Valerijan Pribicevic

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Valerijan Pribićević (Serbian: Валеријан Прибићевић; Kozarska Dubica, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 25 April 1870 – Split, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 10 July 1941) was a vicar bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church at Sremski Karlovci who died in Split after the Nazi-occupation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Croatia's declaration as an independent state.

Life

Bishop Valerijan's secular name is Vasilije Pribićević, born on 25 April 1870 in the village of Dubica, near Kostanjica, to a well-known family of Serbs in Hungarian Croatia. Valerijan had three younger brothers: Svetozar Pribićević, Milan Pribićević, and Adam Pribićević, all of whom were writers and politically involved in everyday affairs.

Vasilije Pribićević graduated from high school with honors in Rakovec near Karlovac, and the Kiev Theological Academy in Kiev, then part of Imperial Russia. After two years of teaching at the Monastic School in the Novo Hopovo Monastery, he became a monk on 8 May 1894 in the Krušedol Monastery and was given the name Valerijan.

From 1897 to 1899 Valerijan Pribićević 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 King Milan's return to the Kingdom of Serbia. Later, he studied Greek and Byzantine studies in Vienna and Leipzig, and upon his return, he was appointed professor at the old Karlovci Theological Seminary. In the famous high treason trial in Zagreb, better known as the Agram Trial, he was with his brother Adam among the accused in the High Treason Trial, and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. He was released from prison after the abolition of the penal colony in 1910.

After World War I, he was regularly elected as a member of parliament of the new Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, until the famous 6 January 1929 when King Alexander I dissolved the National Assembly and abrogated the Vidovdan Constitution after Serbian and Croatian parties in Croatia refused to cooperate in governing the country. The king attempted to unify the nation by suppressing political parties based on ethnicity; this later led to the renaming of the country to Yugoslavia on 3 October 1929. Valerijan's brother Svetozar Pribićević along with Croatians Vlatko Maček and churchman Fran Barac played a major role in provoking the monarch to take drastic measures.

For many years, Archimandrite Valerijan was the abbot of the Jazak Monastery. and as such was elected vicar bishop of Srem on 8 December 1939. He was ordained bishop on 28 January 1940 in Sremski Karlovci by Gavrilo V, Serbian Patriarch, Metropolitan Josif Cvijović of Skopje (1936-1957), and Bishop Vikentije of Zletovo-Strumica. And as a vicar bishop, Valerijan retained the administration of the Jazak Monastery.

Vicar Bishop Valerijan (Pribićević) died on 10 July 1941 in Split, where he was temporarily buried in the tomb of his friend Miloš Jelaska. After World War II, more precisely in 1959, he was transferred to the Jazak Monastery and buried near the monastery church.

See more

• Svetozar Pribićević
• Milan Pribićević
• Adam Pribićević
• Stoyan Pribichevich (Stojan Pribicevic)

References

"Banija". "Politika", 9 Dec. 1939

Literature

• Krestić, Vasilije (1991). History of Serbs in Croatia and Slavonia 1848-1914. Belgrade: Politika.
• Pribićević, Stojan (1991) On the Pribićevićs, Collection of Works: Dvor na Una, from Pre-Slavic Times to Our Days, Dvor na Una 1991.
• Sava, Bishop of Šumadija (1996). SERBIAN HIERARCHS from the 9th to the 20th Century, Belgrade: EVRO.

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