Religious transitions from Orthodox to Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic confessions in the area Pakrac and Daruvar districts between 1941 and 1945

Autor u tekstu donosi informacije o vjerskim prijelazima s pravoslavne na grkokatoličku i rimokatoličku vjeroispovijest na području kotareva Pakrac i Daruvar u periodu između 1941. i 1945. Na temelju arhivske građe iz Nadbiskupskog arhiva Zagreb, Hrvatskog državnog arhiva i Državnog arhiva u Bjelovaru autor istražuje na koji način su vršeni vjerski prijelazi, koliko su bili učestali, odnosno na kojem su prostoru pakračkog arhiđakonata bili češći, odnosno rjeđi. Donosi podatak o 1.879 podnesenih molbi za vjerski prijelaz s pravoslavne na rimokatoličku vjeroispovijest na području devet župa pakračkog arhiđakonata. Bavi se i prijelazima na grkokatoličku vjeroispovijest na području Velikih Bastaja. Prema istraživanjima vjerski prijelazi s pravoslavne na rimokatoličku vjeroispovijest bili su najčešći na području župe Čaglić, a najveći broj vjerskih prijelaza odvio se između travnja 1941. i sredine 1942. godine. Prema poimeničnom popisu prijelaznika 1941. prešlo je 1.461 pravoslavnih na rimokatoličku vjeroispovijest, a 1942. njih 412, dok je posljednje tri godine rata prešlo svega njih 6. Broj prijelaza značajno se smanjio nakon uspostave Hrvatske pravoslavne crkve u travnju 1942The author of this paper provides information on religious transitions from the Orthodox to Greek Catholic and Roman Catholic confessions in the area of Pakrac and Daruvar districts between the years 1941 and 1945. Based on the archival materials from the Archbishop Archives Zagreb, Croatian State Archives and the State Archive in Bjelovar, the author investigates how religious transitions were done, how frequent they were i.e. where they were more (or less) frequent in the Pakrac Archdeaconate. There is one piece of information on 1879 requests submitted for the religious transition from the Orthodox to Roman Catholic confession in the area of nine rectories of the Archdeaconate of Pakrac. The paper also deals with transitions into the Greek Catholic confession in the area of Velike Bastaje. According to research, religious transitions from the Orthodox to Roman Catholic confessions were most frequent in the area of the Čaglić rectory and the greatest portion of them happened between April 1941 and mid 1942. According to a list of names of those who performed transitions, 1461 Orthodox believers transitioned to the Roman Catholic confession in 1941. 412 transitioned in 1942 and, in the last three years of the war, a total of 6 people transitioned. The number of transitions significantly dropped after the setting up of the Croatian Orthodox church in April 1942