Metropolitan Đorđe Nikolajević and the problem of preserving serbian ecclesiastical-national interests in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the end of the XIX century

The socio-political, national-identity and church conditions in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the first decades of the Austro-Hungarian occupation were extremely complex. In these intricate relations, the only organization that had a national character and the responsibility to protect and preserve the Serbian identity-religious uniqueness was the Orthodox Church. However, in a situation where the Orthodox dioceses in Bosnia and Herzegovina had a semi-autonomous status within the Patriarchate of Constantinople with special rights of the Viennese court towards them, the position and circumstances in which that church could operate become clearer to us. In this regard, the question of a specific person who would uphold the throne of the Dabro-Bosnian metropolitans as the most respected chair in Bosnia and Herzegovina was of exceptional importance.