Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/90836cdoqy
Religious Conversions from the Orthodox to the Roman-Catholic and the Greek-Catholic Religions during the Independent State of Croatia in the Area of the Bjelovar Archdeaconry
Filip Škiljan
orcid.org/0000-0001-7979-1359
; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies; Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In the paper, the author gives data on religious conversions from the Orthodox to the Greek-Catholic and the Roman-Catholic religions in the area of the Bjelovar Archdeaconry. Following introductory remarks on the attitude of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Serbian Orthodox Church towards the Roman-Catholic Church, the author gives data on the sufferings of the Serbs and their coercive emigration from the Bjelovar area in 1941. The central part of the text analyses statistical data on religious conversions from the Orthodox to the Roman-Catholic religion between 1941 and 1945, collected from the Archdiocesan Archives in Zagreb, and includes examples of these religious conversions. A special chapter tackles religious conversions from the Orthodox to the Greek-Catholic religion. No accurate dana exist about the number of religious conversions. Nevertheless, 2,235 submitted applications in correlation with the number of Orthodox inhabitants witness to the frequency thereof.
Keywords
Serbs; Orthodox religion; Independent State of Croatia; religious conversions; Bjelovar Archdeaconry; Greek-Catholic religion; Roman-Catholic Church
Hrčak ID:
192401
URI
Publication date:
10.12.2017.
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