Eparchy Marča

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The Greek-Catholic eparchy Marča was the first uniate eparchy on today's territory of Croatia , also the first bishopric of the uniate bishops of today's diocese of Križevci .

history

After the Ottomans penetrated the Balkan Peninsula and the associated incorporation of today's territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina and parts of Croatia into the Ottoman Empire , the first groups of Orthodox Christians left the Ottoman sphere of influence between 1530 and 1540 in the areas of today's Croatia. Their home areas were Unca , Glamoč and Srb , located along the river basin of the Cetina . Part of the Orthodox Christians entered the Roman Catholic Church and assimilated with the local population. After the victory of the Croatian army at the Battle of Sissek in 1593, the population of eastern Slavonia began to settle in the areas of western Slavonia and Moslawina with the help and protection of Croatian companies . As a result, further, Orthodox sections of the population had settled in the area around Ivanić-Grad at the end of the 16th century . When further parts of the population of the Christian Orthodox denomination settled in larger groups , the Orthodox clergy, consisting of monks , settled with them . At the beginning of the 17th century there was a group of Orthodox monks with their Archimandrite and Bishop Simeon Vratanja in Marča. Your rights of residence were granted by Ferdinand III. guaranteed in the statute ( Satuta Valachorum ).

In 1611, the Zagreb bishop Petar Domitrović , who was himself of Orthodox descent, approached Bishop Simeon Vratanja and the local Orthodox princes (as representatives of the Orthodox population) with the proposal to enter into a union with the Roman Catholic Church. By approving the statute of Ferdinand III. and his subordinate officers of the military border, Simeon Vratanja and the Orthodox princes as so-called "border guards", Krajišnici , earned their living. On March 23, 1611 Simeon Vratanja was by Ferdinand III. worldly appointed episcopus . When the monks and Orthodox representatives of the people in Marča agreed to a union with Rome, they authorize Bishop Vratanja with his delegate and Greek Catholic pastor Martin Dubravić (from Ivanić-Grad) to go to Rome to strengthen the union. On November 19, 1611, Pope Paul V and his cardinals discussed a union of the Holy See with Bishop Simeon Vratanja and Pastor Martin Dubravić. On the same day, Cardinal Robert Belarmino issued a confirmation that Bishop Vratanja had entered into a union with the Roman Catholic Church. Thereupon Simeon Vratanja was appointed episcopus of the Greek Catholic faithful in the areas of today's Hungary , Slavonia , Croatia up to the borders of the Koruška .

At the request of Bishop Simeon Vratanja, Pope Paul V issued the decree ( Divinae Majestetis arbitrio ) on November 21, 1611 , with which canonically the establishment of the Greek-Catholic eparchy of Marča, which is under the protection of St. Archangel Michael was placed, was guaranteed. Bishop Simeon Vratanja was also appointed abbot of the Marča Monastery by Pope Paul V. For the construction of the eparchy of Marča, Pope Paul V made the land of a former Roman Catholic church, which was dedicated to All Saints' Day , available. At the beginning of 1612, Bishop Simeon Vratanja returned from Rome with Martin Dubravić. On January 10, 1612, Ferdinand III. orders all officers at the military frontier to provide Bishop Simeon with all assistance in his daily duties. He also called on the officers to exhort the Christians there to be obedient to their church leader. In the early days of the newly established eparchy under the direction of Simeon Vratanja and the support of the Zagreb bishop Petar Domitrović, the leadership of the eparchy of Marča remained stable. After the death of the bishop of Zagreb, his successors insisted more and more that the bishops of the Greek-Catholic eparchy Marča should only work in the position of vicars and subordinate them to the diocese of Zagreb . Thus the decline of the Marča eparchy was sealed.

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