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SLAVIA NEDELJKOVI

THE IMPERIAL DECREE ON OBTAINING

THE METROPOLITAN CHAIR IN PRIZREN
Summary
In the social and spiritual life of Serbs in Turkey, the church had extremely great
importance. National gathering of Serbs in the Ottoman Empire was possible only under
the auspices of the church, so the church issue was one of the most important issues of the
Serbian nation in Turkey. In addition to the spiritual, the Church at the time had a great
educational importance. Namely, since the Turkish authorities recognized the right to
open and run schools only to religious communities, the church was the center of
spreading literacy among the Serbian nation in Old Serbia. Therefore the absence of the
Serbian Church in Old Serbia and Macedonia caused major problems to the Serbian
national activity in the Serbian lands under Turkish rule. Since the Church in Turkey had
the landmark of ethnicity, in addition to religious and educational role, the struggle for the
Serbian Metropolitan positions in Old Serbia had great political significance. Therefore,
the appointment of Dionizije Petrovi for Raka-Prizren Metropolitan represented a
significant diplomatic success of Serbia. The arrival of Serbian Metropolitan at the head
of Raska and Prizren diocese opened the possibility to strengthen the national and political
activity in Old Serbia through the church institutions across. Serbian population across
Old Serbia got an opportunity for more intensive actions in the church-educational and
cultural level, while the Serbia itself got the powerful strongpoint for a successful
implementation of the national policy in the European part of Turkey.
Keywords: Metropolitans, the Serbian nation, Serbia, Turkey, Prizren, Porta, the
Patriarchate of Constantinople, Greeks, the church.

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