Gregory of Nin

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The monumental statue of Gregory of Nin in Split , made by Ivan Meštrović .

Gregory of Nin ( Croatian Grgur Ninski ) was about 900 to 929 the bishop of Nin ( Latin Aenona ) and chancellor of the medieval Croatian kingdom . In the Croatian national historiography of the 19th century, he was often assigned a role as defender of worship in the Slavic language and the Glagolitic script , but there are no references to this in the traditional sources, in particular the acts of the synods of 925 and 928.

Life

The monument to Gregory of Nin, the alleged defender of the Glagolitic script , on the Glagolitic avenue leading from Roč to Hum .

When Tomislav was appointed king in 923 , Bishop Gregory was already one of the leading representatives of the clergy in Croatia. At the Council of Split in 925 he claimed the title of episcopus chroatorum . At the synods of 925 and 928, negotiations were primarily focused on the reorganization of the ecclesiastical province of Dalmatia , which had passed from the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Constantinople to the jurisdiction of the Roman Pope a few years earlier . The diocese of Nin was the only diocese founded in post-ancient times. The service in the Slavic language was only marginally an issue at the two synods.

At the second synod from the year 928, which also met in Split, the Nine diocese was dissolved and Gregory of Nin was assigned the diocese of Skradin . Gregory of Nin also lost the dispute over the title of Primate of Dalmatia ( Primate Dalmatiae ), which was granted to the diocese of Split as the successor to the diocese of Salona .

Monuments

The left big toe of the monument in Split.

Three bronze statues were erected in honor of Gregory of Nin, all of which were made by the Croatian sculptor Ivan Meštrović . The first monument was donated to the city of Varaždin on September 20, 1931 , the second, somewhat larger and more monumental, is in Split. Many visitors to Split touch the left big toe of this almost 10 m high monument, which, according to a legend, hopes for good luck and health. A smaller replica of the statue was inaugurated on September 10, 1969 in Nin in honor of the nine hundredth anniversary of the bull of the Croatian King Petar Krešimir IV. Near the church of St. Anselm . In this bull our sea ( mare nostrum ) was mentioned for the first time , which many historians consider to be evidence of Croatian rule over both land and sea.

literature

  • Ljubo Karaman: O Grguru Ninskom i Meštrovićevu spomeniku u Splitu . Split 1929.
  • Peter Bartl: Grgur Ninski , in: Biographical Lexicon for the History of Southeast Europe . Vol. 2. Munich 1976, p. 87 f.

Web links

Commons : Gregory von Nin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rudolf Grulich: The religious communities in the former Yugoslavia . In: Dunja Melčić (Ed.): The Yugoslavia War: Handbook on Prehistory, Course and Consequences . VS Verlag, 2007, ISBN 3-531-33219-8 , pp. 236-237 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Joachim Bahlcke : Hungarian Episcopate and Austrian Monarchy . Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-515-08764-8 , pp. 55-56 .
  3. ↑ Aleksandar Jakir: Dalmatia between the world wars . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1999, ISBN 3-486-56447-1 , p. 392-393 .
personal data
SURNAME Gregory of Nin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grgur Ninski
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Nin
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century
DATE OF DEATH 10th century