Arsenije Radivojevic
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Arsenije Radivojević[1] was a Serbian Orthodox Church Bishop of the Eparchy of Buda from 1770 to 1774. He took over when Bishop Bishop Dionisije (Novaković) passed away.
He was born as Timothy in Santandreja, in a respectable Serbian family. He was educated in his hometown by teacher Adam Komoranc. He continued his education in Buda, and then returned to Santandrei.
He was made deacon on 2 June 1742 by Bishop Vasilije Dimitrijević of Buda, in the Virgin Cathedral in Szentendre. At the end of 1742, he moved to Karlovac, at the invitation of Patriarch Arsenije IV Jovanović Šakabenta, where he was at the metropolitan court for several months. He then had to go to the Rakovac monastery after obedience. He then went to Novi Sad, to the bishop of Bačka, Visarion Pavlović. The bishop sent him to schools to train, in Szeged and Novi Sad, to become a teacher in 1744. He started teaching children in the Novi Sad school founded by the bishop. In the second half of 1748, he was invited by the Metropolitan to Karlovac. He was then appointed court archdeacon and teacher of the Clerical School in Novi Sad. He kept it with him after the death of Metropolitan Antonović, and the new Metropolitan Nenadović.
He became an Orthodox priest on 14 September 1749 in the church of St. Nikola in Karlovci. In the same year, on 2 November 1749, he was ordained a monk by Metropolitan Nenadović in the Fruška Gora monastery in Rakovec.
Metropolitan Nenadović appointed Arsenije Radivojević "Orthodox Metropolitan Exarch". He spent a year from 1753 to 1754 as the administrator of the Kostajnica diocese. It was during dangerous times, the illegal takeover of the Orthodox Monastery of Marča, which Empress Maria Theresa handed indiscriminantly over to the Uniates. Exarch Radivojević openly opposed that, and was at enmity with the infamous general there, Count Benvenut Petacius, who cruelly harassed the Orthodox clergy. After the death of his patron and countryman, Bishop Visarion Pavlović (1755), he was appointed administrator of the Bačka diocese until 1757. He was ordained in 1757 as archsyndelos, and on 30 January 1759 as archimandrite, of the Church of Saint Nicholas (Nikolajevska crkva) in Karlovci. In the meantime, between 1757 and 1759, as exarch, he administered the Diocese of Timisoara. From that period, his general visit to the Diocese of Timisoara was made in 1758. He left a valuable "Report" on the state of Orthodox parishes and their temples, from which one can see the state of Orthodoxy at that time. He was then appointed bishop of the Diocese of Pakrac on 2 February 1759.
Together with his brothers Simeon, he became a priest (parish priest in Szantendre) and John Colonel, on 3 August 1763, a nobleman. The Radivojevics received a nobleman's patent and a coat of arms in Vienna. As a nobleman, he begged to be transferred in 1770 to the Diocese of Buda. He was the Diocese of Buda from 1770 to 1774 where in his native Szentendre he began the construction of the bishop's court. At the request of Metropolitan Vidak of Karlovac, he was again on the bishop's throne in Bačka, during 1774-1781. years. He retired on 15 March 1781, with a pension of £ 200.
As early as 1769, an investigation was conducted against some bishops at the Serbian Church-People's Assembly. Bishop Radivojević was the worst, who was first threatened by the imperial authorities (1766), because he opposed the union of Orthodox in Croatia. A lawsuit was filed against him at that council due to new machinations with (Russian) gifts that the church received. The parishioners of Novi Sad, Orthodox Serbs, raised a "People's Revolt" against him, on 8 October 1777. It was part of a wider wave among the Orthodox in the Austrian Empire. The reason for the riots was the imperial order that during the funeral, they could no longer carry open coffins with the deceased during the movement of the procession through the city. After the morning service, the parishioners rushed to the yard and demonstrated against the imposed regulation. Although the bishop reassured them by promising to mediate, that was not enough. Dissatisfaction spread, so the rebels arrived in Novi Sad from the surrounding villages. The Orthodox people understood that as one of the steps of the state towards unification, but they spilled all their "food" on Radivojević. Everything he had done a few years earlier, against the union in March, had been forgotten. First, his persistent enemies filed lawsuits against Emperor Joseph II of Austria on 9 October 1778, and again on 5 November 1780; but the ruler died so there was no effect.
Bishop Arsenije Radivojević died on 3 October 1783 in Novi Sad where he was buried.
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