ПАРОХИЈСКА СЛУЖБА СВЕШТЕНИКА СВЕТОЗАРА С. ТРЛАЈИЋА У ТЕМИШВАРСКОЈ ЕПАРХИЈИ (1909–1927)
PAROCHIAL SERVICE OF PRIEST SVETOZAR S. TRLAJIĆ IN THE TIMIȘOARA EPARCHY (1909–1927)

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the parochial service of Priest Svetozar S. Trlajić in Pečka near Arad and in Bašaid near Kikinda. The period of Trlajić’s service encompasses his life and pastoral work during the last decade of the existence of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, the period of the First World War, as well as the time of the proclamation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and the restoration of the Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate. As a protégé of the Bishop of Timișoara, Dr Georgije Letić, Svetozar Trlajić completed his studies at the Karlovci Theological Seminary and served as a parish priest in the parishes of the Timișoara Eparchy, where he contributed to the religious and social life of Orthodox Serbs. While serving in Pečka, he became a widower. As a parish priest in Bašaid, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade, after which he was appointed rapporteur and chief secretary of the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church. After taking monastic vows, he became the abbot (hegumen) of the Krušedol Monastery on Fruška Gora, then an auxiliary Bishop of Srem, and subsequently the Bishop of Gornji Karlovac in the territory of Croatia. During the Second World War and the proclamation of the Independent State of Croatia, he refused to relocate to Serbia and suffered a martyr’s death in 1941.

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