DJELOVANJE I SURADNJA VRHBOSANSKOG NADBISKUPA JOSIPA STADLERA I DUBROVAČKOG BISKUPA JOSIPA MARČELIĆA TIJEKOM PREUSTROJA ZAVODA SV. JERONIMA U RIMU I SVETOJERONIMOVSKE AFERE
ACTIVITIES AND COOPERATION OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF VRHBOSNA, JOSIP STADLER, AND THE BISHOP OF DUBROVNIK, JOSIP MARČELIĆ, IN RELATION TO THE REORGANIZATION AND THE RUNNING OF ST. JEROME’S COLLEGE IN ROME DURING THE SO-CALLED „ST. JEROME’S AFFAIR“

Summary/Abstract: This paper, based on material that has recently become available from the Archives of the Diocese of Dubrovnik, analyzes the role of Vrhbosna Archbishop Josip Stadler and Dubrovnik Bishop Josip Grgur Marčelić in the broader context of the Croatian episcopate’s activities in reorganizing St. Jerome’s institutions in Rome into a modern seminary in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The paper also examines their efforts to preserve intact Croatian rights at the reorganized College of St. Jerome at the time of the so-called „St. Jerome affair of 1901/1902“, when the Principality of Montenegro, aided by the diplomacy of certain European powers, especially the Russian Empire and France, sought with limited success to truncate these rights. The paper draws particular attention to a topic that is largely neglected by historiographical works of the period, namely the matching and even close intertwining of the reorganization of St. Jerome’s institutions with the efforts of the Croatian episcopate to affirm the Old Church Slavonic liturgy. This is confirmed in correspondence between Archbishop Stadler and Bishop Marčelić.

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