THE PROMOTION OF THE DIOCESE OF ZAGREB TO ARCHDIOCESE POSSIBLE DUE TO THE REVOLUTIONARY YEAR 1848

Sa？etak With the Bulla Ubi primum placuit issued by pope Pius IX in 1852, the Diocese of Zagreb was promoted to Archdiocese and the Croatian-Slavonian ecclesiastical province was established. The author analyzes the causes of this act in controversy with the widespread approach of many historians who separate the question of the establishment of the Archdiocese of Zagreb from the social and political events of that time. This work corrects the judgements of those who have connected the establishment of the Archdiocese with the imposition of the so-called Granted Constitution and the introduction of Bach’s absolutism. The author points out that the starting point in the process of establishing the Archdiocese was the Resolution of the Croatian Parliament in 1845, and that it is in this event that the historical and political reasons, with which the Parliament and the Church in Croatia justified their request, can be discovered. The author gives special attention to ban Josip Jelacic and his letter to the Vienna Government in 1850 as the immediate occasion for the Court in Vienna and the emperor to address that question