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19-818: Braničevo may refer to: Braničevo (region)  [ sr ] , a region in Serbia Braničevo Fortress , a fortress in Serbia, in Selo Kostolac Braničevo District , a district in Serbia Braničevo (Golubac) , a village in Serbia, in the municipality of Golubac Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Braničevo , an eparchy (diocese) of the Serbian Orthodox Church Siege of Braničevo (1154) Braničevo (magazine) ,

38-571: A diocese in Western Christianity . An eparchy is governed by an eparch , who is a bishop . Depending on the administrative structure of a specific Eastern Church, an eparchy can belong to an ecclesiastical province (usually a metropolis ), but it can also be exempt. Each eparchy is divided into parishes , in the same manner as a diocese in Western Churches. Historical development of eparchies in various Eastern Churches

57-585: A literary magazine published in Požarevac since 1955 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Braničevo . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Braničevo&oldid=1105462780 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

76-730: A part of the First Bulgarian Empire . After the conquest of Bulgaria, the Byzantines established the Theme of Sirmium in the wider region south of the river Danube . By the 12th century, Braničevo was the centre of a Byzantine doukaton (duchy) governed by a doux (duke). The region saw significant fighting between the Byzantines and Hungarians . With the rise of the Second Bulgarian Empire and

95-433: Is an abstract noun , formed with an intensive prefix ( ἐπι- , epi- , lit.   ' over- ' + ἄρχειν , árchein , lit.   ' to be ruler ' ). It is commonly Latinized as eparchia . The term can be loosely translated as the rule over something (literally: an overlordship). The term had various meanings and multiple uses throughout history, mainly in politics and administration, starting from

114-504: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Brani%C4%8Devo (region) It is named after the village of Braničevo . In the 9th century, a Slavic tribe known as Braničevci are mentioned living in the region. In this time, the town named Braničevo also existed in the area, at the estuary of the river Mlava into Danube . In the Early Middle Ages, Braničevo became

133-801: Is used in local variants, and also has various equivalents in local languages. Eparchies of the main Eastern Orthodox churches: In the Eastern Catholic Churches , eparchy is equivalent to a diocese of the Latin Church , and its bishop can be called an eparch (equivalent to a diocesan of the Latin Church). Similarly, an archeparchy is equivalent to an archdiocese of the Latin Church and its bishop can be called an archeparch (equivalent to an archbishop of

152-683: The Hellenistic period , and continuing throughout the Roman era . In the Greco-Roman world , it was used as a Greek equivalent for the Latin term provincia , denoting province , the main administrative unit of the Roman Empire . The same use was employed in the early Byzantine Empire until major administrative reforms that were undertaken between the 7th and 9th centuries, abolishing

171-775: The Kingdom of Serbia , Byzantium's position in Braničevo became untenable. It appears to have finally slipped from their control in 1198. It was a frequent object of contention between the Bulgars, Serbs and Hungarians thereafter. In the 13th century the Hungarians established the Banate of Braničevo (Hungarian: Barancsi Bánság), but later in the century two local Bulgarian rulers, Darman and Kudelin , became independent and ruled over Braničevo and Kučevo . In 1291, they were defeated by

190-717: The Serbian king, Stefan Dragutin , who joined Braničevo to his Syrmian Kingdom . Under his rule the town of Braničevo became a seat of the Eparchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church . The region later belonged to subsequent Serbian states, until it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century. In the 14th century, the region was in a possession of local rulers from the House of Rastislalić . During

209-630: The Ottoman rule, Braničevo was part of the Sanjak of Smederevo , and since 19th century, it is again part of the Serbian state. In the mid-nineteenth century, at the time of the Serbian state emancipation, Požarevac became, along with Kragujevac , the second metropolis of Prince Miloš Obrenović . During his lifetime, Prince Miloš Obrenović had erected monuments to his memory in Požarevac: Some of

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228-783: The Roman Rite). Individual eparchies of some Eastern Catholic Churches may be suffragan to Latin Church metropolitans. For example, the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Križevci is suffragan to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Zagreb . Also, some minor Eastern Catholic churches have Latin prelates. For example, the Macedonian Greek Catholic Church is organized as a single Eparchy of Strumica-Skopje , whose present ordinary

247-565: The final consolidation of the provincial (metropolitan) system in the 4th century. The First Ecumenical Council (325) confirmed (Canon IV) that all bishops of each civil province should be grouped in one ecclesiastical province , headed by a metropolitan (bishop of the provincial capital). Since civil provinces were called eparchies in Greek, the same term was used to define ecclesiastical provinces. Such use became customary, and metropolitan provinces came to be known as eparchies . Throughout

266-703: The late antiquity and the early medieval period, within Eastern Orthodox terminology, the term eparchy remained a common designation for a metropolitan province i.e. metropolis ( Greek : μητρόπολις , Latin : metropolis ). During the later medieval period, terminology started to shift, particularly within the Patriarchate of Constantinople . The process of title-inflation that was affecting Byzantine bureaucracy and aristocracy also gained momentum in ecclesiastical circles. In order to promote centralization, patriarchal authorities started to multiply

285-590: The numbers of metropolitans by elevating local bishops to honorary metropolitan ranks without giving them any real metropolitan powers, and making them directly appointed and thus more dependent on Constantinople. As a consequence, the use of the word eparchy was expanded to include not only proper metropolitan provinces, but also the newly created honorary metropolitan sees that were no real provinces, and thus no different then simple bishoprics except in honorary titles and ranks. In spite of that, such honorary metropolitan sees also came to be called eparchies . This process

304-645: The old provincial system. In modern times, the term was also employed within administrative systems of some countries, like Greece and Cyprus . Since it was commonly used as the main Greek designation for an administrative province of the Roman Empire, the term eparchy consequently gained an additional use among Greek-speaking Christians , denoting ecclesiastical structures on the provincial level of Church administration, within Eastern Christianity . Such terminological borrowing resulted from

323-519: The places of cultural importance in Požarevac are: The district encompasses the municipalities of: According to the 2011 census results, the Braničevo District has a population of 183,625 inhabitants. Ethnic composition of the Braničevo district: Eparchy Eparchy ( Greek : ἐπαρχία eparchía "overlordship") is an ecclesiastical unit in Eastern Christianity that is equivalent to

342-530: Was marked by local distinctions that can be observed in modern ecclesiastical practices of the Eastern Orthodox Church , Oriental Orthodox Churches and Eastern Catholic Churches . The English word eparchy is an anglicized term that comes from the original Greek word ( Koinē Greek : ἐπαρχία , romanized:  eparchía , lit.   'overlordship', Byzantine Greek pronunciation: [e.parˈçi.a] ). It

361-578: Was systematically promoted, thus resulting in a major terminological shift. Since the fragmentation of the original metropolitan provinces into several titular metropolises that were also referred to as eparchies , the Patriarchate of Constantinople became more centralized, and such structure has remained up to the present day. Similar ecclesiastical terminology is also employed by other autocephalous and autonomous churches within Eastern Orthodox community . In those who are non-Greek, term eparchy

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