Парохије и свештенство Горњокарловачке епархије 1772. године: I - Карловачки генералат
The Parishes and the Clergy in Episcopacy of Gornji Karlovac in 1772: I - Karlovac Military-District (Karlstadter Generalat)

Summary/Abstract: In the early 70’s of the 18th century, Habsburg authorities started a process of size equilization 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. That process also happened in Episcopacy of Gornji Karlovac which included the territory of two military-districts (Karlstädter Generalat and Banalgrenze) and a few villages under civilian administration of Zagreb County. In 1772, Karlovac military-district command, made and carried out a plan of the new organization of orthodox parishes. After reviewing the plan, Metropolitan Jovan Georgijević required from Aleksije Gavrilović to make urgent specification, that is the detailed description of the parishes and the clergy in the part of Episcopacy of Gornji Karlovac under his administration. At the end of April in 1773, he finished the specification and sent it to Metropolitan Jovan. Aleksije Gavrilović administrated the part of Episcopacy which included, not only the territory of Karlovac military-district, but a few villages as well, from Count Dršsković’s estate and also a few villages from Banalgrenze. Although this document’s date is 29th April 1773, it presents the real situation as it was before the new parishes’ organization, before the autumn of 1772. This paper compares the information about clergy and parishes, before and after the reduction made by the authorities. It was possible to compare the data only for the territory of Karlovac military-district (the region of the regiments settled in Lika, Otok, Ogulin and Slunj) which could be found in both documents. Although the number of parishes was increased by authorities from 50 to 63, the number of the priests was drastically reduced. Out of 128 priests in Karlovac military-district, noted by Aleksije Gavrilovic, only 63 kept the service, and 65 of them were made redundant by the authorities.

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