Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/ydkx2c3vd9
Conversions from the Orthodox to the Roman Catholic Religion in the Period between 1941 and 1945 in the Požega District
Filip Škiljan
orcid.org/0000-0001-7979-1359
; Institut za migracije i narodnosti u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The author provides information on conversions from the Orthodox to the Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic religions in the Požega Archdeaconry in the period between 1941 and 1945. In the introductory section, the author provides information about the tensions between the Roman Catholic Church and the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the Independent State of Croatia as a country in the field of religious conversion during the second half of 1941. Following the introduction, the author deals with the statistical data regarding the number of applicants for conversion in the Požega Archdeaconry, based on lists kept at the Episcopal State Archives. The author in particular deals with mass religious conversions that took place during the autumn and winter of 1941/1942, which were conducted in the parishes of Skenderovci, Požeške Sesvete, Požega, Jakšić, Pleternica, Požeški Brestovac, and Ruševo. The third part of the paper deals with individual religious conversions; the conclusion is that the majority of individual religious conversions took place among ethnically and religiously mixed marriages, particularly in the Požega parish.
Keywords
World War II; religious conversions; Požega; Serbs; Orthodox religion
Hrčak ID:
192979
URI
Publication date:
17.1.2018.
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