Catholic Serbs (“Roman Catholic Serbs”) are ethnic Serbs who converted to Catholicism . In terms of language and customs, they differ from Croats who speak a closely related language , however, there is currently a tendency to classify Catholic Serbs as Croats on a religious basis . Most Serb believers belong to the Serbian Orthodox Church .
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History
Catholic Serbs are made up of several small groups - Shoks (“papishtans” [1] ), Bunevites , Karashevtsy , “Latins” (in Turkey). There is also a group of Catholic Serbs in Dalmatia [2] (in particular, in Dubrovnik).
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Shoks (one of the groups of Catholic Serbs) converted to Orthodoxy. [3]
Since the Middle Ages, many Catholic Serbs have been in Dalmatia, Slavonia, Bosnia and Albania.
In the territory of Albania as early as the 19th century there was a community of 10 villages in the vicinity of Shkoder, which was inhabited by Serbs who converted to Catholicism and later changed their language to Albanian. [four]
Community in Dalmatia
In Croatia (Dubrovnik and Split) in the 19th century there was a popular movement (within the framework of Pan-Slavism), which believed that the local population, although it had converted to Catholicism, had not lost touch with Serbia. In Split, the newspaper Drashkov Rabosh was published, which propagated the goals of the movement. At the end of the 19th century, the movement was subjected to repression by the Austrian authorities.
Famous Catholic Serbs
- Ivan Jivo Gundulich , a nobleman and writer from Dubrovnik
- Matia Antun Relkovich, Slavonic priest and writer, author of Satire (1761). [five]
- Ivan Meshtrovich , Dalmatian sculptor
- Balthazar Bogisic , scientist and writer from Dubrovnik
- brother Andria Kacic Miošić , priest and writer
- Medo Putic , a nobleman and writer from Dubrovnik
- Dr. Luio Bakotic, lawyer and historian from Dubrovnik [6]
- Matia Ban , professor and writer from Dubrovnik
- Dr. Lovro Pavlovich-Lučić, Kninsky lawyer and politician from Knin, who published notes under the pseudonym Serbian Catholic
- Dr. Ivan Stoyanovich, Catholic priest and writer from Dubrovnik
Notes
- ↑ Danica, Novi Sad 1861. one year
- ↑ School Leaf, Sombor, 1882
- ↑ “Bosanska Vila”, Sarajevo 1899. Hody
- ↑ The Case, Beograd 1894. Hody
- ↑ “Enlighten the Glasnik”, Beograd 1904. Godina
- ↑ The Truth, Beograd 1939. Hody
Literature
- Ivan Ivaniћ: “About Buњevcima: the hangover-populist massacre”, Subotica 1894.
- Ivan Ivaniћ: "Buњevci and Shokci at Bachkoј, Baraњi and Litsi ...", Beograd 1899.
- Јovan Zhivoјnoviћ: “Krashovani (Karashani, Karashavtsi): beleshke, folk customs and try Gezika”, Novi Sad 1907.
- Nikola Toљa: Dubrovachki Srbi Catholic: Truth and Lost, Dubrovnik 2011.
- Svetozar Borak: “Srbi Catholic”, Novi Sad, Beograd 1998. Godina