Századok – 2013

MŰHELY - Ternovácz Bálint: A szerémi latin püspökség alapításának és korai történetének vitás kérdései II/457

470 TERNOVÁCZ BÁLINT The seat of the bishopric at the time of the foundation bccame the town of Ko along the Danube, where the cathedral chapter of Saint Stephen the Prothomartyr was established. The creation of the dioecese probably served missionary purposes. In the 13th and 14th centuries it comprised the whole part of Sirmium which lay south of the Sava river, and certain areas of the part which was bordered by the Danube and the Sava. On the basis of our sources four archdeanries of the diocese of Sirmium can be identified: that of Pazova between the Danube and the Sava, and those of Obona, Belyén and Egyházaspolya beyond the Sava. The cathedral chapter of Saint Irineus - as a second episcopal seat - was established upon the request of the bishop of Sirmium after the Mongol destruction of 1241-1242. The fact that the new seat was built on the island of the Sava, that is, at Saint Irineus in the part of Sirmium beyond the Sava, can probably be connected to the southward expansion and consequently incresing presence of Hungary there. Corresponding to the example of the archbishopric of Kalocsa-Bács, the older seat at Kö was not suppressed, and the bishopric continued to function with a double scat.