Zbornik Janković, Vol. IV No. 4, 2019.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.47325/zj.4.4.16
RELATION TO ORTHODOX CHURCHES IN EPARCHY OF SLAVONIJA DURING SOCIALISM (1945-1990).
Filip Škiljan
orcid.org/0000-0001-7979-1359
; Institut za migracije i narodnosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
Based on material from the Croatian National Archives, the author presents data on neglect and non-renewal of Serbian Orthodox churches in the Slavonic diocese (Donji Miholjac, Našice, Pozega, Orahovic, Slatina, Virovitica, Pakrac, Slavonski Brod, Nova Gradiska, Novska, Djakovo) in the time of socialism. The author concludes from a text created on the basis of original archival material from the Croatian State Archives (Commission for Relations with Religious Communities of NR / SR Croatia, fund no. 310) that some of the churches that were severely damaged in the Second World War by the Ustasha and the Germans, the communist authorities and the locals did not rebuild after World War II. In the post-war period, there were also many cases where local authorities made it difficult to rebuild certain buildings despite the fact that the Slavonic diocese was able to raise funds for their reconstruction. The author also deals with the relationship of local authorities to Orthodox priests in the Slavonic diocese
Keywords
Slavonian diocese; The Diocese of Pakrac; Serbian Orthodox Church; Slavonia; religious communities; Commission for Relations with Religious Communities of NR / SR Croatia
Hrčak ID:
242745
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Publication date:
20.8.2020.
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