ON A DOCUMENT CONCEERNING THE CALENDAR REFORM

One considers the contents of a document from 1927 which belongs to the archive material of the Serbian Orthodox Church and where the introducing of the calendar reform according to the project of Maksim Trpkovic (1864-1924) was proposed and its advantages over the modification done at the Panorthodox Congress in Constantinople in 1923 by Milutin Milankovic (1879-1958) were emphasized. After the First World War the Gregorian Calendar was adopted by many states. At the Panorthodox Congress in Constantinople in 1923 a solution was adopted according to which the Julian Calendar should be improved, but it was not accepted, i. e. followed, by all Orthodox Churches. Since the Serbian Orthodox Church had not reformed its calendar, Jovan Zivkovic (1859-1929), professor at the Theological School in Sremski Karlovci (he taught church rule and elements of orthodox paschalia) [1], who was appointed by the Church for the matter of calendar reform, addressed the Holy Archiereic Council with intention to solve the question of calendar reform. Two copies of this document (following the enclosed material) are kep