Original scientific paper
The Franciscans of Požega as Promoters of the Church-Administrative Independence of Slavonia During the Turkish Time
Franjo Emanuel Hoško
Abstract
The Catholics in Požega during the Turkish power in the 17th century had given Franciscans of Bosnia Srebrena numerous of their sons: four of them were bishops. All of them, and especially Marin Ibrišimović (+1650), were engaged in trying to establish borders of bishops’ competence over Bosnian and Belgrade bishops, and were at the head of the movement for establishing an Independent Slavonian Franciscan Province, which were to develop from the part of Bosnia Srebrena. But, they were not unique in those fundamental questions of their church life and activities, as some of them supported the Bosnian, and the others Belgrade bishop; some of them were for undivided Bosnia Srebrena, and the others for dividing it. Only at the late 17th century were they of the same opinion regarding their approach to the Zagreb bishop, so Petar Nikolić, the first of Franciscans, who, in the name of the Zagreb bishop, led the church life in Slavonia, from 1658 to 1675. He was succeeded by two bishops of Požega, Luka Ibrišimović (1675-1698) and Mijo Domazetović (1702-1707), who without any doubt contributed to the process of integrating Slavonia into the middle part of the continental Croatia.
Keywords
Slavonia; Bosnia Srebrena; Požega; independent Slavonian Bishopric; Independent Franciscan Province
Hrčak ID:
96544
URI
Publication date:
15.11.2012.
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