The Archive of the Serbian Orthodox Church (Serbian Cyrillic: Архив Српске православне цркве), abbreviated as the ASPC[2], in Belgrade, Serbia is the central repository archive of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
| Archive of the Serbian Orthodox Church | |
|---|---|
| Архив Српске православне цркве (Serbian) | |
 Administration headquarters shared with the Serbian Orthodox Church College of Art and Conservation in Belgrade | |
| Location | Kralja Petra Street 2, Belgrade,  Serbia |
| Type | central church archive |
| Other information | |
| Director | Radovan Pilipović[1] |
| Parent organization | Serbian Orthodox Church |
| Website | Official website |
History
editThe archive developed on the foundations of the central archive of the Metropolitanate of Belgrade after the 1920 reunification of the Patriarchate of Karlovci in the Habsburg monarchy, the Metropolitanate of Belgrade in the Kingdom of Serbia, and the Metropolitanate of Montenegro in the Principality of Montenegro into single Serbian Orthodox Church within the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.[citation needed]
The archive primarily contains important documents from the early 19th century onwards crucial for understanding the ecclesiastical and secular history.[3] The archive receives support in its work from the Ministry of Culture and Information and the Directorate for Cooperation with Churches and Religious Communities.[4] The archive in its current form of an independent institution was developed only after 2007 and the agreement between the Church with the Ministry of Culture and Information and the Archive of Serbia which ensured personnel and appropriate staff to manage archival work missing within the church hierarchy.[5]
The archival materials were initially kept at the residence of the Archbishop of Serbia and Metropolitan of Belgrade until 1935 when they were transferred to Kralja Petra I Street 5.[5] The central facilities of the archive at the Kralja Petra Street in Belgrade hold just a fraction of the total collection of the archive, which spans two to three kilometres in length.[6] Remaining archival collection was moved from the Building of the Patriarchate to the gallery of the St. Mark's Church in 1989.[6] The unprofessional transport of the archives led to many items being scattered, and some documents disappeared without a trace.[5] For nearly two and a half decades, the valuable archive, which provides insights into the ecclesiastical, social, demographic, diplomatic, and political history of modern Serbia and Serb people in neighbouring countries, remained in dust, neglected and uncared for motivating state institutions to get involved.[5] The formal agreement was signed on 14 December 2007 with Serbian Orthodox Church represented by the Metropolitan Bishop of Montenegro and the Littoral Amfilohije Radović and state institutions by the Minister of Culture and Information Vojislav Brajović and the director of the Archive of Serbia Miroslav Perišić.[5] In 2019, this material was moved from the St. Mark's Church to the newly reconstructed Svetosavski dom building in Zemun, building built between 1907 and 1909 and listed as a cultural monument in its own rights.[3]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "АРХИВ СРПСКЕ ПРАВОСЛАВНЕ ЦРКВЕ". Serbian Orthodox Church. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
- ^ Bergholz, Max (2016). Violence as a Generative Force Identity, Nationalism, and Memory in a Balkan Community. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. p. XV. ISBN 9781501705885.
- ^ a b Aleksandar Apostolovski (20 April 2019). "Okončana seoba arhivske građe SPC". Politika. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
- ^ "Patrijarh osveštao nove prostorije Arhiva SPC". Blic. 19 April 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
- ^ a b c d e Pilipović, Radovan (2015). "PRINCIP SLOBODNE PROVENIJENCIJE U SREÐIVANJU FONDOVA ARHIVA SPC-PRIMJER PRIMJENE NA FONDU „SVETI ARHIJEREJSKI SINOD (1920-1941)"" [THE PRINCIPLE OF LIBERAL PROVENANCE IN SYSTEMATISING THE FONDS OF THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH ARCHIVES – APPLIED ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE FOND OF “THE HOLY SYNOD (1920–1941)“]. Glasnik arhiva i Arhivističkog udruženja Bosne i Hercegovine (45): 36–44.
- ^ a b "Arhiv SPC - crkvena građa kao duhovna vertikala". Radio Television of Vojvodina. 30 March 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2024.