Мисија архимандрита Нићифора Дучића у Цариграду и на Светој Гори 1882. године
The Mission of Archimandrite Ničifor Dučić in Constantinople and on Mount Athos in 1882

Summary/Abstract: In September and October 1882 Archimandrite Niđifor Dučić visited Constantinople and Mount Athos. His mission involved more than one task. In Monastery Chilandar, he was to persuade the Bulgarian elders to hand over the government of the monastery to the Serbian monks, although their number was rather small. In Constantinople, he was to submit a request for the "consecrated oil", the ointment indispensable for the sacred anointing rite, which the Serbian Church obtained from the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Besides, Dučić carried a notification letter from the administrator of the Metropolitanate of Serbia to the Patriarch, informing him of the deposition of Metropolitan Mihailo. Ducic completed his mission successfully: he brought to Belgrade the "consecrated oil"; the delivery of the notification letter to the Patriarch did not cause a deterioration of the relations between the Serbian state and the Patriarchate; and he managed to persuade the Chilandar brethren, made tractable by the financial difficulties under which they laboured, to accept, in return for some financial support, an agreement according to which the government of the monastery was to be tranferred to an archimandrite sent from Serbia. The conflict between the Serbian Church and State prevented the realization of this agreement.

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