Образовно-просветитељски трагови Исаије Новаковића
Tracing the educational and enlightening work of Isaija Novaković

Summary/Abstract: Isaija Novaković (1715 – between 1791–1797), took vows as a monk at Orahovica monastery (Slavonia), disciple of the Gymnasium and Faculty of Theology in Pakrac, student of philosophy and theology at Kiev Academy (during the 1750’s), magister of the said schools in Pakrac, principal of the Gymnasium in Karlovac, appointed as chaplain of Serbian Orthodox soldiersof Gradiška regiment near the end of the Seven Years’ War, only to join theclergy of the Eparchy of Buda (in 1762). Its bishop Dionisije Novaković placedhim in the nearby Serbian Kovin monastery (Ráckeve, on the Danube islandof Csepel), to await the opening of a higher theological-secular school and his subsequent transfer there. Following the demise of the bishop’s plan, Isaija Novaković became a parish priest in Komoran and in the vicinity of Buda, anda member of the eparchy’s consistory; was promoted as the abbot of Kovin monastery upon the decease of the archimandrite Stefanović, conducted the process of conferring the status of a parish on the Kovin monastery (in 1776) and was transferred to the monastery of Grabovac (Hungarian Baranya). As a clergyman/confessor during the periods of the Great Fast, Isaija Novaković traversed the upper and lower parts of the eparchy (the counties of Stolni Beograd, Tolna, Pest), Buda, Pest and neighbouring places. He taught Russian Church Slavonic and Latin, secular and theological subjects, trained the clerical-teaching novices, preached and instructed the people, but there is a dearth of information about his eclectic work, and he has seldom beencited in historiography to date.

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