Original scientific paper
The Reform Movements and Old Catholicism in Dalmatia
Daniel Patafta
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Although the prehistory of the Reform movement is connected
with Niko Petrić and his 1917 brochure Rane u Katoličkoj Crkvi,
the movement which started at the beginning of 1919 did not
have any echo in Dalmatia, except in two minor cases. Among
the Reform movements we have to mention Narodna crkva of
Božo Milošević, whose movement started in Dalmatia, with little
success, and which later expanded on the territory of the Zagreb
Archdiocese. The movement had completely disappeared in 1921.
The Croatian Old Catholic Church had some successes in Croatia
and Slavonia, and then in Bosnia and Vojvodina. But, of all the
Catholics in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, it had the least success
amongst the Catholics in Dalmatia. Specific political and social
circumstances and predominant status of the Catholic Church
had big influence on the weak success of spreading of the Old
Catholicism in Dalmatia. There had been established new Old
Catholic parishes and church communities, of which the biggest
community was in Split where the parish priest was Niko
Petrić. Apart from minor successes in rural areas and in Split and
Šibenik, the Croatian Old Catholic Church did not achieve some
major success in Dalmatia. After the Second World War none of
the Old Catholic communities in Dalmatia will be renewed.
Keywords
Dalmatia; Niko Petrić; „Rane u Katoličkoj Crkvi”; Božo Milošević; „People’s Church”; Old Catholicism; Old Catholic movement in Dalmatia
Hrčak ID:
206549
URI
Publication date:
10.10.2018.
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