Београдски митрополити од 1739. до 1804. године

Nedeljko, Radosavljević

Историјски часопис

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2007-2020/03/09/15:00:57

Following the 1739 conclusion of the Belgrade Peace between the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, establishing the frontier at Sava and Danube, the Church structure was also reorganized. The Belgrade-Karlovac Metropolitan continued, as an independent Karlovac Metropolitan, to operate in the Habsburg lands, while the Belgrade Metropolitan was reorganized as one of the ordinary eparchies of the Peć Patriarchy. Its borders were not changed even after the abolition of autocephaly of the Peć patriarchy in 1766, and remained until the 1831 creation of the autonomous Serbian Metropolitan. Between the 1739 Belgrade Peace and the 1804 First Serbian Uprising, seven Metropolitans headed the Belgrade Metropolitan, only one of which was ethnic Serb. All the others were Greek, and most of them fulfilled their spiritual mission in a conscious and responsible manner. This was a period of the great renewal of Church life, primarily seen in the repairs and reconstructions of old or ruined churches and monasteries. This renewal reached climax during Haji- Mustafa Pasha's rule of the Belgrade Pashaluk, during the last decade of the 18th century, when the reforms extending religious liberties of the Christian population were implemented. This process was interrupted by the Janissary 1801 takeover in the Belgrade Pashaluk and the abolition of these rights, which eventually led to the First Serbian Uprising in 1804. Between then, and the 1831 creation of the autonomous national Serbian Church, the Belgrade Metropolitan existed in circumstances vastly different from the pre-uprising times.

Ottoman Empire, metropolitans, Belgrade Metropolitan, Belgrade peace, believers, clergy, Orthodox Church, Peć Patriarchate, Universal Patriarchate