MODELS FOR THE LEGAL PROTECTION OF THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH’S DIOCESE OF RAŠKA AND PRIZREN IN KOSOVO AND METOHIA
MODELS FOR THE LEGAL PROTECTION OF THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH’S DIOCESE OF RAŠKA AND PRIZREN IN KOSOVO AND METOHIA
Author(s): Velibor DžomićSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Museology & Heritage Studies, History of Church(es), International Law, Eastern Orthodoxy, Sociology of Law
Published by: Матица српска
Keywords: Serbian Orthodox Church; Diocese of Raška and Prizren; Republic of Serbia; Albanians; International Community; negotiations; models of legal protection;
Summary/Abstract: The Diocese of Raška and Prizren of the Serbian Orthodox Church is the inheritor of a thousand-year-long canonical jurisdiction in the entire territory of Kosovo and Metohia. Since 1999, its position has been unlike any other recorded in its millennial history. Over the past years the matter, formulated as the need for the legal protection of cultural heritage, i.e. “the monasteries and churches” in Kosovo and Metohia, has been raised during negotiations between representatives of the Republic of Serbia and the Temporary Institutions of Self-Government in Priština held in Brussels and mediated by the European Union. This paper analyzes the hitherto applied legal protection models, known as the Jerusalem, Constantinople, Mount Athos and Vatican models, as well as the so-called extraterritorial model.
Journal: Synaxa – Matica Srpska International Journal for Social Sciences, Arts, and Culture
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 6-7
- Page Range: 51-64
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English
