Review article
The Establishment of the Greek-Orthodox Parish of St. Spiridon In Peroj 1784 (A Tribute to the History of the Orthodoxy in Istria)
Alojz Štoković
Abstract
In Istria today, there are two active Orthodox church communities. One of them is the community of St. Nicolas in Pula, and the other the community of St. Spiridon in Peroj. Both communities are subject to the spiritual and church power of the Serbian Orthodox church, i.e. the Serbian patriarch in Belgrade / in the Eparchy of Dalmatia. At the time of their establishment, they had both been under the jurisdiction of the titular archbishop of Philadelphia, who was actually the exarch of the patriarch of Constantinople seated in Venice. It needs mentioning that the title and the honour of the archbishop of Philadelphia were introduced in 1557, a year following the revival of the Patriarchate of Peć (1556). As of 1557, the Venetian prelate exercised authority over the entire Orthodox congregation in the territory of the Venetian Republic, which also includes the congregation in Istria. Greek migrants from Cyprus established the Orthodox parish of St. Nicolas in Pula in 1583, while Orthodox Montenegrins, who had migrated to the peninsular in September 1657, established the one in Peroj in 1784. Since the Orthodox archdiocese of Venice is united in organisation with the Holy See, the administrative parish functioning model is in essence similar to the catholic one. This also applies to registers, the matriculation of which started in 1784, the same year in which the parish of St. Spiridon in Peroj began its formal operation.
Keywords
Istria; the Orthodoxy; church; Venice; Peroj; Pula
Hrčak ID:
85475
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Publication date:
12.6.2012.
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