Simeon Vratanja
Simeon Vratanja († 1630 ) was the first bishop of the historic eparchy Marča and founder of the Church Union of Križevci .
Childhood and youth
About the childhood and youth of Simeon Vratanyas probably no precise information can be found, transmitted or survived. Historically, Vratanja grew in the area of Southeast Europe , also known as the Balkans , in the 16th and 17th centuries. Century on what was part of the Ottoman Empire .
Priest and bishop
About the ecclesiastical career Vratanjas, whose name was real name is Sime Vretanjić, have received biographical sources indicate that he as an Orthodox priest in the area of today's Slavonia , under Turkish rule pastoral worked. Whether Vratanja came from the Hrmnja monastery, which was located along the rivers Una and Unac , remains historically speculative. Vratanja probably came from the Remete monastery near Orahovica , on the territory of the Croatian Prigorje . Simeon Vratanja was appointed Vladika for the Orthodox Christians in the territories of Hungary , Croatia and Slavonia by the Eparchen Kozma in Đur on October 30, 1607. In order to emphasize his ecclesiastical position, which at the same time brought legal and even political prestige among the Orthodox Christians, Vratanja went to Peć to see Patriarch Jovan Kantula II. - Sokolović , the patriarch of the historically important Serbian Patriarchate of Peć and contacts to the Roman- Catholic Church used to
After the defeat of the Ottomans in the Battle of Sissek ( Sisak ), uprisings flared up among the Orthodox population in Ottoman territory. The military border posts of the Ottoman Empire were predominantly made up of Orthodox Christians, as soldiers or so-called military farmers . In the Croatian territories under Habsburg , along the Croatian military border , the military commanders Ferdinand I. Herberstein , Ivan Lenković and Ban Ivan Drasković tried to get the Orthodox Christians on their side. The project was successful and around 60,000 Orthodox Christians, commonly referred to as " Wallachians ", settled in the Varaždin Generalate , among them Simeon Vratanja. The Bishop of Zagreb, Petar Domitrović , himself the son of Orthodox parents from Oštrc , recognized the need to ensure pastoral care for Orthodox Christians. Domitrović commissioned Martin Dubravić, who was a Catholic pastor from Ivanić and also came from an Orthodox family, to deal with this matter . Dubravić turned to Simeon Vratanja in the Generalate of Varaždin, who joined in the effort to provide appropriate pastoral care, which Vratanja then took over and did not oppose a union with the Church of Rome.
In the spring of 1611 Simeon Vratanja was confirmed secularly by Ferdinand I as bishop. Before the ecclesiastical union could be completed, Vratanja stayed with Dubravić at the apostolic nuncio at the Viennese court. There Vratanja and his companion Dubravić received a letter on September 10, 1611, in which Vratanja was confirmed as bishop for the Christians of the Byzantine rite. In November 1611 Simeon Vratanja and Martin Dubravić reached Rome . The question of the lawful consecration of Vratanyas followed. Although the Roman Catholic Church fully recognizes the Orthodox Sacrament of Orders, Simeon Vratanja was re-ordained bishop by Cardinal Robert Bellarmine according to the Latin rite .
In the period that followed it became common for the next four successors of Vratanja to receive episcopal ordination in the Eparchy of Peć, according to the local rite in Church Slavonic liturgy and to be confirmed in Rome by the respective Pope as bishop for the United Christians. The appointment of Vratanja by Pope Paul V took place on November 21, 1611. In addition, the Pope Vratanja issued the Apostolic Constitution "Ad perpetuam rei memoriam". In this the establishment of the Eparchy Marča was canonically confirmed, Vratanja was confirmed as ecclesiastically sovereign bishop of the Eastern Rite and the ecclesiastical territory of the eparchy was legally determined.
After his return from Rome in 1612, Simeon Vratanja had the Marča Eparchy built on the Catholic church ruins of All Saints' Day , between Ivanić-Grad and Čazma . In addition, monks had settled in the eparchy who helped with pastoral tasks. Vratanja dedicated the eparchy to the Archangel Michael . In addition to the ecclesiastical, the eparchy also had a political value. Vratanja had this status confirmed ecclesiastically, he turned to the Bishop of Zagreb, Petar Domitrović, with whom he was friends. On February 16, 1618, a deed of donation was issued by Domitrović , which Vratanja Marča approved.
Simeon Vratanja resided in the Marča eparchy until his death in 1630.
literature
- Joachim Bahlcke: Hungarian Episcopate and Austrian Monarchy. From a partnership to confrontation (1686–1790) , p. 96, Steiner, 2005, ISBN 3-515-08764-8
See also
Web links
- Janko Šimrak , [1] (Croatian, PDF)
- Janko Šimrak , [2] (Croatian, PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ivan Andric Position of the Patriarchate in the Ottoman Empire from 1557 to 1690
- ↑ Peter Bartl, Munich "Ratzen" and "Albanser" Turkish struggle as an integration factor Jovan Kantula II. P. 142
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vratanja, Simeon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sime Vretanjić |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bishop of Križevci (Greek Catholic Church) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1630 |
| Place of death | Čazma , Ivanić-Grad Croatia |