Босна и Херцеговина и потписивање Конвенције 1880. године
Bosnia and Herzegovina and signing of the Convention of 1880

Summary/Abstract: The author briefly gives an overview of events in the occupied provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina related to the position of the Orthodox Church from the Austro-Hungarian occupation to the signing of the Convention in 1880. The state-legal situation in the occupied provinces required changes in the structure and activity of the Orthodox Church. The Occupation authorities were particularly disturbed by the right of the patriarch of Constantinople to appoint metropolitans and the right of Turkish sultan to invest in berats. The cooperation between Vienna and the Patriarchate of Constantinople was not conditioned solely by the fear of strengthening the influence of the Serbian Orthodox Church, but also by the common interest in suppressing Russian post-Slavist politics. The conclusions of the Convention were the biggest blow to the religious self-rule of the Serbian people in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which caused severe protests among Serbian church and school districts. The convention did not solve the problems with the Serbian Orthodox Church, as they thought it would happen in Vienna and Sarajevo, but it hardened relations with Serbian church-school municipalities that would later turn into a movement for church-school autonomy.

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