Arsenije IV | |
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| Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch | |
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| Church | Serbian Patriarchate of Peć |
| See | Patriarchal Monastery of Peć |
| Installed | 1724 |
| Term ended | 1748 |
| Predecessor | Mojsije I |
| Successor | Joanikije III |
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| Born | 1698 |
| Died | 18 January 1748 (aged 50) |
Arsenije IV Jovanović Šakabenta (Serbian Cyrillic:Арсеније IV Јовановић Шакабента,Serbian pronunciation:[ǎrseːnijet͡ʃětʋr̩ːtiː]; 1698 – 18 January 1748) was theArchbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch from 1724 to 1737 andHead of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Habsburg Monarchy from 1737 to his death in 1748.[1]
He opened the first official Academy of Painting on the territory of theMetropolitanate of Karlovci after the artistic and cultural reforms were commenced under the auspices and blessing ofVikentije Jovanović, his predecessor. He commissioned the Slavic heraldic bearings calledStemmatographia. He was succeeded by patriarchJoannicius III.
In 1724, the ailing Serbian patriarchMojsije I (d. 1730) decided to step down from the patriarchal throne, and was succeeded by Arsenije, the metropolitan ofRaška, who became the new Serbian patriarch asArsenije IV, with seat inPeć.[2]
In 1737, during theHabsburg-Ottoman War patriarch Arsenije IV moved fromPeć toBelgrade, and remained there until 1739.[3] With theTreaty of Belgrade (1739) which ended the war, the Habsburg-heldKingdom of Serbia ceased to exist. TheOttoman sultan deposed the pro-Habsburg patriarch Arsenije IV and in his place appointedJoannicius III, who was a Greek.
Patriarch Arsenije IV thus remained in theHabsburg monarchy along with manySerbs, who accompanied him during theSecond Serbian Migration. Arsenije IV becameMetropolitan of Karlovci, maintaining however deep connections with the Serbs who remained in theOttoman Empire, now under the jurisdiction of Joannicius III, who remained Patriarch of Peć until 1746, when, burdened with debts due to his high-living, he was forced to sell the title to pay his creditors.[4]
In 1743, responding to the petition of patriarch Arsenije IV and his bishops in the Habsburg monarchy, queenMaria Theresa confirmed and continued to uphold old privileges granted to her Serbian subjects by previous Habsburg monarchs, emperors Leopold I, Joseph I and Charles VI.[5]
Arsenije signed himself "Arsenije, By the Grace of God, Archbishop of Peć and Patriarch of all Serbs and Bulgarians and all of Illyria".[6] Another style was "Archbishop of All Serbs, Bulgarians, Western Pomorje, Dalmatia, Bosnia, both halves of Danube and all of Illyria".[7]
Док се Арсеније у својим писмима обично потписује „Арсеније божиеју милостију архиепископ пекски и всем Србљем и Блгаром и всего Илирика патриарх' (Јов. Радонић, Прилози за историју Срба у Угарској (Нови Сад 1909), 138) ...
У првом наслову кььиге сто]и да ]е патриарх Арсен^е IV архиепископ свих Срба, Бугара, западног Помор]а, Далмаци ю, Боене, обе половине Дунава и целог Илирика. То ]е поновлено и испод патри)арховог портрета и испод ...
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| Preceded by | Serbian Patriarch 1724–1737 (1748) | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Metropolitan of Karlovci 1737–1748 | Succeeded by |
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