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Eastern Orthodoxy In Croatia
Eastern Orthodoxy in Croatia refers to adherents, religious communities, institutions and organizations of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Croatia. It is the second-largest religious denomination in Croatia, behind the Catholic Church in Croatia, Roman Catholic Church. Over 128 000 people, forming 3.32% of the total Croatian population, are Eastern Orthodox Christians (2021). Eastern Orthodoxy in Croatia is represented foremost by the Serbian Orthodox Church, which claims most of the Eastern Orthodox Christian faithful. Other major jurisdictions are the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Bulgarian Orthodox and Macedonian Orthodox Churches. These three churches are recognized by the state. In Croatia there are also adherents to the Montenegrin Orthodox Church. In the past, there was a Croatian Orthodox Church, although it was unrecognized by the Serbian Orthodox Church. Statistics The published data from the 2021 Croatian census included a crosstab of ethnicity and religion, which showe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manastir Gomirje
Bitola (; ) is a city in the southwestern part of North Macedonia. It is located in the southern part of the Pelagonia valley, surrounded by the Baba (North Macedonia), Baba, Nidže, and Kajmakčalan mountain ranges, north of the Medžitlija-Níki border crossing with Greece. The city stands at an important junction connecting the south of the Adriatic Sea region with the Aegean Sea and Central Europe, and it is an administrative, cultural, industrial, commercial, and educational centre. It has been known since the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman period as the "City of Consuls", since many European countries had consulates in Bitola. Bitola, known during the Ottoman Empire as Manastır or Monastir, is one of the oldest cities in North Macedonia. It was founded as Heraclea Lyncestis in the middle of the 4th century BC by Philip II of Macedon. The city was the last capital of the First Bulgarian Empire (1015–1018) and the last capital of Ottoman Rumelia, from 1836 to 1867. According to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikodim Kosović
Nikodim is a masculine given name which may refer to: *Saint Nikodim I (died 1325), Eastern Orthodox saint, 10th Metropolitan of Peć and Archbishop of the Serbs * Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov) of Leningrad (1929–1978), Metropolitan of Leningrad and Minsk, and undercover KGB agent *Nikodim Milaš Nikodim Milaš ( sr-cyr, Никодим Милаш), born Nikola Milaš, (16 April 1845 – 2 April 1915), was a Serbian Orthodox Church bishop, theologian, university professor and academic. He was a writer, one of the most respected experts on ... (1845–1915), Serbian Orthodox Church bishop {{given name Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zagreb Orthodox Cathedral
The Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Lord ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Храм преображења Господњег, Hram preobraženja Gospodnjeg) is a Serbian Orthodox cathedral located on the Petar Preradović Square in Zagreb, Croatia. It was built in 1865–66 according to designs of architect Franjo Klein. It is ecclesiastically part of the Metropolitanate of Zagreb and Ljubljana and is known as the Zagreb Orthodox Cathedral. Following the 2020 Zagreb earthquake, the Cathedral was reconstructed due to major damage that occurred. History Old St. Marguerite church A wooden Catholic church dedicated to St. Marguerite was located on the place of the modern day cathedral in the 14th century.''Pravoslavna crkva na preradovićevom trgu'', PhD Dragan DamjanovićZagreb-moj grad pages 11-13, Issue 28, year IV, May 2010 The church was restored in the 16th and 17th century. Between 1372 and the 19th century, the annual St. Marguerite fair was organized on the square.''Preradovićev (C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lepavina Monastery
The Lepavina Monastery () is a Serbian Orthodox Church, Serbian Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Presentation of Mary and located at the village of Sokolovac, Koprivnica-Križevci County, Sokolovac, near the town of Koprivnica in Croatia. From the Beginning Until World War II According to an old local chronicle, the Lepavina monastery was founded around 1550, very soon after the emergence of the first Serbs, Serbian settlements in this region. A monk from the Hilandar Monastery (on the Mount Athos, Athos peninsula, Greece), Jefrem (Ephraim) Vukodabović, born in Herzegovina, together with two monks from Bosnia (region), Bosnia, built a wooden church here. They were soon joined by several other monks and the institution, according to the chronicle, acquired the status of a monastery. In August 1557, Turks and the Islamized inhabitants of Stupčanica, Pakrac and Bijela, under the leadership of Zarep-Agha Ali, burnt down the church and the monastic buildings, four monks were ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krka Monastery
The Krka Monastery ( sr-Cyrl, Манастир Крка, ; ) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Archangel Michael, located near the river Krka, east of Kistanje, in central Dalmatia, Croatia. It is the best known monastery of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Croatia and it is officially protected as part of the Krka National Park. It was established around 1577 or later on the ground of previous Gothic- Romanesque style Catholic church. History The monastery was built on top of an Ancient Roman site. Roman burial catacombs, Romanesque belfry, Gothic window and other parts of the building (including graves), show that the Orthodox monastery was previously home to a late medieval Catholic church or monastery (c. 14th century), whose architectural style was uncommon for the Serbian-Byzantine Orthodox churches of the time. According to most recent synthesis of archaeological, architectural, conservation-restoration research, the monastery's church had three buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komogovina Monastery
Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Lord is a Serbian Orthodox monastery in Komogovina, Croatia that was in operation between 1693 and 1777. It was established by monks from Bosanska Krajina in the 17th century in 1693. Their earlier monastery below the Kozara Mountain was destroyed in war against the Ottoman Empire. Its first monks were Jovo Svilokos and Silvestar Prodanović while monk Atanasije Ljubojević managed to attain religious diploma recognizing monastery's spiritual guidance over the Orthodox Vlachs and Serbs in between the Kupa and Una rivers. In between the 1715 and 1738 the monastery was the seat of the first three epískoposes of the historical Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Kostajnica- those being Ugarković, Dimitrijević and Ljubibratić. Epískopos Andrijević oversaw the construction of present day church in the 1741-1749 period. Due to its small size the monastery was closed down in 1777 and its possessions were transferred to the Gomirje Monastery and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gomirje Monastery
Gomirje Monastery () is a Serbian Orthodox monastery in Croatia. It is the westernmost Serb Orthodox monastery, located in the western part of Croatia near the village of Gomirje, near the town of Ogulin. The monastery is thought to have been founded in 1600. The monastery includes the church of Roždenije saint John the Baptist, built in 1719. History Congregation's and Monastery's early years Gomirje Monastery was built in the period of the first larger Serb settling in the villages of Gomirje, Vrbovsko and Moravice at the end of 16th and the beginning of the 17th century. In 1600 nobleman Juraj Frankopan, brother of the Vuk II Krsto Frankopan, have granted right of "the eternal procuration" of depopulated village of Gomirje to the 325 Serb refugees from Udbina and Korenica which at the time were under the control of the Ottoman Empire. According to one source relayed by Fras, 3 monks arrived, Auxentios Branković, Bessarion Vučković and Mardarios Orlović, who together laid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragović Monastery
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Dragovic, Dragović or Dragovič may refer to: People * Dragović (surname), a South Slavic surname Places * Dragovič, Juršinci, a village in Slovenia * Dragović, Pakrac, a village in Croatia * Dragović Monastery, a monastery in Croatia See also *Dragovich (other) *Dragovići (other) *Drago (other) Drago may refer to: People * Drago (given name) * Drago (surname) * Drago (wrestler), Mexican professional wrestler Víctor Soto * Drago Dumbovic, Croatian footballer known simply as Drago * Drago, nickname of Alexander Volkov * Prince del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jovan Ćulibrk
Jovan Ćulibrk (; born 16 April 1965), is a Serbian Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox prelate who is the current bishop Eparchy of Slavonia, of Pakrac and Slavonia of the Serbian Orthodox Church, from 2014. Before that, he was titular bishop of Eparchy of Lipljan, Lipljan between 1999 and 2014. Ćulibrk was an active music critic and author about rock and roll and pop culture. Early life and education Jovan was born as Neven Ćulibrk () on 16 April 1965, in Zenica, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia (now in Bosnia and Herzegovina). He finished elementary school and a high school in Bosanska Gradiška. Ćulibrk studied literature in Banja Luka, then literature and South Slavic languages at the Faculty of Philosophy University of Zagreb, from which he graduated in 1991 with a thesis on the work of Miloš Crnjanski. His work on Crnjanski was awarded with the Branko Radičević, Branko Award by Matica Srpska. Hereupon, he studied theolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eparchy Of Slavonia
Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Slavonia ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна епархија славонска, ) is an eparchy (diocese) of the Serbian Orthodox Church encompassing areas of western and central Slavonia, Croatia. Since 2014, the Eparchy is headed by bishop Jovan Ćulibrk. History During the Middle Ages, the Banate of Slavonia was under the rule of Hungarian kings. By the 15th century, some eastern regions of Slavonia were inhabited by Serbs, who settled there after fleeing Bosnia, even before the Ottoman conquest in 1463. Since Serbs were Eastern Orthodox Christians, some tensions occurred with local Catholic Church. In 1438, pope Eugene IV (1431–1447) sent the inquisitor Giacomo della Marca to Slavonia as a missionary, with instruction to convert "schismatic" Serbs to "Roman religion", and if that should fail, to banish them. During that period, Serbian nobility was also present in the region. In 1454, Serbian Orthodox liturgical book, the Vara� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irinej Bulović
Irinej Bulović (born Mirko Bulović; 11 February 1947) is a Serbian Orthodox cleric who was elected Bishop of Bačka in 1990. He serves as а professor of the New Testament exegesis and Greek language on the Faculty of Theology of the University of Belgrade. Biography Bulović was born as Mirko to parents Mihailo and Zorka on 11 February 1947, in Stanišić near Sombor in Serbia (then FPR Yugoslavia). He graduated from the Faculty of Theology in Belgrade in 1969. While a student, he took monastic vows from his mentor Justin Popović and then took monastic name of Irinej (''Irenaeus'').Eparchy of Bačka official siteHis Grace Bishop of Novi Sad and Backa, Sombor and Szeged Mr.Dr. Irenaeus: curriculum vitae In 1969, Pavle, then bishop of Raška and Prizren (later Serbian Patriarch) ordained Bulović as hierodeacon and later hieromonk. For two years (1969–1970) he lived in the Ostrog Monastery where he was a teacher in the monastic school. He completed his post-graduate studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
