Eparchy of Raška and Prizren

{{Short description|Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Infobox diocese | jurisdiction = Eparchy | name = Raška and Prizren | local = | image = Sv. Djordje Prizren.jpg | image_size = 200 | caption = Saint George Cathedral, Prizren | cathedral = Saint George Cathedral, Prizren | denomination = Eastern Orthodox | sui_iuris_church = Serbian Orthodox Church | established = 1808 | bishop = Teodosije Šibalić | headquarters = Gračanica Monastery, Gračanica, Kosovo | territory = Kosovo, Raška (Serbia) | language = Church Slavonic, Serbian | population = | website = [http://www.eparhija-prizren.com/en/ Eparchy of Raška and Prizren] | map = 270px }} '''Eparchy of Raška and Prizren'''{{efn|Also known as the '''Eparchy of Raška-Prizren and Kosovo-Metohija'''.}} ({{langx|sr|Епархија рашко-призренска|Eparhija raško-prizrenska}}, {{langx|sq|Eparkia Rashkë - Prizren}}) is a diocese (eparchy) of the Serbian Orthodox Church, covering Kosovo and historical region of Raška (Serbia).

The episcopal see is located at the Saint George Cathedral in Prizren, Kosovo. Its headquarters and bishop's residence are located at Gračanica Monastery in Gračanica, Kosovo.

==History== ===Archbishopric of Justiniana Prima=== Within the territory of the present-day Eparchy of Raška and Prizren several older eparchies existed throughout history. One of them was the ancient Bishopric of Ulpiana also known as ''Iustiniana Secunda'' situated near the modern town of Lipjan, where the remains of episcopal Basilica dating from the first half of 6th century have been found and excavated.{{sfn|Popović|1999|p=296}} Originally, the episcopal see of Ulpiana was under the supreme jurisdiction of the Archbishopric of Thessaloniki, and in 535 it was transferred to newly created Archbishopric of Justiniana Prima. The existence of several ancient churches in Ras and area of Ras could indicate existence of an ancient episcopy, possibly connected to the ancient Diocese of Ulpiana.{{sfn|Popović|1999|p=295–296}}

Byzantine rule in that region collapsed at the beginning of the 7th century, but the church life was renewed in the same century in Illyricum and Dalmatia after a more pronounced Christianization of the Serbs and other Slavs by the Roman Church.{{sfn|Curta|2001|p=125, 130}}{{sfn|Živković|2013a|pp=47}}{{sfn|Komatina|2016|pp=44–47, 73–74}} In the 7th and mid-8th century the area was not under jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.{{sfn|Komatina|2016|pp=47}}

===Eparchy of Ras=== Old ecclesiastical organization was partly preserved in the region, but the initial ecclesiastical affiliation with a specific diocese is uncertain.{{sfn|Komatina|2016|pp=73, 397}} In early medieval Serbia, its ecclesiastical center and capital was probably at Destinikon.{{sfn|Živković|2013a|pp=48}} By the late 9th century during the rule of Mutimir, the Church in Serbia seemingly did not have its bishop,{{sfn|Komatina|2015|pp=716}} and Mutimir decided to accept Byzantine emperor Basil I's expansion and moved the Church in Serbia away from the Roman Church in favor of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.{{sfn|Živković|2013a|pp=46–48}}{{sfn|Komatina|2015|pp=717}}{{sfn|Komatina|2016|pp=47–50, 73–74}}{{sfn|Špehar|2010|pp=203}}

The Eparchy of Ras was named after the old-Bulgarian-Serbian fortress of Ras, previously named in Latin as ''Arsa'' (mid-6th century).{{sfn|Bulić|2013|p=216}} The name of the entire region of Raška (lat. Rascia) is derived since the 11th century.{{sfn|Ćirković|2004|p=29, 33}} The fort was abandoned in the late 6th or early 7th century.{{sfn|Popović|1999|p=400}} According to ''De Administrando Imperio'', in the late 9th century it was located on the border between Serbia and the First Bulgarian Empire, and was not listed among the inhabited cities of Serbia. There is no consensus in scholarship as to whether Ras was located on the Serbian or Bulgarian side of the border,{{sfn|Popović|1999|p=37, 297–298, 400}}{{sfn|Živković|2013b|pp=28, 31, 34}}{{sfn|Bulić|2013|pp=217}}{{sfn|Ćirković|2004|p=12–15}}{{sfn|Curta|2006|p=146}}{{sfn|Ivanišević|Krsmanović|2013|p=450}} although newer research indicates that Ras was renovated, inhabited and controlled by the Bulgarians since the mid-9th century, hence being "a frontier district of Bulgaria".{{sfn|Popović|1999|p=139–161, 400–401}}{{sfn|Curta|2006|p=146–147}}{{sfn|Ivanišević|Krsmanović|2013|p=450}}{{sfn|Špehar|2019|p=118–120, 122}}

