Eparchy of Banja Luka
| Eparchy of Banja Luka | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Territory | North-western parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Headquarters | Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Eastern Orthodox |
| Sui iuris church | Serbian Orthodox Church |
| Established | 1900 |
| Language |
Church Slavonic Serbian |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop | Jefrem Milutinović |
| Map | |
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The Eparchy of Banja Luka (Serbian: Епархија бањалучка) is an eparchy (diocese) of the Serbian Orthodox Church with its seat in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has jurisdiction over the north-western regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
History
Until 1900, territory of this eparchy belonged to the Eastern Orthodox Metropolitanate of Dabar and Bosnia, which in turn was under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Upon the request of the Eastern Orthodox Serbs of this region, new Eparchy of Banja Luka was created in that year, with seat in the city of Banja Luka. Bishop of Banja Luka was granted with honorary title of Metropolitan, as was the custom in Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.[1]
In 1918, all Orthodox bishops in Bosnia and Herzegovina reached a unanimous decision to join with other Serbian ecclesiastical provinces into united Serbian Orthodox Church. Arrangements with the Ecumenical Patriarchate were made, and the canonical process of unification was completed in 1920.[2] Since then, Eparchy of Banja Luka has been part of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Heads
| Picture | Name | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|
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| Evgenije Letica | 1901-1907 | ||
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Vasilije Popović | 1908–1938 | |
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Platon Jovanović | 1940–1941 | |
| Vasilije Kostić | 1947—1961 | ||
| Andrej Frušić | 1961—1980 | ||
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Jefrem Milutinović | 1980—present | |
Monasteries
See also
- Eastern Orthodoxy in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- List of the Eparchies of the Serbian Orthodox Church
References
- ↑ Kašić 1965, pp. 44.
- ↑ Kiminas 2009, pp. 22, 28.
Bibliography
- Kašić, Dušan, ed. (1965). Serbian Orthodox Church: Its past and present. 1. Belgrade: Serbian Orthodox Church.
- Вуковић, Сава (1996). Српски јерарси од деветог до двадесетог века (Serbian Hierarchs from the 9th to the 20th Century). Евро, Унирекс, Каленић.
- Bataković, Dušan T. (1996). The Serbs of Bosnia & Herzegovina: History and Politics. Dialogue Association.
- Mileusnić, Slobodan (1997). Spiritual Genocide: A survey of destroyed, damaged and desecrated churches, monasteries and other church buildings during the war 1991-1995 (1997). Belgrade: Museum of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
- Ćirković, Sima (2004). The Serbs. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
- Kiminas, Demetrius (2009). The Ecumenical Patriarchate: A History of Its Metropolitanates with Annotated Hierarch Catalogs. Wildside Press LLC.