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Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, Šarengrad

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The Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord (Croatian: Hram Uznesenja Gospodnjeg, Serbian Cyrillic: Храм Вазнесења Господњег) in Šarengrad is a Serbian Orthodox church in eastern Croatia. The church was built between 1791 and 1800. The church is located in the centre of the village next to the main D2 road between Vukovar and Bačka Palanka and near the Danube river. Before the construction of the contemporary building there was an older and smaller Serbian Orthodox church in the village which was built in 1704. The first historical records on the intention to build the new church come from 1781 when at the time Vukovar Estates plenipotentiary Michael Cseh wrote to Count Hugo Philippus Eltz on the issue of production of materials for the new building. The full construction cost of the building was 5600 forints which was comparatively low price at the time and with the majority of costs being covered by parish itself. The Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord was built in a period of intensive activities on building new and upgrading existing Orthodox churches in what is now eastern Croatia with bell towers being built at the Church in Negoslavci and Marinci, reconstruction of the...

- Damjanović, Dragan (2014). "Pravoslavna crkva u Šarengradu - primjer barokno-klasicističkoga Gesamtkunstwerka". Scrinia Slavonica (in Croatian). 14 (1). Department for the History of Slavonia, Srijem and Baranja of the Croatian Institute of History: 107– 128. Retrieved 13 December 2022 – via Hrčak. Serbian Orthodox churches Canonical territory

Diaspora * Church in Kosovo, which is the subject of a territorial dispute between Serbia and Kosovo. ** The Eparchy of Timișoara (covering Romania) and the Eparchy of Buda (covering Hungary), whose jurisdiction is limited to ethnic Serbs in those countries, are regarded as part of the traditional jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Church, but stricto sensu are not within its canonical territory. Serbian Orthodox Church in Croatia Eparchies

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- Catholic clergy involvement with the Ustaše

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- Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia (1995–98)

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