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Archives of the Serbian Orthodox Church

Coordinates: 44°49′01″N 20°27′05″E / 44.81695°N 20.45143°E / 44.81695; 20.45143
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Archive of the Serbian Orthodox Church
Архив Српске православне цркве (Serbian)
Archives building
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44°49′01″N 20°27′05″E / 44.81695°N 20.45143°E / 44.81695; 20.45143
LocationKralja Petra Street 2, Belgrade, Serbia
Typecentral church archives
Established1920 Edit this on Wikidata
Other information
DirectorRadovan Pilipović[1]
Parent organizationSerbian Orthodox Church
WebsiteOfficial website

The Archives of the Serbian Orthodox Church (Serbian: Архив Српске православне цркве, romanized: Arhiv Srpske pravoslavne crkve)[2] is the central repository archives of the Serbian Orthodox Church, located in Belgrade, Serbia.

History

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The archivse developed on the foundations of the central archives of the Metropolitanate of Belgrade after the 1920 reunification of the Patriarchate of Karlovci in the Habsburg monarchy, the Metropolitanate of Belgrade in the Kingdom of Serbia, and the Metropolitanate of Montenegro in the Principality of Montenegro into single Serbian Orthodox Church within the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.[citation needed]

The archives primarily contain important documents from the early 19th century onwards crucial for understanding the ecclesiastical and secular history.[3] The archives receive support in their work from the Ministry of Culture and the Directorate for Cooperation with Churches and Religious Communities.[4] The archives in their current form of an independent institution were developed only in 2007 and the agreement between the Church with the Ministry of Culture and the State Archives of Serbia which ensured personnel and appropriate staff to manage archival work missing within the church hierarchy.[5]

The archival materials were initially kept at the residence of the Archbishop of Serbia and Metropolitan of Belgrade until 1935 when they were transferred to Kralja Petra I Street 5.[5] The central facilities of the archive at the Kralja Petra Street in Belgrade hold just a fraction of the total collection of the archives, which spans two to three kilometres in length.[6] Remaining archival collection was moved from the Building of the Patriarchate to the gallery of the St. Mark's Church in 1989.[6] The unprofessional transport of the archives led to many items being scattered, and some documents disappeared without a trace.[5] For nearly two and a half decades, the valuable archive, which provides insights into the ecclesiastical, social, demographic, diplomatic, and political history of modern Serbia and Serb people in neighbouring countries, remained in dust, neglected and uncared for motivating state institutions to get involved.[5] The formal agreement was signed on 14 December 2007 with Serbian Orthodox Church represented by the Metropolitan Bishop of Montenegro and the Littoral Amfilohije Radović and state institutions by the Minister of Culture, Vojislav Brajović, and the director of the State Archives of Serbia, Miroslav Perišić.[5] In 2019, this material was moved from the St. Mark's Church to the newly reconstructed Svetosavski dom building in Zemun, building built between 1907 and 1909 and listed as a cultural monument in its own rights.[3]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "АРХИВ СРПСКЕ ПРАВОСЛАВНЕ ЦРКВЕ". Serbian Orthodox Church. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  2. ^ Bergholz, Max (2016). Violence as a Generative Force Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. p. XV. doi:10.7591/9781501705885. ISBN 9781501705885.
  3. ^ a b Aleksandar Apostolovski (20 April 2019). "Okončana seoba arhivske građe SPC". Politika. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  4. ^ "Patrijarh osveštao nove prostorije Arhiva SPC". Blic. 19 April 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d e Pilipović, Radovan (2015). "PRINCIP SLOBODNE PROVENIJENCIJE U SREÐIVANJU FONDOVA ARHIVA SPC-PRIMJER PRIMJENE NA FONDU „SVETI ARHIJEREJSKI SINOD (1920-1941)"" [THE PRINCIPLE OF LIBERAL PROVENANCE IN SYSTEMATISING THE FONDS OF THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH ARCHIVES – APPLIED ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE FOND OF “THE HOLY SYNOD (1920–1941)“]. Glasnik arhiva i Arhivističkog udruženja Bosne i Hercegovine (45): 36–44.
  6. ^ a b "Arhiv SPC - crkvena građa kao duhovna vertikala". Radio Television of Vojvodina. 30 March 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
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