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ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC PAPER

THE ADOPTION OF THE FIRST CONSTITUTION OF

THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN 1931
by
DRAGAN NOVAKOVI
Republic of Serbia Government
Office for Cooperation with Churches and Religious Communities
11 Nemanjina Street, Belgrade, Serbia
E-mail: dragan.novakovic@vere.gov.rs

SUMMARY: The process of adoption of the Constitution of the Serbian Orthodox

Church, after its unification and elevation to the rank of Patriarchate, has been analyzed. During ten years of work it was necessary to overcome and solve numerous and
complex problems that had the internal church character or came from the political sphere.
Among the first to dominate were different theoretical and canonical standpoints about
the body with power to prepare the text of the Constitution and the institution with the
full legitimate authority for its adoption. There was also a dissatisfaction of the people
in Bosnia and Herzegovina unwilling to relinquish historically acquired rights to directly
elect representatives of the ecclesiastical self-governing bodies and accept increasingly
emphasized efforts to transfer all church affairs to the Episcopate. Other issue was directly
related to the current political events and its main driver was the unwillingness of the
ruling Serbian elite to accept the Constitution which would result in a greater autonomy
of the Church and elimination of state control mechanisms. After a lengthy discussion a
text was adopted as a compromise, which enabled the consolidation of church unity, the
establishment of the planned organization and the assumption of jurisdiction from all the
bodies and institutions envisaged in the Constitution, but also gave the state a significant
influence on some important areas of church life.

KEYWORDS: Constitution, Serbian Orthodox Church, state, autonomous

rights, canonical approach