Wikipedia's article on Eastern Orthodoxy in Serbia, read directly for this pass, which states that the Ecumenical Patriarch persuaded the Ottoman Sultan to abolish the Patriarchate of Pec on 11 September 1766, placing Serbian Orthodox believers under Constantinople's direct jurisdiction, and that the previously separate Serbian Orthodox jurisdictions were united and the patriarchate reestablished in 1920 following the 1918 unification of Serb lands into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
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A community-edited tertiary reference, not peer-reviewed, but the 1766 abolition and 1920 restoration are settled Balkan ecclesiastical history corroborated across the outside search results read alongside it, with no live dispute over either date. NotesCited for the 11 September 1766 abolition of the Patriarchate of Pec and its 1920 reestablishment.
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodoxy_in_Serbia
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