ПОПИС СВЕШТЕНСТВА ВРШАЧКЕ ЕПАРХИЈЕ 1797. ГОДИНЕ
LIST OF THE CLERGY OF THE VRŠAC EPARCHY IN 1797

Summary/Abstract: The Eparchy of Vršac was established in 1481, with its seat located in the Mesić Monastery. It is recorded that the first bishop was Partenije, who came to Banat from Mount Athos, from the Hilandar Monastery. Due to Ottoman incursions in the 17th and 18th centuries, the seat of the bishopric was moved to Caransebeș (in present-day Romania). In the third decade of the 18th century, the eparchy was returned to Vršac, where the construction of the cathedral church and the episcopal residence began. In 1865, the Banat Romanians withdrew from the jurisdiction of the Karlovci Metropolitanate and, from the eastern parts of the Vršac and Timișoara eparchies, formed a separate Romanian Orthodox—Caransebeș Eparchy, which became part of the newly established Sibiu Metropolitanate. After the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1918), the estab- lishment of the state border with Romania (1919), and the proclamation of the unified Serbian Patriarchate (1920), the issue of reorganizing hierarchical relations in the Yugoslav part of Banat was raised. With the adoption of the first Constitution of the Serbian Orthodox Church (1931), the parts of the Vršac and Timișoara eparchies within Yugoslavia were unified, thereby creating the present-day Banat Eparchy. A description of the Vršac Eparchy from 1797 was found in the Archives of the Metropolitanate of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Sremski Karlovci, on the basis of which a list of its clergy was compiled. The eparchy was divided into six protopresbyterates: Vršac, Caransebeș, Lugoj, Mehadia, Bela Crkva–Palanka, and Varadia. Within the administrative system of the Kingdom of Hungary, these protopresbyterates extended over the territories of the counties of Timiș, Torontal, and Caraș, as well as the Wallachian-Illyrian Regiment, and partly over the territory of the German-Banat Regiment.

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