Published book by Dr. Milosav Đoković „LE RELAZIONI POLITICO-ECCLESIASTICHE TRA LA SANTA SEDE E LA SERBIA DAL 1878 AL 1918ˮ

The book "Le relazioni politico-ecclesiastiche tra la Santa Sede e la Serbia dal 1878 al 1918" by Dr. Milosav Đoković, research associate of the Institute for Balkan Studies SASA, was published in the edition of the Pontifical Gregorian University as part of the prestigious series of Miscellanea Historiae Pontificiae (volume 74).

The book represents a doctoral dissertation defended at the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome in 2019, and is the result of years of research, especially in various Vatican archives. The author deals with the most significant events in Vatican-Serbian relations in the period from the Berlin Congress (1878) to the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians (1918). Special attention is paid to the issue of long-term negotiations related to the concordat, which was signed in 1914 and its short life and problems after its signature; the activities of the two delegates of the Serbian government to the Holy See (Gavrilović and Bakotić) and the support that the Holy See provided to the Serbs during the First World War.

 

Some other interesting topics covered in the book:

• King Alexander’s visit to Pope Leo XIII in 1896;

• Correspondence of monarchs from the Obrenović and Karađorđević dynasties with Roman popes (some of which have been published for the first time);

• Queen Natalia’s conversion to Catholicism (1902).