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Archives of the Serbian Orthodox Church
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The Archives of the Serbian Orthodox Church (Serbian: Архив Српске православне цркве, romanized: Arhiv Srpske pravoslavne crkve)[2] is the central repository archives of the Serbian Orthodox Church, located in Belgrade, Serbia.
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The archivse developed on the foundations of the central archives of the Metropolitanate of Belgrade after the 1920 reunification of the Patriarchate of Karlovci in the Habsburg monarchy, the Metropolitanate of Belgrade in the Kingdom of Serbia, and the Metropolitanate of Montenegro in the Principality of Montenegro into single Serbian Orthodox Church within the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.[citation needed]
The archives primarily contain important documents from the early 19th century onwards crucial for understanding the ecclesiastical and secular history.[3] The archives receive support in their work from the Ministry of Culture and the Directorate for Cooperation with Churches and Religious Communities.[4] The archives in their current form of an independent institution were developed only in 2007 and the agreement between the Church with the Ministry of Culture and the State Archives of Serbia which ensured personnel and appropriate staff to manage archival work missing within the church hierarchy.[5]
The archival materials were initially kept at the residence of the Archbishop of Serbia and Metropolitan of Belgrade until 1935 when they were transferred to Kralja Petra I Street 5.[5] The central facilities of the archive at the Kralja Petra Street in Belgrade hold just a fraction of the total collection of the archives, which spans two to three kilometres in length.[6] Remaining archival collection was moved from the Building of the Patriarchate to the gallery of the St. Mark's Church in 1989.[6] The unprofessional transport of the archives led to many items being scattered, and some documents disappeared without a trace.[5] For nearly two and a half decades, the valuable archive, which provides insights into the ecclesiastical, social, demographic, diplomatic, and political history of modern Serbia and Serb people in neighbouring countries, remained in dust, neglected and uncared for motivating state institutions to get involved.[5] The formal agreement was signed on 14 December 2007 with Serbian Orthodox Church represented by the Metropolitan Bishop of Montenegro and the Littoral Amfilohije Radović and state institutions by the Minister of Culture, Vojislav Brajović, and the director of the State Archives of Serbia, Miroslav Perišić.[5] In 2019, this material was moved from the St. Mark's Church to the newly reconstructed Svetosavski dom building in Zemun, building built between 1907 and 1909 and listed as a cultural monument in its own rights.[3]
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