Isaija Đaković
Isaija Đaković (Grabovac, near Slankamen, c. 1635 - Vienna, Habsburg Monarchy, 20 July 1708) was the Metropolitan of Krušedol (Karlovci) in 1708, [1]and Patriarch Arsenije III Čarnojević's chief negotiator with Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor in the summer of 1690 before the Migration of the Serbs.[2]. He pulled off a diplomatic coup over the Imperial court when he obtained the amendments in the Privileges.
Biography[edit]
Đaković was born in the village of Grabovac, near Slankamen. He graduated from elementary school, gymnasium and the Theological Seminary. He married his village sweetheart before being ordained in priesthood. Tragically his wife died prematurely, and he gave up everything for Christ and accepted monasticism at the Krušedol Monastery.
Later on, as an educated monk who spoke perfect German, he was elevated to the rank of Bishop of Ineu. In Belgrade in 1690 Patriarch Arsenije III Čarnojević received a "Letter of Invitation" from Leopold I to come under his protection in return for the Serbs to stay on their land and give, "according to their circumstances, the necessary food and other supplies to the Imperial armies on the battlefield."[2]At the time the Austrian Habsburgs needed able-bodied fighting men to survive as an empire. The protracted and tedious Great Turkish War was beginning to exhaust much of the their treasury and resources.
Unfortunately the Imperial invitation arrived three months after it was written, raising the possibility of an exodus of the Serbian population from Old Serbia, now that the balance of power tipped to the Turkish side. With the invitation and the looming exodus, the People's Assembly convened in Belgrade that Summer of 1690 at the behest of Patriarch Arsenije III. After lengthy discussions, the people decided to accept the Emperor's offer of protection and Isaija Đaković was named chief negotiator in the upcoming Vienna talks.[2]
Isaija's task was to make necessary alterations to the initial invitation. Since the letter didn't address the current Serbian population living in Austria[3]and Hungary from the time of the Middle Ages,[4]therefore, how could the new wave of Serb settlers hope to plant their roots without guarantees? Of course, the Emperor's letter needed a supplementary text to address the issue for the sake of future existence of the Serbs in the Empire. The Assembly decision was to correct the document that became known as 'Privileges'. It was Isaija's job to make sure that "church autonomy and jurisdiction for the patriarch" was identical to the situation he had held under the Sultan before the war. [5][6]
Patriarch Arsenije and his negotiator Bishop Đaković were well aware that Leopold had appropriated all the ancient Serbian lands north of the Sava and Danube rivers for his Empire with no church autonomy and jurisdiction for the patriarch. Bishop Isaija then went to Vienna and met with Đorđe Branković (count) who was by then under civilian supervision and living in a poorhouse.[7]Together Bishop Isaija and Count Branković drafted specific demands as supplements to the privileges for the upcoming Belgrade Assembly (18 June 1690) and on 21 August 1690, Patriarch Arsenije received from the Emperor 'Privileges' with a new text that he had requested in the name of his people. [8]In the 'Privileges' Serbs were a recognized nation in the Habsburg Monarchy, giving them religious and political guarantees on the condition that they remain loyal to the crown and defend the empire.[9](In 1912, two years before the Great War, the Serbian privileges were abolished).[10]
The long negotiations included the submissions of the first draft of 'Privileges' to the Patriarchal representative (Isaija Đaković) who noted that some essential changes had to be made primarily in part concerning the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church over the Serbs who lived in territories now occupied by Hungary and those who lived in Croatia. This change in the 'Privileges' was always thought to be the greatest diplomatic victory of Isaija Đaković over the Imperial Habsburg court.
Through a proclamation of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, on 21 August 1691, Grgeteg Monastery was given to Isaija Đaković, along with the village of Neradin and the barren lands of Brankovci. In 1708 the National Church Council in Krušedol requested the election of Isaija Đaković as metropolitan and the establishment of a printing centre for the needs of Serbian people and the church.[11]
Metropolitan Isaija died suddenly in 1708, and Bishop Stevan Metohijac of the Eparchy of Bačka took over the mundane responsibilities of the metropolitan until the Synod convened to elect Metropolitan Sofronije Podgoričanin as Isaija's successor in 1710.[12]
References[edit]
- ↑ Bataković, Dušan T. (25 December 2018). Histoire du peuple serbe. L'AGE D'HOMME. ISBN 9782825119587 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Todorovic, Jelena (25 December 2018). An Orthodox Festival Book in the Habsburg Empire: Zaharija Orfelin's Festive Greeting to Mojsej Putnik (1757). Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 9780754656111 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ "Serbs in Austria". 1 August 2018 – via Wikipedia.
- ↑ "Serbs in Hungary". 27 September 2018 – via Wikipedia.
- ↑ Cirkovic, Sima M. (15 April 2008). The Serbs. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781405142915 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ Jelavich, Barbara (29 July 1983). History of the Balkans. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521274586 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ Radonić 1911, pp. 404–6
- ↑ "Isaija Đaković". 23 June 2014 – via Wikipedia.
- ↑ "Serbs in Vojvodina". 8 October 2018 – via Wikipedia.
- ↑ "View source for Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor" – via Wikipedia.
- ↑ Mitev, Plamen (25 December 2018). Empires and Peninsulas: Southeastern Europe Between Karlowitz and the Peace of Adrianople, 1699-1829. LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 9783643106117 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ Burgess, Michael (25 December 2018). The Eastern Orthodox Churches: Concise Histories with Chronological Checklists of Their Primates. McFarland. ISBN 9780786421459 – via Google Books. Search this book on
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