Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.59323/k.15.2.5

Priests of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Units of the People’s Liberation Army of Yugoslavia

Vladimir Šumanović ; University of Zagreb Faculty of Croatian Studies, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Based on archival and published documents and relevant historiographical literature, this paper describes the main characteristics of the priests
of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) who held the functions of religious officers in the People’s Liberation Army of Yugoslavia (NOVJ),
the armed force of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ). The available sources point to the conclusion that SPC priests had a great influence in the NOVJ units, because they were religious officers in those
units that were considered elite. Also, the SPC priest Vlada Zečević was
a religious officer in the Supreme Headquarters of the NOVJ and had the
role of supreme religious officer in the NOVJ.

Keywords

Communist Party of Yugoslavia; People’s Liberation Army of Yugoslavia; Vlada Zečević; religious officers; Serbian Orthodox Church

Hrčak ID:

323440

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/323440

Publication date:

12.12.2024.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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