Kalinik I Skopljanac was the Patriarch of Peć

Patriarch of Serbia

This is a list of the Archbishops and Patriarchs of Peć and the Serbs from the creation of the church as an archdiocese in 1219 to today's Patriarchate. The list includes all the Archbishops and Patriarchs that led the Serbian Orthodox community under Patriarchate of Peć...

 from 1691 until 1710. He became the spiritual leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church

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 in difficult circumstances, following the exodus of the Serbs

Serbs

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 to the Kingdom of Hungary

Kingdom of Hungary

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 (which was under the Habsburg Monarchy

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), in the First Great Migration of the Serbs, under the leadership of his predecessor Arsenije III Čarnojević

Arsenije III Carnojevic

Arsenije III Čarnojević was the Archbishop of Peć and Patriarch of Serbs from 1674 to 1691 and Metropolitan of Szentendre from 1691 to his death in 1706.-Family:Arsenije was born to the Cetinje clan of Old Montenegro...

. He managed to maintain the existence and independence of the Patriarchate of Peć

Patriarchate of Pec

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 within the Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

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, despite the difficult position of the remaining Serbs, who had not fled north.