Clerical High School of Saint Arsenije
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Serbia
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n Clerical High School, founded three years after the Gymnasium of Karlovci
Gymnasium of Karlovci
The Gymnasium of Karlovci or the High School of Karlovci, located in the town of Sremski Karlovci in Serbia, is the oldest Serbian secondary school on the slopes of Fruška Gora. This type of school is comparable to U.S...
by Mitropolitan Stefan Stratimirović
Stefan Stratimirović
Stefan Stratimirović was Metropolitan of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Austrian Empire between 1790 and 1836. Having been appointed Metropolitan at the age of 33, Stratimirović maintained control over church life decisively and autonomously...
. The second half of the 19th century represent the golden age in the history of this school, when Ilarion Ruvarac
Ilarion Ruvarac
Ilarion Ruvarac was historian and Orthodox priest, a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts . Ruvarac introduced the critical methods into Serbian historiography. He was archimandrite of Grgeteg monastery...
became the rector
Rector
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, and Jovan Živković was one of the professors. In that period one of the first departments for bee keeping was established in the school. The Clerical school was closed in 1914, after the World War I
World War I
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reestablished in Belgrade
Belgrade
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. The modern Clerical school called "Saint Arsenije Sremac" was founded in 1964, in the Palace of the Common funds, built at the beginning of the 20th century by Patriarch
Patriarch
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Georgije Branković.