Preliminary communication
Ecclesiastical state of affairs in the Archdiocese of Zadar in 1818
Josip Celić
; Zadar, Croatia
Abstract
Topic of this paper is a report submitted by capitulary vicar dr. Ivan Jurović to the Provincial Government on behalf of the ecclesiastical authorities. The government saw to determine the true state of affairs of worship, because its intention was to make a new systematization, restructuring, or abolishment in both ecclesial and secular field. The report is arranged according to the chapters (I - IV) with determined queries. The authorities were interested the most in the church property, the number of clergy, i.e., responses to the material issues of the questionnaire. The purposefulness of some components of the Church, such as monasteries, whosestaff was proposed for transfer or for abolition of the community. was observed within the same objective. The archdiocese of Zadar covered a large territorial scope that required pastoral effort of the secular priesthood and somewhere also the help of the monks. There were 64 parishes including cities of Zadar and Pag. The largest number of priests were in the parishes with the largest number of inhabitants, which does not mean that they were all pastors, but they lived together with their families and helped the local pastor. The number of inhabitants in Dalmatiaat that time is not negligible at all, especially if we observe it through the total number of inhabitants of other episcopal centers. Based on the report, the Archdiocese of Zadar numbered 27,857 persons, i.e., parishioners. Inhabitants of the archdiocese lived in different places, mostly in the city of Zadar, some on of the islands or settlements of rich area Ravni kotari that were directly oriented to the center of the diocese, whereas a smaller number of people resided in karst areas of the Zadar hinterland. The report was composed in Italian language, written in Latin script for secular purposes, and by the presentation of numerical data on the clergyof the Archdiocese of Zadar it belongs to a group of “static” historicaldemographic analyses. Its main characteristics are: immediacy, individuality and comprehensiveness. The same or similar reports, conditions of parishes and numerical data on the population have, until now, been unknown or neglected and thus have not been published.
Keywords
the Archdiocese of Zadar; Bishop’s Office; the Capitol; clergy; endowments; confraternity; 1818; ecclesiastical history; historical demography
Hrčak ID:
170588
URI
Publication date:
15.12.2016.
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