovci in 1749. He worked on the promotion of culture and education of the
Serbs
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in the
Habsburg monarchy
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. A result of his work was a significant increase of interest in science and literature among the Serbs. Metropolitan Pavle fought against the conversion of Serbs in
Croatia
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and Romanians in
Transilvania
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into
Uniate
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s. He died on 15 August 1768.
Епископ Павле Ненадовић
" (in Serbian). Eparchy of upper Karlovac
After the suppression of the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć
Serbian Patriarchate of Peć (, ''Srpska patrijaršija u Peći''), or simply Peć Patriarchate (, ''Pećka patrijaršija''), was an autocephaly, autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Patriarchate that existed from 1346 to 1463, and then again from 155 ...
in 1766, his Metropolitanate of Karlovci became an autocephalous
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Serbian Orthodox Church
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continuator
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.
Legacy
He is included in The 100 most prominent Serbs
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.
See also
* Metropolitanate of Karlovci
The Metropolitanate of Karlovci () was a metropolitanate of the Eastern Orthodox Church that existed in the Habsburg monarchy between 1708 and 1848. Between 1708 and 1713, it was known as the Metropolitanate of Krušedol Monastery, Krušedol, ...
* List of heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church
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References
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18th-century Serbian people
18th-century Eastern Orthodox bishops
Metropolitans of Karlovci
Eastern Orthodox Christians from Serbia
Clergy from Budapest
Serbs of Hungary
Habsburg Serbs
1703 births
1768 deaths