Gerasim Adamović

Gerasim Adamović (Serbian: Герасим Адамовић, Romanian: Gherasim Adamovici; 1733–1796) was Serbia-born Eastern Orthodox bishop of Transylvania (1789–1796) when it was under Austria-Hungary rule.[1][2][3]

Portrait of Bishop Gherasim Adamovici (author unknown)

Biography

Gerasim Adamović was born in a Serbian city of Šikloš (now is Southern Hungary).[4]

During 1779–1783 he was archimandrite of the Sveti Đurađ monastery in Birda (Манастир Светог великомученика Георгија, also Шенђурац на Брзави).[3][2] He was also archimandrite of the Serbian Bezdin Monastery (1783–1789).[4]

He was one of the signatories of the second, expanded version of Supplex Libellus Valachorum, a petition for Romanians (valachorum) of Transylvania to be equal in political, economic and religious rights to the privileged groups: Transylvanian nobles, Transylvanian Saxons (Germans), and Székelys (Hungarians).[2][5]

Adamović was the last Serbian Bishop of Transylvania.[2] He had residence in the village of Rășinari near Sibiu[1]

References
  1. Герасим Адамовић, from Народна енциклопедија српско-хрватско-словеначка, прва књига, 1929.
  2. Ljubivoje Cerović, "SÂRBII DIN ROMÂNIA. Din evul mediu timpuriu până în zilele noastre" (Translated from Serbian book: Љубивоје Церовић, Срби у Румунији од раног средњег века до данашњег времена, Савез Срба у Румунији, Темишвар, 2000.), 2005,
  3. Иван М. (игуман Јустин) Стојановић, МАНАСТИРИ ТЕМИШВАРСКЕ ЕПАРХИЈЕ – ЦЕНТРИ ВЕРСКОГ И КУЛТУРНОГ ЖИВОТА СРБА У РУМУНИЈИ doi:10.46630/ish.8.2022.18, p.287
  4. Ljubomir Stepanov, Stevan Bugarski, Manastir Bezdin. Kratki prikaz, 2003, ISBN 9738402182, p.49
  5. Ioan Lupaș, Misiunea episcopilor Gherasim Adamovici și Ioan Bob la Curtea din Viena în anul 1792, Sibiu, 1912
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