Review article
Freedom of Estabshing Parishes of the Archdiocese of Dubrovnik and the Dioceses of Ston and Trebinje-Mrkan in XVIII Century
Vinicije B. Lupis
; Institut društvenih znanosti “Ivo Pilar” Dibrovnik
Abstract
In the history of the Archdiocese of Dubrovnik, the eighteenth
century is exceptionally interesting due to the fact that the
archbishops of Dubrovnik were again the inhabitants of Dubrovnik,
and no longer strangers. Archbishop Rajmund Gallani/Jelić is one
of many people from Dubrovnik who worked in the Levant area.
His missionary work was related to Asia Minor, where he was a
titular archbishop of Ankara and worked closely with an Armenian
- Mekhitar, founder of the Armenian Catholic order. Parish of St. Nicholas at Dubravka (Mrcine) was founded in 1737 during the
archbishop Anđelo Franchi, and Parish of St. Nicholas at Ćilipi
in 1746. The northernmost parish of that-time Archdiocese of
Dubrovnik was founded in 1766, when the Senate (Consilium
Rogatorum) decided to join in the Konavle village Kuna and Stravča
and to found a parish. During the archbishop Nikola Puljizević
(1767-1777), former bishop of Nikopolj in Bulgaria, a chaplaincy
at Majkovi and Parish of St. Saviour at Mokošica were founded.
During the archbishop Grgur Lazzari/Lazarev (1777-1792), man
from Dubrovnik of Bulgarian descent, Parish Banići was founded.
During the eighteenth century, due to economic prosperity, new
parish churches were being renewed and built; rich middle class
people were striving, by their free will, to establish new parishes
and chaplaincies on the territory of the Republic of Dubrovnik.
In the area of the Diocese of Ston only two new parishes were
established during the eighteenth century, because, during the
two previous centuries, the process of defining the parishes
in accordance with a logical organization of principalities and
captaincies of the Republic of Dubrovnik was completed. The
bishop of Ston Frano Volanti, clergyman of Dubrovnik, gave the
synod of bishops in the Cathedral of St. Blaise in 1713, and
chose as his assistant the famous Jesuit Ardelio Dellabella. Two
years earlier, in 1711, he transferred the parish seat of Polje from
the Church of Our Lady of Lužine to the Church of Our Lady of
Luncijata, which was restored then too. On 15th July, 1732 he
transferred the parish seat Vručica from the Church of St. Cosmas
and Damian to the Church of Our Lady of Mercy. The bishop of
Ston, Hijacint Miljković, founded the Parish of St. Mary Magdalene
at Putnikovići /Monte Negro/ in 1749, and another bishop of Ston,
Pero Budmani, established the Parish of St. Michael at Viganj in
1761. The example of a never-realized process of establishing the
parish at Županje Selo in 1765, though approved by the Senate,
speaks in favour of pragmatism of the Republic of Dubrovnik and
its getting to the core of church matters. In the area of the Diocese
Trebinje-Mrkan, during the episcopate of Fr Anselmo Katić, bishop
of Trebinje-Mrkan, the parish Dubrave was divided by permission
of the Congregation into two parishes in 1763 – the parish of the
same name Dubrave and a new parish Hrasno. Economic recovery
after the political and economic crisis of the seventeenth century
and the growth of population in the Republic of Dubrovnik in
the eighteenth century enabled the formation of new parishes,
whose foundation had to be approved by the Small Council and Archbishop. The state took care of churches, convents and parish
houses and it systematically built and rebuilt them and procured
the liturgical items. The process of establishing parishes ended
in Russo-Montenegrin ravages in 1806 and long-time French
occupation.
Keywords
Archdiocese of Dubrovnik; Diocese of Ston; foundation of parishies
Hrčak ID:
137216
URI
Publication date:
30.3.2015.
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