Gomionica Monastery
Monastery of Gomionica
The Gomionica Monastery (Serbian Cyrillic: Манастир Гомионица) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located at the village of Kmećani, 42 kilometres west of Banja Luka, in the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The monastery is the spiritual centre of the region known as Zmijanje, and its church is dedicated to the Presentation of Mary. It was founded before 1536, though the exact date of its foundation is unknown. It was referred to as Zalužje in 16th-century sources, while its current name comes from a nearby river. In the second half of the 16th century, the abbot of the monastery was credited by the Ottomans for the peaceful attitude of the population of a wide area around Gomionica.[1] The monastery may have been abandoned, at least partially, at the end of the 17th century (after the Great Turkish War), and during the 1730s. The church was refurbished several times during the 18th and 19th centuries. Writer Petar Kočić attended the elementary school organised at the monastery. It was badly damaged in World War II, and its abbot Serafim Štrkić was murdered in 1941 by the Ustaše, Croatian fascists.[2]
After the war, Gomionica was turned into a nunnery. In 1953, the monastery was designated as a cultural monument of Yugoslavia, and in 2006, it was proclaimed a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The treasury of Gomionica contains icons created in the 16th to 19th centuries, as well as manuscripts and printed books created in the 14th to 17th centuries. A silver-gilt cross formerly owned by the monastery, made in 1640, is now in the collection of the University of London, which acquired it from the private collection of Thomas Gambier Parry.[2]
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| Ohrid Archbishopric |
- Metropolitanate of Skopje
- Eparchy of Prespa and Pelagonija
- Bregalnica
- Debar and Kičevo
- Polog and Kumanovo
- Veles and Povardarie
- Strumica
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| 1346–1463 |
- St. Joanikije II
- Sava IV
- St. Jefrem
- St. Spiridon
- Danilo III, Patriarch of Serbia
- Sava V
- Danilo IV
- St. Kirilo
- St. Nikon
- Teofan
- Nikodim II
- Arsenije II
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| since 1920 | |
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- Leontije Lambrović
- Agatanel
- Antim
- Melentije Pavlović
- Petar Jovanović
- Mihailo Jovanović
- Teodosije Mraović
- Inokentije Pavlović
- Dimitrije Pavlović
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| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
- Cathedral Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos
- Church of the Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel
- Church of the Holy Transfiguration
- Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Banja Luka
- Church of Saint George, Sopotnica
- Old St. Nicholas Church, Javorani
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| Croatia |
- St. Petka's Church, Banovci
- Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, Trpinja
- Church of St. Nicholas, Vukovar
- Church of Pentecost, Vinkovci
- Church of St. George, Kneževo
- Church of Assumption of Blessed Virgin, Negoslavci
- Church of Pentecost, Markušica
- Church of St. George, Bobota
- Church of St. Stephen, Borovo
- Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, Srijemske Laze
- Church of St. Peter and Paul, Bolman
- Church of St. Stefan Štiljanović, Karanac
- Church of St. Nicholas, Mirkovci
- Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, Gaboš
- Church of St. Nicholas, Jagodnjak
- Church of St. Demetrius, Dalj
- Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in Zagreb
- Church of St. George, Grubišno Polje
- Church of St. Nicholas, Karlovac
- Church of Nativity of the Virgin, Drežnica
- Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, Štikada
- Orthodox church of st. George, Varaždin
- Holy Annunciation Orthodox church, Dubrovnik
- Orthodox Church in Knin
- Church of St. Peter and Paul, Tepljuh
- San Spirodine Church, Peroj
- Church of St. Nicholas, Rijeka
- Church of St. Nicholas, Vrlika
- Orthodox church of Holy Salvation, Cetina
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| Other countries |
- Saints Constantine and Helen Serbian Orthodox Church, USA
- Trinity Chapel Complex, USA
- Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, Jackson, USA
- Sts. Cyril and Methodius Church, Slovenia
- Serbian Church (Arad), Romania
- St. Sava Church, Paris, France
- Church of the Holy Prince Lazar, United Kingdom
- Serbian Orthodox Church, Halifax, United Kingdom
- St. Nicholas, West Wycombe, United Kingdom
- Saint Spyridon Church, Trieste, Italy
- Annunciation Church, Szentendre, Hungary
- Transfiguration Church, Szentendre, Hungary
- Church of Our Lady, Göteborg, Sweden
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| Notes | * indicate churches in Kosovo, which is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Kosovo. |
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Coordinates: 44°43′47″N 16°54′37″E / 44.729722°N 16.910278°E / 44.729722; 16.910278