Slovak Evangelical Church AB in Serbia
The Slovak Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Serbia (Slovak: Slovenská evanjelická augsburského vyznania cirkev v Srbsku, abbreviated: SEAVC) is a Lutheran church in Serbia. Around 40,000 parishioners belong to this largest Protestant church in the former Yugoslavia. They are organized in 27 parishes and are looked after by 20 pastors.
Most of the members live in Vojvodina , an autonomous province in the Republic of Serbia north of the Sava and Danube ; its seat is accordingly in Novi Sad . Until the founding of Yugoslavia, the congregations belonged to the Lutheran Church in Hungary . The Slovak language is most widespread in community life.
history
The history of Protestantism in this region begins in the first half of the 18th century, when Protestant Slovaks from the area around the Tatra Mountains in former Upper Hungary settled on the southern border of the Habsburg Empire, in the hope that they would be less exposed to the pressure of the Counter-Reformation be. Their first arrival was in 1720, and they arrived in stages during the 18th and early 19th centuries. Immediately after their arrival they organized themselves in the church, mainly after the patent of tolerance was issued in 1781.
In the 18th century, the Hungarian and German Lutherans began to settle in the fertile areas on the Danube. All together with the Slovak Lutherans were under the jurisdiction of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary until the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy ( Austria-Hungary ) at the end of the First World War .
The Slovak Evangelical Church AB in Serbia was founded in 1921 by Slovak Christians who previously belonged to the Evangelical Church of Hungary and whose settlement area was separated from their ancestors' land after the First World War and assigned to the newly founded Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes - SHS ( Yugoslav State ) has been. The founding synod was in Stara Pazova .
In 2007 the German Evangelical Church AB in Serbia was re-established with the parish in Zemun , Belgrade . As part of the Slovak Evangelical Church AB in Serbia, it was registered in 2009 under the name “German Seniorat of the Slovak Evangelical Church AB in Serbia - German Evangelical Church Community Belgrade”.
organization
The church is divided into four seniorates (deaneries) Báčsky ( Batschka ), Banátsky ( Banat ) and Sriemsky ( Syrmia ) and the German seniorate, each headed and administered by a senior (deaner). The church has 27 parishes and 14 branches (subsidiary parishes) in its geographically relatively widespread diocese. There are currently 20 pastors, including four female pastors, and four senior vicars, all of whom are led and administered by the bishop; this is currently Jaroslav Javorník . The highest administrative and legislative authority is the Synod , which meets once a year.
The pastors of the Slovak Evangelical Church AB in Serbia are trained at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the Comenius University in Bratislava , Slovakia, together with students from the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia .
Relations with other churches and organizations
The Slovak Evangelical Church AB in Serbia maintains partnerships with the Evangelical Church AB in Slovakia , the Evangelical Church AB in Slovenia , the Evangelical Church in Germany and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States of America.
Since 1963 the church has been a member of the World Council of Churches as well as the Conference of European Churches , the Lutheran World Federation and the Community of Evangelical Churches in Europe . It is also a partner church of the Gustav-Adolf-Werk .
Publication and mass media
The church publishes its monthly Evanjelický hlásnik (Evangelical Messenger) in approx. 2,650 copies, its annual Ročenka in approx. 1,500 copies, and its own Evanjelický kalendár calendar with a circulation of approx. 17,000. On Vojvodina radio there is a radio program Pohľady k výšinám (“Views of the Heights”), which is broadcast once a week.
See also
literature
Web links
- Official website
- 2010 World Lutheran Membership Details. (pdf, 137 kB) In: Lutheran World Information 1/2011. February 18, 2011, p. 10 , archived from the original on September 26, 2011 (English).
- Slovak Evangelical Christian Church AB in Serbia and Montenegro. World Council of Churches
- Slovak Evangelical Church AB Tourist Organization of the City of Novi Sad, archived from the original on April 14, 2019 (to the Church in Novi Sad).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Slovak Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Serbia. The Lutheran World Federation, September 13, 2013, accessed July 23, 2020 .
- ^ A b c Slovak Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovak Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Serbia & Montenegro. In: oikoumene.org. February 12, 2013, accessed January 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Војислав Ананић (Vojislav Ananić): Досељавање народа у Војводину. In: Poreklo.rs. February 19, 2014, accessed January 21, 2019 (Serbian).
- ↑ Cirkevné referendum v Kulpíne. In: kulpin.net. May 12, 2012, accessed January 21, 2019 (Slovak).
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^ Ten years of the German Evangelical Church Community in Belgrade. German Evangelical Church Congregation Belgrade, December 3, 2017, accessed on January 21, 2019 . Zorica Kuburić: Verske zajednice u Srbiji i verska distanca. (pdf, 2.7 MB) Novi Sad, 2010, accessed on January 21, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d Радомир Ракић (Radomir Rakić): СЕАВЦ у Србији - SEAVC v Srbsku. In: Serbian Orthodox Church. November 17, 2016, accessed January 20, 2019 (Serbian).