After the
war the “South Slavic Reformed Christina
Church” was established. The bishop resided
in Feketitsch, the seat of the German
Seniorats was in Neu-Werbass.
There were
individual Lutheran Germans in the Batschka
already before the governing time of Joseph
the II, but they were still not allowed to
assemble in church congregations at the
time. This first changed with the religious
patent of the emperor, which followed with
the migration of numerous Lutherans. In
1791 the communities of the Batschka and
Syrmia were assigned to a particular Dekanat
of the Hungarian Evangelical Church. After
World War I the “German Evangelical
Christian Church of the Augsberg
Denomination in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia”
was established. The seat of the bishops
was in Agram, the seat of the Batschka
Seniorats was in Kleinker.
The
Catholics in the Batschka in the middle ages
belonged to the archdiocese of Kalotscha,
which had its own cathedral capital in
Batsch. During Turkish times the Batschka
again went to “Kalotscha and Batsch”
archbishop again took up residence in
Kalotscha, there were only nine pastors in
the whole Batschka. The number of Catholics
increased with the settlement of the Germans
and Hungarians. After World War I an
apostolic administrator was used in the
South Slavic part, while the Hungarian part
continued to be placed under the
archbishop. In 1944 71 of the 125 pastors
preached in the German language.
Many of the
repatriates from the United States brought
with them religious denominations from
overseas which were not represented in the
Batschka beforehand. Some churches or
prayer houses had the Methodists, Baptists,
or the Adventists. The Nazarenes were
repreatedly forbidden, while on the other
hand the Old Catholics were allowed. Only
individual Germans were Orthodox or Greek
Catholic.
According
to a half official survey from July 1944 the
250,000 Germans of the Batschka were
arranged in religions as follows:
-
170,000
Roman Catholic
-
55,000
Evangelical A.B.
-
15,000
Reformed H.B.
-
5,000
Christian sects (Methodists, Baptists,
Adventist, Nazarene)
-
5,000
Others
In the year
1900, according to the corresponding census
here are the official Hungarian statistics:
-
138,465
Roman Catholic
-
38,871
Evangelical A.B.
-
11,673
Reformed H.B.
-
121 Other
Christian
-
3,137
Others
-
192,267
Germans
