Парохије и свештенство Горњокарловачке епархије 1772. године: II - Банска крајина
The Parishes and the Clergy in Episcopacy of Gornji Karlovac in 1772: II - Banska Krajina (Banalgrenze)

Summary/Abstract: In 1773, Metropolitan Jovan Georgijević required from Bishop Josif Stojanović to make specification, that is the detailed description of the parishes and the clergy in the part of Episcopacy of Gornji Karlovac under his jurisdiction. At that time Habsburg authorities made and carried out a plan of the new organization of orthodox parishes in the Metropolis of Karlovci. According to the applied principle, one parish should cover at least 100 houses, and there should be only one priest. At the end of April in 1773, Bishop Josif Stojanovic finished the specification related to the territory of Banska krajina that is the Military border under the government of Croatian ban, and sent it to Metropolitan Jovan. Although it is dated in 1773, this document presents the situation as it was before the new parishes’ organization. This paper presents the document Descriptio Dioecesis Carlostadiensis, written by Bishop Josif, and compares the information about clergy and parishes, before and after the reduction made by the authorities. Although the number of parishes was increased by authorities from 39 to 50, the number of the priests was drastically reduced. Out of 107 priests in Banska krajina, noted by Bishop Josif Stojanovic in 1773, only 50 kept the service after 1775.

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