Alexis P. Vlasto argued that the Eparchy of Ras was founded during Mutimir's rule, as a bishopric of Serbia, at Ras with the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul.{{sfn|Vlasto|1970|p=208–209}} In the period of major ecclesiastical events that took place around the Fourth Council of Constantinople in 879–880,{{sfn|Vlasto|1970|p=208–209}} the decision was made by the Patriarchate of Constantinople to create an autonomous Archbishopric for Bulgaria after the Conversion of Bulgarians to Christianity and secondly, the decision of 870 confirmed the attachment of the Bulgarian Church to Eastern Orthodoxy.{{sfn|Vlasto|1970|p=67-68, 208–209}}<ref>Zlatarski, ''History of the Bulgarian State during the Middle Ages'', vol. 1, ch. 2, Sofia, 1971, p. 159</ref>{{sfn|Živković|2013a|pp=45}}{{sfn|Komatina|2015|pp=715}} The Byzantines supported the formation of many metropolises and when the Bulgarian Church received autocephalous status in 880, all the metropolises became part of it.{{sfn|Komatina|2016|pp=75–77}} However, Tibor Živković concluded, based on primary sources of the Church of Constantinople, that there was no information regarding the establishment of any new ecclesiastical center and organization in Serbia, and that Ras was only a border fort in the mid-9th century which became the ecclesiastical center of the bishopric by 1019-1020.{{sfn|Živković|2013a|pp=48}} The imperial charter of Basil II from 1020 to the Archbishopric of Ohrid, in which the rights and jurisdictions were established, has the earliest mention, stating that the Episcopy of Ras belonged to the Bulgarian autocephal church during the time of Peter I (927–969) and Samuel of Bulgaria (977–1014).{{sfn|Komatina|2015|pp=717}}{{sfn|Komatina|2016|pp=76, 89–90}} It was of a small size.{{sfn|Popović|1999|p=38}} It is considered that it was possibly founded by the Bulgarian emperor,{{sfn|Popović|1999|p=401}}{{sfn|Ćirković|2004|pp=20, 30}} or it is the latest date when it could have been integrated to the Bulgarian Church.{{sfn|Komatina|2016|pp=76–77}} If it previously existed, it probably was part of the Bulgarian metropolis of Morava, but certainly not of Durrës.{{sfn|Komatina|2016|pp=75, 88–91}} If it was on Serbian territory, it seems that the Church in Serbia or part of the territory of Serbia became linked and influenced by the Bulgarian Church between 870 and 924.{{sfn|Komatina|2015|pp=717–718}}{{sfn|Komatina|2016|pp=77, 91}}{{sfn|Špehar|2010|pp=203, 216}}

In the time of emperor John I Tzimiskes (969–976), after a successful campaign in 971,{{sfn|Popović|1999|p=402}} Byzantine rule was shortly restored in the region on both the Serbian and Bulgarian part of border, with protospatharios John appointed as governor (catepan) of Ras.{{sfn|Stephenson|2003|p=42}}{{sfn|Stephenson|2003a|p=122}}{{sfn|Komatina|2016|pp=78–84}}

