Original scientific paper
Priests and Recatholicisation in South Transdanubia after the Ottoman Rule
Zoltán Gőzsy
; Faculty of Humanities - Institute of History, University of Pécs, Hungary
Abstract
The study analyses the development of the institutions of the Roman Catholic Church, and the possibilities and forms of Catholicisation in the first part of the 18th centurty. This work also reveals how much the certain parishes and priests contributed to the Church consolidation, and whether their activities were ruled by the Tridentinum (residence, visitation, etc.) The reorganisation of the dioceses obviously started with setting their boundaries and their jurisdiction. However, it sparked several debates and conflicts among the bishops of Zagreb, Veszprém and Pécs in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The study also deals with the problems of parish organisation. Priests working in South Transdanubia had to meet several requirements on behalf of the state, the Church, the landowners and the congregations, all of whom were interested in acquiring apt priests that could satisfy all the demands. They wanted the priests to unify and integrate the religiously heterogenuous population to a certain extent. Thus, more factors were considered when choosing the priests of the region. The study lays a special emphasis on showing the roles of the priests of Croatian descent and those coming from Croatia. It also reveals their role in the Croatian communities of Somogy, Baranya and Zala counties.
Keywords
Bishopric of Pécs; Bishopric of Veszprém; Bishopric of Zagreb; Baranya county; Somogy county; Tolna county; institutions of the Roman Catholic Church; parishes; priests; priest training; church policy; confessionalism; consolidation; reorganisation; language competence; South Transdanubia; Tridentinum; visitation (parish visitation records); Franciscan order; German; Croatian and Hungarian population; German; Croatian and Hungarian communities
Hrčak ID:
77928
URI
Publication date:
1.12.2008.
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