Dajla Monastery

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The Dajla Monastery ( Croatian Samostan Dajla ) is a former monastery near Novigrad (Istria) in Croatia . In 2011 there was a heated dispute between the Vatican and the Croatian government and within the Catholic Church in Croatia over who was the legal owner of the monastery.

history

Partial view
The church
The seaside of the monastery

The monastery is said to have been built by Greek monks in the 5th and 6th centuries and taken over by the Benedictines in the 9th century . In the 13th century, the monks gave up the monastery, which then came into the possession of private Italians, who rebuilt it several times over the centuries (most recently in the style of French historicism ) and used it as a country villa. In 1835 the Benedictine abbey Praglia received the building on condition that it would take care of the education of the local population. From 1860 it was used as a monastery again until it was expropriated in 1948. After that it was used as an old people's home and poor house until 1989 and was then empty. In the 1990s, the Croatian government lifted the nationalization and awarded the monastery to the diocese of Poreč-Pula , on whose territory the now very dilapidated building is located.

Property dispute 2011

In 2011 the Italian Benedictines reclaimed the monastery and were hereby Pope Benedict XVI. supported. Since the diocese had already sold part of the property belonging to the monastery in order to solve urgent financial problems, the Pope ordered financial compensation, which the diocese to the Benedictines, in addition to the return of the remaining land and the building still in the possession of the diocese In July 2011 he sent Archbishop Santos Abril y Castelló to Poreč to enforce the handover.

The Bishop of the Diocese of Poreč-Pula, Ivan Milovan , made the dispute public and asked for political support, which he received from both Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and President Ivo Josipović . The Croatian government took the position that, on the basis of the Osimo Treaty signed by Yugoslavia and Italy, the Italian state must compensate the Italian Benedictines for the expropriation. She reversed the return of the monastery to the church. The Croatian Bishops' Conference, however, sided with the Vatican in the dispute. The disputes clouded relations between Croatia and the Vatican, which were previously considered very friendly.

On September 2, 2011, the Vatican filed a lawsuit with the Croatian Administrative Court against the state of Croatia.

In mid-October 2011, Pope Benedict XVI. Bishop Ivan Milovan with Dražen Kutleša a coadjutor aside, which was assessed as partial disempowerment of the bishop. In June 2012, Bishop Milovan announced his resignation after apparently having been asked to do so by Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone . Kutleša succeeded Milovan as Bishop of Poreč-Pula. In April 2013 the Croatian Supreme Administrative Court ruled that the "quasi-expropriation by [the] state" was unlawful and that the property was to be returned to the Diocese of Poreč-Pula and the Parish of Dajla.

In 2015, the Pula Regional Court confirmed the decision of the lower court ( Buje Municipal Court ) and dismissed the complaint by the Italian Benedictine abbey Praglia against the diocese of Poreč-Pula for compensation.

Web links

Commons : Dajla Monastery  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Darja Peitz Hlebec: ADAC Travel Guide plus Istria and Kvarner Golf , 2006, p. 20
  2. ^ Croatia: bishops stand behind the Vatican ; KAP message on Vatican Radio, October 21, 2011
  3. ↑ Vatican sues Republic of Croatia because of Dajla Monastery ; KAP report on kath.net from September 9, 2011.
  4. ↑ Vatican poslao biskupu Milovanu svećenika iz Mostara da “uvede red” (The Vatican sends Bishop Milovan a priest from Mostar to “keep order”); in: Glas Istre / Novi List, online edition, October 18, 2011
  5. ↑ Damir Kajin: Slučaj Dajla: Biskup Ivan Milovan podnosi ostavku ( Memento from January 21, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (Dajla case. Bishop Milovan resigns), Dalmacija News June 13, 2012.
  6. ^ Next stage in the dispute over the Istrian Dajla monastery ; KAP report on kath.net from April 13, 2013.
  7. ↑ Slučaj samostana Dajla priveden kraju: Talijanski benediktinci nemaju nikakva prava (The Dajla Monastery case is closed: The Italian Benedictines have no claim), index.hr, September 1, 2015

Coordinates: 45 ° 21 '4.4 "  N , 13 ° 32" 35.9 "  E