Varaždin Apostol

The Varaždin Apostol (Serbian Cyrillic: Вараждински апостол, Croatian: Varaždinski apostol) is a hand-written Orthodox liturgical book written in 1454.^[1] It is named after the northern Croatian city of Varaždin. The book represents the oldest preserved text in Cyrillic from the territory of today's Croatia.^[1] It contains the Acts of the Apostles and the New Testament epistles, and is kept today in the Museum of Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade, Serbia.^[1] The Varaždin Apostol was made by three transcribers of Countess Kantakuzina Katarina Branković, daughter of the Serbian despot Đurađ Branković and his wife Irene Kantakouzene, and the wife of Ulrich II, Count of Celje.^[1] The text is written in the Resava orthography (Manasija monastery) with elements of the Raška orthography and the Mount Athos redaction, too.^[2] The language is the Serbian dialect of Old Church Slavonic.^[3] On the occasion of the 550th anniversary of the Apostol, the Serbian Orthodox Church issued a limited edition of 300 copies.^[2] As a gift from the Metropolitanate of Zagreb and Ljubljana, copies went to, among others, Serbian Patriarch Pavle, Croatian president Stjepan Mesić, the Lepavina Monastery, and the Celje city archive.^[3][4][5]

See also

• List of medieval Serbian literature
• Metropolitanate of Zagreb and Ljubljana
• Serbs of Croatia

References

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Serbian Orthodox Church in Croatia

Eparchies

• Metropolitanate of Zagreb and Ljubljana
• Eparchy of Dalmatia
• Eparchy of Gornji Karlovac
• Eparchy of Osječko polje and Baranja
• Eparchy of Slavonia
• Eparchy of Srem (partly in Croatia)
• Eparchy of Zahumlje and Herzegovina (partly in Croatia)

Churches

Eastern Croatia	Church of the Holy Venerable Mother Parascheva Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, Trpinja Church of St. Nicholas, Vukovar Church of Pentecost, Vinkovci Church of St. George, Kneževo Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos, Negoslavci Church of Pentecost, Markušica Church of St. George, Bobota Church of St. Stephen, Borovo Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos, Srijemske Laze Church of St. Peter and Paul, Bolman Church of St. Stefan Štiljanović, Karanac Church of St. Nicholas, Mirkovci Church of St. Panteleimon, Mirkovci Church of St. Nicholas, Mikluševci Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos, Gaboš Church of St. Nicholas, Jagodnjak Church of St. Demetrius, Dalj Church of St. Nicholas, Pačetin Church of St. George, Tovarnik Church of St. Elijah, Novi Jankovci Church of St. Peter and Paul, Orolik Church of the Presentation of Mary, Čakovci Church of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, Ostrovo Church of the Saint Archangel Michael, Darda Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God, Osijek Church of the Presentation of Mary, Popovac Church of St. George, Opatovac Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, Šarengrad Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, Mohovo Church of St. Michael the Archangel, Ilok Church of the Transfer of the relics of the Holy Father Nicholas, Bijelo Brdo
Central Croatia	Serbian Orthodox Cathedral, Zagreb Church of St. George, Grubišno Polje Church of St. Nicholas, Karlovac Church of Saint Parascheva, Slabinja Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos, Drežnica Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, Štikada Church of St. George, Varaždin
Dalmatia North Adriatic	Church of the Holy Annunciation, Dubrovnik Orthodox Church in Knin Church of St. Peter and Paul, Tepljuh St. Spyridon Church, Peroj Church of St. Nicholas, Rijeka Church of St. Nicholas, Vrlika Orthodox church of Holy Salvation, Cetina

Monasteries

• Dragović
• Gomirje
• Komogovina (Komogovina School)
• Krka
• Krupa
• Lepavina
• Sv. Lazarica
• Orahovica
• Sv. Nedjelje
• Sv. Petke
• St. Basil of Ostrog

Education

• Kantakuzina Katarina Branković Serbian Orthodox Secondary School (Zagreb)
• Seminary of Three Holy Hierarchs (Krka monastery)

Other

• Order of Kantakuzina Katarina Branković
• Varaždin Apostol