Josif Raja\u010di\u0107\u2019s family moved to the north-western part of the Lika region at the end of 17th century, when Prince Rajak led many people from Banjaluka to the area between Brinje, Oto\u010dac and Senj in Lika. After two years of studying philosophy with the Piarists (a Catholic educational order) in Hungary’s Szeged, Raja\u010di\u0107 travelled to Vienna to study Latin, arts and higher learning. When the French, who were then at war with Austria, came close to Vienna in 1809, Raja\u010di\u0107 joined the students\u2019 battalion. At the invitation of the Orthodox Bishop of Banjaluka Mojsije Miokovi\u0107, he soon entered a monastic order and became the Archimandrite of the Gomirje monastery. In 1829, he was appointed Episcope of the Dalmatia Eparchy. Immediately upon his arrival in \u0160ibenik, Raja\u010di\u0107 established a clerical school and opened a similar one in Dubrovnik soon after.<\/p>\n
By a Court Chancellor\u2019s decision, he became the Episcope of Vr\u0161ac in 1833 and after death of Stefan Stankovi\u0107 in 1842, the Austrian Emperor appointed him Metropolitan of Karlovac. Raja\u010di\u0107 gained prominence at that time thanks to an important speech at the Upper House of the Po\u017eun Sabor (parliament). In that speech, he emphasised that Serb people, regardless of all the privileges granted them by emperors Leopold II<\/strong>, Joseph I<\/strong>, Charles VI<\/strong> and Maria Theresa, remained in a subordinated position.<\/p>\n Related to revolutionary movements in 1848, Raja\u010di\u0107 called a people’s assembly \u2013 the so-called May Assembly in May of that, where participants elected him Patriarch and Stevan \u0160upljikac of the Ogulin regiment Duke. The following conclusions were reached at the May Assembly:<\/p>\n Although a vast majority of Serbs in the first flush of rapture accepted conclusions of the May Assembly, there were still some who considered them dangerous. A democratic current in Croatia, primarily the intellectuals and youth in Zagreb, sincerely welcomed an alliance with Vojvodina Serbs and accepted the May Assembly\u2019s decisions, while those more conservative shunned the alliance. Emperor Ferdinand and the Hungarian government did not recognize demands of the May Assembly. The Austrian emperor repaid the Serbs for their participation in the war against Hungarians only later, in 1849, by establishing the Serbian Voivodeship and Banat of Temeschwar (a dutchy) which also encompassed two Syrmia districts \u2013 Ilok and Ruma.<\/p>\n During a counterrevolution at the time of Bach\u2019s Absolutism (1849 \u2014 1860), Raja\u010di\u0107 stood firmly by the Austrian authorities. He took it hard when the Serbian Voivodeship was abolished in 1860, and sent a note of protest to the emperor. In a letter written in his own hand, the emperor approved holding a Church-National Assembly, which opened on 2 April 1861 (the so-called Annunciation Assembly). This assembly’s task was to present conditions under which it would agree to an annexation the previously abolished Serbian Voivodeship and Banat of Temeschwar to the Kingdom of Hungary. Patriarch Raja\u010di\u0107 died on 1 December that same year, 1861, and was buried in the Karlovac Cathedral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Related to revolutionary movements in 1848, Raja\u010di\u0107 called a people’s assembly \u2013 the so-called May Assembly in May of that, where participants elected him Patriarch and Stevan \u0160upljikac of the Ogulin regiment Duke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1200,"template":"","pozicija":[],"class_list":["post-1199","znameniti-srbi","type-znameniti-srbi","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n