Macedonian Ecclesiastical Issue in the Period between 1945 and 1946 (Between Autonomy and Autocephaly) Cover Image
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Makedonsko crkveno pitanje 1945-1946. godine (između autonomije i autokefalnosti)
Macedonian Ecclesiastical Issue in the Period between 1945 and 1946 (Between Autonomy and Autocephaly)

Author(s): Borče Ilievski
Subject(s): Governance, Political history, Politics and religion, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Eastern Orthodoxy, History of Religion
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: Macedonian Ecclesiastical Issue; Serbian Orthodox Church; Initiative Board for organizing the Orthodox Church in Macedonia;
Summary/Abstract: We may search the genesis of the issue concerning the status of the Orthodox Church in Macedonia in the fight of the Balkan countries and churches for their dominance in Macedonia that was under Ottoman power, in the second half of the XIX and beginning of XX century. In fact, Macedonian Ecclesiastical Issue presents an integral part of the Macedonian national issues. Three factors were of main importance for solving this issue, in the first years after the foundation of Socialistic Yugoslavia, but also during the following two decades. Republic and federal authorities, Serbian Orthodox Church and Macedonian church authorities, organized within the Initiative Board for organizing the Orthodox Church in Macedonia. Priesthood’s demands were reflected in the resolutions that were adopted during the Assembly that was held in May 1945 and during the Conference held in May 1946. In a short period of time, main premises of the resolutions, being influenced by the actual political circumstances evolve from demands for autocephaly to autonomous rights for the Macedonian eparchies. The demands, set in this manner shall have influence on determining the status of the Macedonian Orthodox Church in years 1958 and 1967.

  • Page Range: 579-604
  • Page Count: 26
  • Publication Year: 2016
  • Language: Serbian