The Reform Movements and Old Catholicism in Dalmatia

Sa？etak Although the prehistory of the Reform movement is connected with Niko Petri？ and his 1917 brochure Rane u Katoli？koj Crkvi, the movement which started at the beginning of 1919 did not have any echo in Dalmatia, except in two minor cases. Among the Reform movements we have to mention Narodna crkva of Bo？o Milo？evi？, whose movement started in Dalmatia, with little success, and which later expanded on the territory of the Zagreb Archdiocese. The movement had completely disappeared in 1921. The Croatian Old Catholic Church had some successes in Croatia and Slavonia, and then in Bosnia and Vojvodina. But, of all the Catholics in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, it had the least success amongst the Catholics in Dalmatia. Specific political and social circumstances and predominant status of the Catholic Church had big influence on the weak success of spreading of the Old Catholicism in Dalmatia. There had been established new Old Catholic parishes and church communities, of which the biggest community was in Split where the parish priest was Niko Petri？. Apart from minor successes in rural areas and in Split and ？ibenik, the Croatian Old Catholic Church did not achieve some major success in Dalmatia. After the Second World War none of the Old Catholic communities in Dalmatia will be renewed