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

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, a

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, hence Higher School or ''Visoka škola'', on par with university. The university is located at

Sremski Karlovci Sremski Karlovci ( sr-Cyrl, Сремски Карловци, ) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka Districtautonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated on the banks of the Danube, from Novi Sad. According to the 202 ...

. It was founded in 1794, three years after the Gymnasium of Karlovci by Metropolitan

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. Then the city was the seat of the

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(later it became the

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). This school represents one of the oldest and most important educational institutions for

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. During the 19th century, along with the Orthodox Seminary in Belgrade, it formed the basis of Serbian theological education. The second half of the 19th century represents the golden age in the history of this school, when

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became the rector, and Baron

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was one of the professors. In that period one of the first departments for

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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 (), built at the beginning of the 20th century by

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Georgije Branković Georgije Branković ( sr-Cyrl, Георгије Бранковић; 1830–1907) was the Patriarch of Karlovci, the spiritual leader of Habsburg Serbs, from 1890 until his death in 1907. He instigated a number of significant religious, education ...

, located in the old city core. The building of the school houses the

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, the oldest modern type Serbian archive.

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