Eparchy of Gornji Karlovac

Eparchy of Gornji Karlovac
Cathedral of Saint Nicholas, Karlovac
Location
Territory	Lika, Kordun, Banija
Headquarters	Karlovac, Croatia
Statistics
Population - Total	100,000 est.
Information
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox
Sui iuris church	Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarchate of Peć (Serbia)
Established	1695
Cathedral	Cathedral of Saint Nicholas, Karlovac
Language	Church Slavonic Serbian
Current leadership
Bishop	Gerasim
Map
Website
www.eparhija-gornjokarlovacka.hr

The Eparchy of Gornji Karlovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Епархија горњокарловачка, Croatian: Eparhija gornjokarlovačka; "Eparchy of Upper Karlovac") is an eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church seated in the city of Karlovac, Croatia. It covers the area of Banovina, Kordun, Lika, Krbava, Gorski Kotar, as well as northern Croatia and Istria.

The important Orthodox Christian monasteries in the region are Gomirje near Ogulin and Komogovina Monastery between Glina and Kostajnica.

History

The Serbian Orthodox Ličko-Krbavska and Zrinopoljska Eparchy was established in 1695 by the Metropolitan Atanasije Ljubojević and certified by Emperor Joseph I in 1707. This eparchy (from the 19th century known as the Eparchy of Upper Karlovac) was the ecclesiastical centre of the Serbian Orthodox Church in this region, populated by Serbs, the community known at the time as "Rascians".

This eparchy was under jurisdiction of the Metropolitan of Dabar-Bosnia, directly under the restored Serbian Patriarch in Peć and after 1766 under the new Serbian Metropolitanate of Karlovci, comprising Lika, Banija and Kordun.

In 1993 the old Cathedral Church of Saint Nicholas and the eparchy's diocesan residence were destroyed by Croatians during the Croatian war of Independence.

Monasteries

• Gomirje Monastery
• Komogovina Monastery
• Medak Monastery
• Gorica Monastery
• Donji Budački Monastery

Metropolitans

• Atanasije Ljubojević (1688—1712)
• Danilo Ljubotina (1713—1739)
• Pavle Nenadović (1744—1749)
• Danilo Jakšić (1751—1771)
• Josif Stojanović (1771—1774)
• Petar Petrović (1774—1784)
• Jovan Jovanović (1783—1786)
• Genadije Dimović (1786—1796)
• Stefan Avakumović (1798—1801)
• Petar Jovanović Vidak (1801—1806)
• Mojsije Mioković (1807—1823)
• Lukijan Mušicki (1828—1837)
• Evgenije Jovanović (1839—1854)
• Sergije Kaćanski (1858—1859)
• Petar Jovanović (1859—1864)
• Lukijan Nikolajević (1865—1872)
• Teofan Živković (1874—1890)
• Mihailo Grujić (1891—1914)
• Ilarion Zeremski (1920—1931)
• Maksimilijan Hajdin (1931—1936)
• Sava Trlajić (1938—1941)
• Nikanor Iličić (1947—1951)
• Simeon Zloković (1951—1990)
• Nikanor Bogunović (1991—1999)
• Fotije Sladojević (2000—2004)
• Gerasim Popović (2004—).

See also

• Serbs of Croatia
• Eastern Orthodoxy in Croatia
• List of the Eparchies of the Serbian Orthodox Church

Sources

• Ćirković, Sima (2004). The Serbs. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 9781405142915.
• Mileusnić, Slobodan (1997). Spiritual Genocide: A survey of destroyed, damaged and desecrated churches, monasteries and other church buildings during the war 1991-1995 (1997). Belgrade: Museum of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
• Miller, Nicholas J. (1997). Between Nation and State: Serbian Politics in Croatia Before the First World War. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 9780822939894.
• Вуковић, Сава (1996). Српски јерарси од деветог до двадесетог века (Serbian Hierarchs from the 9th to the 20th Century). Евро, Унирекс, Каленић.

External links

• Official website
• The diocese of Upper Karlovac - history and destruction in war
• The Serbs in the Former SR of Croatia