CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN GLIGORIJE JEFTANOVIĆ AND THE GREAT ADMINISTRATIVE AND EDUCATIONAL COUNCIL IN 1919

Abstract

The paper follows the correspondence between Gligorije Jeftanović and the Great Administrative and Educational Council in the year 1919. The first part of the text presents the correspondence where the Great Administrative and Educational Council requests an opinion from Jeftanović about the secession of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Constantinople Patriarchate and merging with the Serbian Patriarchate. The second part of the text presents the correspondence that concerned Jeftanović’s membership in the Great Administrative and Educational Council and his pre-war position as the Deputy Chairman of the Great Administrative and Educational Council, from which he was removed by the occupation Austro-Hungarian authorities during the First World War and, as he claimed in the correspondence, with the assistance of people from the Great Administrative and Educational Council.

Keywords

• gligorije jeftanović, serbian orthodox church, kingdom of serbs, croats and slovenes (kingdom of shs), bosnia and herzegovina, the great administrative and educational council