Arsenije IV Jovanović-Šakabenta
| Serbian Patriarch Arsenije IV Српски патријарх Арсеније IV |
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| Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch | |
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| Church | Serbian Patriarchate of Peć |
| See | Patriarchal Monastery of Peć |
| Installed | 1725 |
| Term ended | 1748 |
| Predecessor | Mojsije I |
| Successor | Joanikije III |
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| Birth name | Arsenije Jovanović |
| Born | 1698 Peć, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 18 January 1748 (aged 50) Sremski Karlovci, Habsburg Monarchy |
Arsenije IV Jovanović Šakabenta (Serbian Cyrillic: Арсеније IV Јовановић Шакабента, Serbian pronunciation: [ǎrseːnije t͡ʃětʋr̩ːtiː]; 1698 – 18 January 1748) was the Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch from 1725 to 1737 and Metropolitan of Karlovci from 1737 to his death in 1748. He commissioned the Slavic heraldic bearings called Stemmatographia. He opened the first official Academy of Painting at his Metropolitanate of Karlovci after the artistic and cultural reforms were commenced under the auspices and blessing of Vikentije Jovanović, his predecessor.
Arsenije was born in 1698, and had a younger brother, Andrija, who was a priest and a sister who married knez Atanasije Rašković. Arsenije was consecrated bishop in 1722, a very young age, appointed the Metropolitan of Raška. Arsenije succeeded Serbian Patriarch Mojsije I (s. 1712–25) upon his retirement due to old age, and was enthroned as Arsenije IV by Mojsije on February 18/29 in 1725.
Arsenije continued the policies of his predecessors. He traveled extensively and negotiated with the Austrians in order to liberate his people from Ottoman rule. When the Austro–Turkish War (1716–18) broke out, the Serbs revolted. The Ottomans wanted to capture and kill Patriarch Arsenije IV, but he escaped. After the Austrians were defeated, Arsenije escaped to Austria along with many other refugees. After the peace treaty was signed the Ottomans retained the city of Belgrade, and the territories of what is today Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia. The Ottoman Porte selected and appointed a new patriarch at the Serbian Patriarchal seat in Peć, the Greek Joannicius, from their trusted Phanariotes.
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