Metropolitanate of Dabar and Bosnia

Metropolitanate of Dabar and Bosnia
Cathedral of the Nativity of the Theotokos, Sarajevo
Location
Territorycentral and central-eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina
HeadquartersSarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Information
DenominationEastern Orthodox
Sui iuris churchSerbian Orthodox Church
Established1219
CathedralCathedral of the Nativity of the Theotokos, Sarajevo
LanguageChurch Slavonic, Serbian
Current leadership
BishopHrizostom Jević
Map
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Metropolitanate of Dabar and Bosnia

The Metropolitanate of Dabar and Bosnia (Serbian: Митрополија дабробосанска, romanized: Mitropolija dabrobosanska) is a metropolitan diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church covering central and central-eastern regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The episcopal see is located at the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Theotokos, Sarajevo. Its headquarters and bishop's residence are also in Sarajevo.

History

14th-century fresco of the founders of Dobrun Monastery

The medieval Eparchy of Dabar was founded in 1219 by the first Serbian archbishop, Saint Sava. The seat of bishops of Dabar was in the Banja Monastery near Priboj, Serbia. Eparchy of Dabar had jurisdiction over the region of lower Lim and middle Drina on the borders with medieval Bosnia.

In 1557, Serbian Patriarchate of Peć was restored and the Eparchy of Dabar and Bosnia was returned to its jurisdiction, with its bishops of holding the honorary title of metropolitan. In 1766, when the autocephalous Serbian Patriarchate of Peć was abolished, Eparchy of Dabar and Bosnia and all other Serbian eparchies under Ottoman rule came under the jurisdiction of Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Bishop of Dabar and Bosnia kept his honorary title of metropolitan, as was also the custom in the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The seat of metropolitan was in Sarajevo.

Since the 1878 campaign, Bosnia and Herzegovina was ruled by Austria-Hungary, but under the Convention of 1880 all Eastern Orthodox eparchies remained under ecclesiastical jurisdiction of Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. After World War I and the creation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a council of Eastern Orthodox bishops in Bosnia and Herzegovina unanimously decided to unite with other Serbian ecclesiastical provinces to form the unified Serbian Orthodox Church, a process completed in 1920.

List of bishops

Notable monasteries

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Formerly unofficially known as the Metropolitanate of Sarajevo (Сарајевска митрополија).

References

  1. ↑ Поповић 1912, p. 624, 627.
  2. ↑ Јањић 2011, p. 133-148.
  3. ↑ Sotirović 2011, pp. 143–169.
  4. ↑ Kašić 1972, pp. 53–54.
  5. ↑ Kiminas 2009, pp. 22, 28.
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  11. 1 2 Marjanović 1998, p. 156.
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