Metropolitan of Sremski Karlovci

Metropolitanate of Karlovci Карловачка митрополија Karlovačka mitropolija
Coat of Arms of Metropolitanate of Karlovci
Location
Territory	Habsburg Monarchy
Headquarters	Karlovci, Habsburg Monarchy (today Sremski Karlovci, Serbia)
Information
Denomination	Serbian Orthodox Church
Sui iuris church	Self-governing Serbian Orthodox Metropolitanate
Established	1708
Dissolved	1848 (1920)
Language	Church Slavonic Slavonic-Serbian Serbian

The Metropolitanate of Karlovci (Serbian: Карловачка митрополија or Karlovačka mitropolija) was a metropolitanate of the Serbian Orthodox Church that existed between 1708 and 1848 (1920). Between 1708 and 1713 it was known as the Metropolitanate of Krušedol, and between 1713 and 1848 as the Metropolitanate of Karlovci. In 1848, it was transformed into the Patriarchate of Karlovci, which existed until 1920, when it was merged with Metropolitanate of Belgrade and other Serbian church provinces to form the united Serbian Orthodox Church.

During the 16th and 17th centuries, all of the southern and central parts of the former medieval Kingdom of Hungary were under Turkish rule and organized as Ottoman Hungary. Since 1557, Serbian Orthodox Church in those regions was under jurisdiction of the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć. During the Austro-Turkish war (1683–1699), much of the central and southern Hungary was liberated and Serbian eparchies in those regions fell under the Habsburg rule. In 1689, Serbian Patriarch Arsenije III sided with Austrians, and moved from Peć to Belgrade in 1690, leading the Great Migration of the Serbs. In that time, large number of Serbs (cca 200 000) migrated to southern and central parts of Hungary.