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Josif Rajacic (July 20, 1785– July 1, 1861, Cyrillic
Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic alphabet is a family of alphabets, subsets of which are used by five Slavic languages national languages as well as non-Slavic . It is also used by many other languages of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Siberia and other languages in the past....
: ????? ???????, also known as Josif Rajacic-Brinski) was a metropolitan of Sremski Karlovci
Sremski Karlovci

Sremski Karlovci is a town and municipality in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia, situated on the bank of the river Danube, 8 km from Novi Sad....
, Serbian patriarch, administrator of Serbian Vojvodina
Serbian Vojvodina

The Serbian Vojvodina was a Serbian autonomous region within the Austrian Empire. It was proclaimed during the Revolutions of 1848, and existed until 1849, when it was transformed into the new province named Serbian Voivodship and Tami? Banat....
 and baron.

Life
Rajacic was born in Lucani (Croatia
Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
), and died in Sremski Karlovci (Vojvodina
Vojvodina

The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an Subdivisions of Serbia in Serbia, containing about 27% of its total population according to the 2002 Census....
, Serbia
Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
).






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Josif Rajacic
Josif Rajacic (July 20, 1785– July 1, 1861, Cyrillic
Cyrillic alphabet

The Cyrillic alphabet is a family of alphabets, subsets of which are used by five Slavic languages national languages as well as non-Slavic . It is also used by many other languages of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Siberia and other languages in the past....
: ????? ???????, also known as Josif Rajacic-Brinski) was a metropolitan of Sremski Karlovci
Sremski Karlovci

Sremski Karlovci is a town and municipality in the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia, situated on the bank of the river Danube, 8 km from Novi Sad....
, Serbian patriarch, administrator of Serbian Vojvodina
Serbian Vojvodina

The Serbian Vojvodina was a Serbian autonomous region within the Austrian Empire. It was proclaimed during the Revolutions of 1848, and existed until 1849, when it was transformed into the new province named Serbian Voivodship and Tami? Banat....
 and baron.

Life


Rajacic was born in Lucani (Croatia
Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
), and died in Sremski Karlovci (Vojvodina
Vojvodina

The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an Subdivisions of Serbia in Serbia, containing about 27% of its total population according to the 2002 Census....
, Serbia
Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
). At the May assembly of Serbs
Serbs

Serbs are a South Slavs people living in the Balkans and Central Europe, mainly in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and, to a lesser extent, in Croatia....
 in Sremski Karlovci in 1848, he was proclaimed for the Serbian patriarch. Josif Rajacic was not only the spiritual, but also the political and military leader of Serbs.

He became administrator of Serbian Vojvodina, and was on the head of the new Serb government (praviteljstvo) of Vojvodina. Rajacic formed an alliance with the Habsburg
Habsburg

The House of Habsburg was an important royal house of Europe and is best known as supplying all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1452 and 1740, as well as rulers of Spanish Empire and the Austrian Empire....
s in notion to crush the Hungarian revolution
Revolutions of 1848

The European Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Spring of Nations or the Year of Revolution, were a series of political upheavals throughout the European continent....
. After the Hungarians were defeated, Austrians nominated Rajacic for the civil commissary for Vojvodina.

Rajacic helped in educational development of the Serb people in the Habsburg Monarchy
Habsburg Monarchy

The Habsburg Monarchy covered the territories ruled by the junior Austria branch of the House of Habsburg , and then by the successor House of Habsburg-Lorraine , between 1526 and 1867/1918....
. In the time when he was metropolitan of Sremski Karlovci, many new Serbian schools were opened. He also opened patriarchal library and the printing house. Rajacic spent much of his energy to help that Vojvodina come under the administration of the Serb people.

On June 5, 1848, on the occasion of the inauguration of Josip Jelacic
Josip Jelacic

Count Josip Jelacic of Bu?im was the Ban of Croatia between March 23, 1848 and May 19, 1859. Jelacic was a noted army general, remembered for his military campaigns during the Revolutions of 1848 and for his abolition of serfdom in Croatia....
 as Croatia-Slavonia ban, in the absence of Bishop Haulik, who had removed himself from Zagreb, it was in front of the Patriarch Rajacic that the Ban took his oath of office.

See also

  • Vojvodina
    Vojvodina

    The Autonomous Province of Vojvodina is an Subdivisions of Serbia in Serbia, containing about 27% of its total population according to the 2002 Census....
  • Rulers of Vojvodina
    Rulers of Vojvodina

    This is a list of local rulers of Vojvodina. The list also include local rulers of Banat, Backa and Srem, including parts of mentioned regions, which are not part of present-day Vojvodina, as well as other rulers of larger political units that had specific local ties to territory of present-day Vojvodina....
  • History of Vojvodina
    History of Vojvodina

    This is a history of Vojvodina.Vojvodina is the Serbian name for the territory of Northern Serbia, consisting of the southern part of the Pannonian Plain....
  • History of Serbia
    History of Serbia

    One of the first Serbian states, Ra?ka , was founded in the first half of the 7th century on Byzantine territory by the Unknown Archont, the founder of the House of Vlastimirovic; it evolved into the Serbian Empire under the House of Nemanjic....
  • Serbian Orthodox Church
    Serbian Orthodox Church

    The Serbian Orthodox Church or the Church of Serbia is one of the autocephalyEastern Orthodox Church organization, ranking sixth in order of seniority after Orthodox Church of Constantinople, Greek Church of Alexandria, Church of Antioch, Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, and Russian Orthodox Church....


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