DEMANDS OF THE CROATIAN CATHOLIC CLERGY FOR UNIFICATION WITH THE ORTHODOX CHURCH DURING 1919

Ivo MISUR

mag. ing. mech. independent inspector. ZKU ''fra Filip Grabovac'', Petra Mišura 2, Vrlika, Croatia, ivo.misur@gmail.com

Abstract

The article discusses the efforts and attempts at unification between Roman Catholics and Orthodox in the territory of today's Croatia in the past. It also describes the individual dialogues and possible disputes based on period documents, which significantly influenced the development of the whole experiment. the article does not omit the individual personalities of the time who were most significantly involved in this process. The general description is completed on the socio-cultural background of the environment where these experiments took place. The author of the article does not forget to draw attention to the characteristics of individual experiments and their division into church-reform, political and folk-cultural nature.

Keywords

Catholic Church, union, Orthodoxy, ecumenism, unification of churches, Croatia

SUMMARY

After the First World War, group of Catholic priests in Croatia, required certain reforms of the Church. They were heterogenous group which consisted of several factions which published pamphlets in which they proposed changes mainly of church discipline. The focus of previous historiographical research has been on the demands for celibacy and the vernacular in the liturgy, while the ecumenical idea of ecclesial unity has been neglected. This paper will show that the reforms of church discipline were only an instrument that would facilitate the implementation of the ultimate goal - the union of Croatian Catholics with the Orthodox.

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