Patriarch Kalinik I of Serbia

Kalinik I was the Patriarch of Pe, head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire, from 1691 until 1710. He was a relative of Alexander Mavrocordatos, a very influential man and translator at the Porte. The Deani memorials calls him Kalinik of Skoplje , while there is scarce information on his early life. He became the spiritual leader of the Serbian Orthodox Church in difficult circumstances, following the exodus of the Serbs to the Habsburg Monarchy, in the First Great Migration of the Serbs following the failure of Habsburg operations in Serbia, under the leadership of his predecessor Arsenije III arnojevi . In order to thwart Arsenije IIIs influence on the Serbs, the Ottomans appointed Kalinik, previously a priest in Skoplje, as the new Patriarch of Pe. Kalinik tried to calm down the people and to return the bishops and clergy that had fled to their offices. The Ottomans, in order to increase his reputation and income , and spark discontent towards Austria and Venice, a

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