Eparchy of Bačka


The Eparchy of Bačka is an eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Bačka region, Serbia. It is situated in north-western parts of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, and the seat of the eparchy is at Saint George's Cathedral in Novi Sad.
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History

During the Middle Ages, old counties of Bács and Bodrog belonged to the Kingdom of Hungary, that had ambivalent attitudes towards the presence of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in its southern and eastern regions, depending on political relations with the Byzantine Empire, and medieval Serbia. By the end of the 15th century, Serbian presence in those regions was gradually enlarged by continuous migrations that were caused by Ottoman invasion of Serbian lands.
The Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Bačka was established in the 16th century, under the jurisdiction of the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć. In the beginning, the seat of the bishop was in Segedin, the capital city of the Ottoman Sanjak of Segedin. Diocesan seat was later moved to various monasteries in Bačka proper, and was finally stabilized in Novi Sad in the beginning of the 18th century. By that time, the region of Bačka was liberated from Ottoman rule and incorporated into the Habsburg monarchy. Since 1708, the eparchy belonged to the Serbian Orthodox Metropolitanate of Krušedol, independent after 1766. In 1918, its territory was incorporated into the newly established Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and in 1920 the eparchy entered into the reunited Serbian Orthodox Church.

Territory

The eparchy includes entire Serbian part of Bačka, but also has supreme authority over some territories in present-day Hungary, including counties Bács-Kiskun, Csongrád and Heves.

Bishops and metropolitans

Monasteries belonging to the eparchy