===Archbishopric of Ohrid=== [[File:Archbishopric of Ohrid in 1020, map by Dimitar Rizov (1917).jpg|thumb|right|Jurisdiction of the Archbishopric of Ohrid]] After the victorious Byzantine conquest of First Bulgarian Empire in 1018, by order of emperor Basil II an autonomous Archbishopric of Ohrid was established in 1019, by lowering the rank of the autocephalous Bulgarian Patriarchate due to its subjugation to Constantinople, placing it under the supreme ecclesiastical jurisdiction the Patriarchate of Constantinople.{{sfn|Komatina|2016|pp=84}} Imperial charters of 1019 and 1020 mention three bishoprics on the territory of present-day Eparchy of Raška and Prizren with episcopal sees in the towns of Ras, Prizren, and Lipljan. All three were designated as distinct dioceses of the autonomous Archbishopric of Ohrid.{{sfn|Ćirković|2004|p=21-22}}{{sfn|Bulić|2013|p=221-222}}

===Serbian Archbishopric=== The autocephaly of Serbian Archbishopric was achieved in 1219 by Saint Sava, who was consecrated as first Serbian archbishop by the Byzantine patriarch residing at that time in Nicaea. All of the three old eparchies of Raška, Prizren and Lipljan were, with some interruptions, under the jurisdiction of Serbian Archbishopric and Serbian Orthodox Church ever since. New eparchy of Hvosno was also created in northern parts of the region of Metohija. The see of Serbian archbishop was soon transferred from Žiča Monastery to Patriarchate of Peć Monastery in Metohija.{{sfn|Fine|1994|p=117}}{{sfn|Ćirković|2004|p=40-44}}{{sfn|Popović|2002|p=171–184}}

===Serbian Patriarchate of Peć=== [[File:Patriarchate of Peć in the 16th and 17th century.png|thumb|Jurisdiction of the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć]] In 1346, Serbian Archbishopric was raised to the rank of patriarchate with its see remaining at Patriarchate of Peć Monastery. At the same time the eparchies of Prizren and Lipljan were raised by title to the rank of metropolitanates. Bishops of Lipljan kept under their jurisdiction the region of central Kosovo with Gračanica and Novo Brdo. Period from the beginning of 13th century to the end of 14th century was the golden age for the Serbian Orthodoxy in the regions of Raška, Kosovo, and Metohija with many monasteries and churches built by Serbian rulers and local Serbian nobility.

In the time of Ottoman conquests, in mid-15th century, Serbian Patriarchate suffered great devastation. Regions of Raška, Kosovo, and Metohija finally fell under Ottoman rule around 1455.{{sfn|Katić|Vučetić|2017|p=365-377}} Serbian Patriarchate was renewed in 1557 by patriarch Makarije Sokolović.{{sfn|Ćirković|2004|p=135-137}}{{sfn|Sotirović|2011|p=143–169}} In that time (16th–17th century) on the territory of modern-day eparchy there were patriarchal see at the Patriarchate of Peć Monastery and five eparchies: Raška, Prizren, Lipljan, Vučitrn, and Hvosno.{{sfn|Ćirković|2004|p=177}} During that time, two major events tragically impacted Serbian Patriarchate in the region. In the time of Great Turkish War relations between Muslims and Christians in European provinces of Ottoman Empire were radicalized. As a result of Turkish oppression, destruction of churches and monasteries and violence against non-Muslim civilian population, Serbs and their religious leaders headed by Serbian Patriarch Arsenije III sided with Habsburgs in 1689 and again in 1737 under Serbian Patriarch Arsenije IV.{{sfn|Ćirković|2004|p=144, 244}} In the following punitive campaigns, Ottoman forces conducted systematic atrocities against Christian population, mainly in Metohija, Kosovo, and Raška, resulting in Great Migrations of the Serbs.{{sfn|Pavlowitch|2002|p=19-20}}{{sfn|Točanac-Radović|2022|p=15-27}} One of the consequences of devastation and depopulation during Austro-Turkish wars was the reorganization of local Serbian eparchies. The old Eparchy of Lipljan (with Gračanica and Novo Brdo) was merged with the Eparchy of Prizren, remaining united to this day.

===Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople=== In 1766, the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć and all of its eparchies that were on territories under Ottoman rule were placed under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.{{sfn|Ćirković|2004|p=177}} During the transfer of jurisdictions, Serbian patriarchal archdiocese of Peć was abolished, and its territory was added to the Eparchy of Prizren. In 1789, that eparchy was placed under administration of metropolitan Joanikije of Raška. In 1808, the eparchies of Raška and Prizren were officially merged into the current Eparchy of Raška and Prizren. In 1894, the region of Pljevlja was also added to this eparchy.{{sfn|Ракочевић|1983|p=279}}

===Serbian Orthodox Church=== {{main|Destruction of Serbian heritage in Kosovo}} The Ottoman rule ended in 1912, and territory of eparchy was divided between Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of Montenegro. Prizren became part of the Kingdom of Serbia, and Peć became part of the Kingdom of Montenegro. Political division was followed by reorganization of church administration. In the Montenegrin part, a separated Eparchy of Peć was created. During the World War I territories of both eparchies were occupied by the army of Austria-Hungary. After World War I and the creation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, its territory was united with other Serbian ecclesiastical provinces to form the unified Serbian Orthodox Church, a process completed in 1920.{{sfn|Ćirković|2004|p=252-253}} In 1931, Eparchy of Peć was reincorporated into the Eparchy of Raška and Prizren. In 1941, Yugoslavia was attacked and occupied by Nazi Germany and its allies.{{sfn|Ćirković|2004|p=268-269}}

The territory of the Eparchy of Raška and Prizren was occupied by Germans (northern part), Italians (central part), and Bulgarians (eastern part). The Italian occupation zone was annexed to the Italian protectorate of Albania. That marked the beginning of mass persecution of ethnic Serbs in the annexed regions of Metohija and central Kosovo. Many churches and monasteries of the Eparchy of Raška and Prizren were looted and destroyed. Reign of terror was enforced by Albanian fascist organization Balli Kombëtar and by Albanian SS Division "Skanderbeg", created by Heinrich Himmler.{{sfn|Tomasevich|2001|p=154}} By the time of the re-annexation in 1944, the Serb population were expelled from Kosovo.

More than a hundred of the Eparchy's churches and monasteries were targeted for vandalism and destruction by Albanian nationalists after the Kosovo War and during the 2004 unrest in Kosovo.<ref>{{cite book|last=Rakitić|first=Dušan|editor1-last=Ferrari|editor1-first=Silvio|editor2-last=Benzo|editor2-first=Andrea|year=2014|title=Between Cultural Diversity and Common Heritage: Legal and Religious Perspectives on the Sacred Places of the Mediterranean|chapter=Envisaging a Legal Framework for Ensuring Sustainable Preservation of Holy Places with Regard to the Case of Kosovo and Metohia|publisher=Ashgate Publishing|location=Farnham, England|isbn=978-1-47242-601-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VqCrBAAAQBAJ|page=193}}</ref>{{sfn|Bataković|2015a|p=569-608}}{{sfn|Bataković|2015b|p=935-945}}

The 2023 Ohrid Agreement, proposed by the European Union and agreed by reprezentatives of Serbia and Kosovo, stpulates that parties shall formalise the status of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo and afford strong level of protection to the Serbian religious and cultural heritage sites, in line with existing European models.<ref>[https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/belgrade-pristina-dialogue-eu-proposal-agreement-path-normalisation-between-kosovo-and-serbia_en EU: Agreement on the path to normalisation between Kosovo and Serbia (2023)]</ref>

==List of bishops== ===Bishops of Ras=== * Leontius (1123–1126) * Cyril (1141–1143) * Euthemius (1170) * Callinicus (1196) ===Bishops of Prizren=== * Ioannis (12th century) * Avramios (1204) * Nicephoros (1216) ===Metropolitans of Prizren=== * Gavrilo (1766–1774) * Sofronije (around 1780) * Jevsevije (died 1789) * Joanikije (administrator) (1789–1808) ===Metropolitans of Raška and Prizren=== * Joanikije (1789–1818) * Zaharija (1819–1830) * Ananije (1830–1836) * German (1836–1838) * Sinesije (1838–1840) * Ignjatije (1840–1849) * Partenije (1849–1854) * Melentije Spandonidis (1854–1895) * Dionisije Petrović (1896–1900) * Nićifor Perić (1901–1911) * Gavrilo Dožić (1912–1920) ===Bishops of Raška and Prizren=== * Mihajlo Šiljak (1920–1928) * Serafim Jovanović (1928–1945) * Vladimir Rajić (administrator) (1945–1947) * Vladimir Rajić (1947–1956) * Pavle Stojčević (1957–1990) * Artemije Radosavljević (1991��2010) * Atanasije Jevtić (administrator) (2010) * Amfilohije Radović (administrator) (2010) * Teodosije Šibalić (2010–present)

