SENJSKA BISKUPIJA U SREDNJEM VIJEKU
THE DIOCESE OF SENJ IN MIDDLE AGES

Summary/Abstract: In this work the author, on the basis of published literature, desoribes the history of the diocese of Senj in Middle Ages. This diocese was for the first time mentioned in the beginning of the 5th c. in the epistle of Pope Innocent the First. He directed the attention of the Bishop Laurentius from Senj to the activities of Fotin-s heresy. During troubled age of the migration of masses, this diocese disappeared together with all the other institutions of power. It will be reestablishedagain not before the middle of the 12th c. when Senj came to be again an important commercial and traffic centre. In the course of the subsequent centuries, rich religious and cultural life were developed and numerous churches and monasteries built therein. Everything will be interrupted again by the foray of Ottomans in our country with the beginning of the 16th c. So, this diocese was, owing to those forays, reduced to merely three parishes: Senj, Otočac, Brinje, of which only the first one was able to function in a certain degree. All the people and clergy from other parishes ran over to the free parts of Croatia or in the other parts of the Monarchy.

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