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Bishop Valerian (Vasilije Pribićević; Dubica, Banija, Austria-Hungary, 25 April 1870 — Split, Dalmacia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 10 July 1941) was a bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church and a member of a distinguished Serbian political family living in Croatia, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia..[1]
Life
[edit]Vasilije Pribićević was born on 25 April 1870 in Dubica. He graduated from high school with honors in Rakovac near Karlovac, and the Theological Academy in Kiev. After two years of teaching at the Monastic School in the Hopovo Monastery, he became a monk on 8 May 1894 in the Krušedol Monastery and was given the name Valerian.
From 1897 to 1899, he was a teacher at the Serbian Gymnasium in Constantinople. He was dismissed from service because he refused to sign a congratulatory telegram on the occasion of the return to the country of King Milan I of Serbia. Later, in Vienna and Leipzig, he studied Greek language and Byzantine studies, and upon his return, he was appointed professor at the old [[Theological Seminary "Saint Arsenius of Srem" in Karlovci Theological Seminary. In the famed High Treason Trial of 1909 in Zagreb, he was sentenced to twelve years in prison[2], though released after the abolition in 1910[3].
After World War I, he was regularly elected as a member of parliament until the famous 6 January 1929. For many years, Archimandrite Valerian was the abbot of the Jazak Monastery, and as such, was elected Vicar Bishop of Srem on 8 December 1939.[4]. He was ordained bishop on 28 January 1940 in Sremski Karlovci by Serbian Patriarch Gavrilo V, Metropolitan Josif Cvijović of Skopje, and Bishop Vikentije of Zletovo and Strumica (who later became Vikentije II, Serbian Patriarch. And, as a vicar bishop, he retained the administration of Jazak Monastery. During World War II, Vicar Bishop Valerian complained to General Heinrich Danckelmann of the German High Command that vassal Ante Pavelić's organized massacres and forced conversions of the Serbian population in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina[5][6].
Valerian (Pribićević) died on 10 July 1941 in Split, where he was temporarily buried in the tomb of his friend Miloš Jelaška. Through the efforts of friends and some brave women, in 1956, the body of Vicar Bishop Valerian (Pribićević) was transferred from a Roman Catholic ossuary in Split to Jazak Monastery and buried near the monastery church[7]
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[edit]- Svetozar Pribićević, brother
- Milan Pribićević, brother
- Adam Pribićević, brother
- Stoyan Pribichevich, nephew
References
[edit]- ^ Cite web|url=https://banija.rs/banija/14121-poznati-banijci-braca-pribicevici-vaso-valerijan-pribicevic.html%7Ctitle=Banija%7Curl-status=live
- ^ Les Croates et les Slovènes ont été les amis de l'Entente pendant la guerre: Quelques documents officiels tirés des archives militaires d'Autriche-Hongrie. Imprimerie Lang, Blanchong et cie. 1919.
- ^ https://cudl.colorado.edu/MediaManager/srvr?mediafile=MISC/UCBOULDERCB1-58-NA/1511/i73752381.pdf
- ^ "Politika", 9 December 1939
- ^ "Massacres and Forced Conversions".
- ^ Convert-- or Die!: Catholic Persecution in Yugoslavia During World War II. Chick Publications. 1988. ISBN 978-0-937958-35-3.
- ^ "Манастир Јазак - Епархија сремска". Епархија сремска.