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The Eparchy of Križevci is the only proper dicoese of the Croatian Greek Catholic Church, a Byzantine Rite church organization, which further consists solely of the exempt Croatian Apostolic Exarchate of Serbia. It was listed as part of Byzantine Church of Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, a recognized sui iuris Catholic Church in the ''Annuario Pontificio ''among the Eastern Catholic Churches of Constantinopolitan or Byzantine tradition.〔''Annuario Pontificio 2012'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2012 ISBN 978-88-209-8722-0), p. 1140〕 This Unitae church, using theld Church Slavonic language in its liturgy, included of the eparchy (diocese) of Križevci, which is in Croatia but also covers Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Apostolic Exarchate of Serbia and Montenegro.〔2012 edition (ISBN 978-88-209-8722-0), p. 1140〕 It spans the former Yugoslav republics of Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina; it mostly gathers its faithful among the Croats in central and eastern Croatia and among the Rusyns and/or Ukrainians in eastern Croatia and northern Bosnia, with a small Serbian minority. The liturgy is the Slavonic form of the Byzantine Rite, using the Old Church Slavonic language and the Cyrillic alphabet. The eparchy of Križevci is currently headed by Bishop Nikola Kekić (appointed 2009). == Background == (詳細はOttoman wars in Europe caused a number of Christian refugees, Orthodox Serbs, to migrate to the Military Frontier of the Habsburg Monarchy (in south-central Croatia and in most of Slavonia) during the 16th and 17th centuries. In particular after the Ottoman defeat in Battle of Sisak of 1593, the Habsburg tried to established an ecclesiastical jurisdiction in full communion with Rome and separated from the Serbian Orthodox Church. After negotiations, it was decided to establish a Byzantine Rite episcopacy based in the monastery of Marča (located near Ivanić Grad). This bishopric was formally erected by Pope Paul V on 21 November 1611 with the decree ''Divinae Majestatis arbitrio'', and the eparchs (bishops) bore the title ''Episcopus Platæensis'' (from Plataea, the titular see they were assigned to), while the Habsburg government called this see ''Episcopatus Svidnicensis'' or ''Episcopatus Maciensum'' (Eparchy of Marča). After the death in 1630 of the first eparch (bishop), Simeon Vratanja, and in 1628 of the Latin Bishop of Zagreb, Petar Dimitrović, the eparchy came into conflict with the Latins and in 1671 bishop Pavle Zorčić accepted for himself and his successors the position of vicar-general of the Latin bishops of Zagreb.〔 On 17 November 1735, the supporters of the Serbian Orthodox Church occupied by force of arms the monastery of Marča and two years later, on 17 June 1737, set fire to it. The monastery was restored to the Byzantine-Rite Catholics in 1753.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eparchy of Križevci (Eastern Catholic)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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