==Notable monasteries and churches== === Monasteries === * Đurđevi Stupovi (1170) (World Heritage Site) * Patriarchate of Peć (early 13th c.) (World Heritage Site) * Sopoćani (1259) (World Heritage Site) * Gračanica (1310) (World Heritage Site) * Banjska (1312) * Visoki Dečani (1327) (World Heritage Site) * Holy Archangels (1343) * Zočište (early 14th c.) * Gorioč (early 14th c.) * Sokolica (14th c.) * Budisavci (14th c.) * Binač (14th c.) * Devič (1434) * Saint Mark of Koriša (1467)

=== Churches === * Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (c. 820) (World Heritage Site) * Our Lady of Ljeviš (1306) (World Heritage Site)

==Gallery== <gallery> File:Manastir_Pecka_Patrijarsija_2.jpg|Patriarchate of Peć Monastery File:Manastir_Visoki_Dečani_(Манастир_Високи_Дечани)_-_by_Pudelek..jpg|Visoki Dečani Monastery File:Gračanica_Monastery,_2013-1.jpg|Gračanica Monastery File:Manastir_Sopocani_2.jpg|Sopoćani Monastery </gallery> <gallery> File:Petrova_1.jpg|Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul File:Bogorodica_Ljeviška_–_lepota_u_okovima.jpg|Our Lady of Ljeviš Church File:Manastir_Đurđevi_Stupovi.jpg|Đurđevi Stupovi Monastery File:Banjska_Monastery,_2012.jpg|Banjska Monastery </gallery>

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==External links== {{Commonscat|Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Raška and Prizren}} * [http://www.eparhija-prizren.com Official site of the Eparchy of Raška and Prizren] * [http://www.spc.rs/eng Official site of the Serbian Orthodox Church] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512021255/http://www.spc.rs/eng |date=12 May 2016 }} * [http://spomenicikulture.mi.sanu.ac.rs/list.php List of Cultural Monuments in Serbia] * [http://www.rastko.rs/kosovo/delo/11587 Project Rastko: Kosovo and Metohija] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20101121071749/http://www.manastiri.rs/eparhije/raska/raska.htm Monasteries of the Eparchy of Raška and Prizren] * [http://www.kosovo.net Kosovo.net Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo and Metohia] * {{cite book |last1=Ćirković |first1=Sima |editor1-last=Ivić |editor1-first=Pavle |title=The history of Serbian culture |date=1995 |publisher=Porthill Publishers |isbn=9781870732314 |url=https://www.rastko.rs/isk/scirkovic-middle_ages.html |chapter=Rises and falls in Serbian statehood in the middle ages}} * {{cite book |last1=Ljušić |first1=Radoš |editor1-last=Ivić |editor1-first=Pavle |title=The history of Serbian culture |date=1995 |publisher=Porthill Publishers |isbn=9781870732314 |url=https://www.rastko.rs/isk/rljusic-turks_and_revival.html |chapter=The centuries under Turkish rule and the revival of Serbian statehood}} * {{cite web |last1=Janković |first1=Đorđe |title=Kosovo and Metohia in The Middle Ages |url=https://www.rastko.rs/arheologija/djordje_jankovic.html |website=rastko.rs}} * {{cite web |title=Old Serbia and Albanians |url=https://www.rastko.rs/kosovo/istorija/sanu/old-serbia.html |website=rastko.rs |publisher=Historical Institute of Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences |date=1999}} * {{cite web |url=http://www.rastko.rs/kosovo/crucified/default.htm |title=Crucified Kosovo: Destroyed and desecrated Serbian Orthodox churches in Kosovo and Metohia (June–October 1999) |website=rastko.rs}} * [http://www.seecorridors.eu/filebank/file_222.pdf The Holy Virgin of Ljeviska, Bogdorica Ljeviska]

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