The Parish of Vinica was established some time in the early 14th century. The head of the parish was at Holy Cross church, built just after 1200AD by the Counts of Vi\u0161nja Gora residing at Metlika. At that time, the parish likely included the following towns:<\/p>\n
Vinica<\/a>, Podklanec<\/a>, Zilje<\/a>, Balkovci<\/a>, Preloka<\/a>, \u017duni\u010di<\/a>, Damelj<\/a>, Vukovci<\/a>, U\u010dakovci<\/a>, Perudina<\/a>, Hrast<\/a>, Stara Lipa<\/a> and Nova Lipa<\/a>, and many other smaller hamlets in between.<\/p>\n By 1334, Vinica was one of seven parishes in Bela Krajina<\/a>. Between 1526 and 1754, the parish included the following villages:<\/p>\n Vinica<\/a>, Podklanec<\/a>, Zilje<\/a>, Balkovci<\/a>, Preloka<\/a>, \u017duni\u010di<\/a>, Damelj<\/a>, Vukovci<\/a>, U\u010dakovci<\/a>, Perudina<\/a>, Hrast<\/a>, Stara Lipa<\/a> and Nova Lipa<\/a>, and now also Bel\u010dji Vrh<\/a>, Sela pri Dragatu\u0161u<\/a>, Gornji Suhor<\/a> and Dolnji Suhor<\/a>, Pusti Gradec<\/a>, Zapudje<\/a>, Obrh<\/a> and Dragatu\u0161<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the first half of the 18th century, the church was remodeled giving it the Baroque look it has today. From this time until the late 18th century, the new parishes of Preloka<\/a> and Nerajec were excised from Vinica. Dragatu\u0161<\/a> also formed a new parish in the mid 1800s. The parish then remained geographically as is does today, encompassing:<\/p>\n Damelj<\/a> and Kot<\/a>, Dolnji Suhor<\/a> and Gornji Suhor<\/a>, Drenovec<\/a>, Dre\u017enik<\/a>, Golek<\/a>, Hrast<\/a>, Kova\u010dji Grad<\/a>, Nova Lipa<\/a> and Stara Lipa<\/a>, Ogulin<\/a>, Otok<\/a>, Perudina<\/a>, Podklanec<\/a>, Se\u010dje Selo<\/a>, U\u010dakovci<\/a>, Vinica<\/a> and Vukovci<\/a>.<\/p>\n The earliest priest documented in records we have seen was Michael Lomuth in 1679.<\/p>\n Others are listed here by date first documented:<\/p>\n Jurij Jarkovi\u010d, 1680 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Parish of Vinica was established some time in the early 14th century. The head of the parish was at Holy Cross church, built just after 1200AD by the Counts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":888,"menu_order":70,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-884","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gfamilytree.com\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gfamilytree.com\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gfamilytree.com\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gfamilytree.com\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gfamilytree.com\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gfamilytree.com\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3554,"href":"http:\/\/gfamilytree.com\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/884\/revisions\/3554"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gfamilytree.com\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gfamilytree.com\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIvan Jurij Sallaker, pastor 1682
\nIvan Plut, 1682
\nPeter Perko 1685
\nAndrej Pa\u0161i\u010d 1758
\nIvan Fabi\u010d 1758
\nIvan Krstnik Jaketi\u010d 1758
\nJurij Ignac Jankovi\u010d, pastor 1758,pastor jubilatum 1760
\nJurij Lovrin 1759
\nIvan Rogovi\u010d, pastor 1760
\nMarko Ta\u0161i\u010d, pastor 1765
\n\u0160tefan \u0160utej 1767
\nJurij Ko\u010devar 1771
\nNikolaj Flajnik 1772
\nMichael Stefani\u010d 1774
\nIvan Perko, Micheal Krotec 1776
\nMarko Balkovec 1778
\nIvan Male\u0161i\u010d, pastor 1782
\nNikolaj Tomec 1783
\nMichael Ostroni\u010d 1785
\nJacob Hlapper, pastor 1817
\nJurij Jegli\u010d, pastor 1824
\n\u0160tefan Ogulin, pastor 1829
\nJacob \u0160krl 1833
\nJacob Indihar 1848
\nSimon Sadnik 1852
\nDaniel Ter\u0161ek, pastor 1859
\nCaspar Majheni\u010d, pastor 1863
\nMatija \u0160utej, pastor 1868
\nJurij Konig, pastor 1881
\nAnton Hribar 1891
\nMichael Horvat 1892
\nAnton \u0160mid 1893
\nIvan Tel\u010d 1895
\nG. Mlejnik 1897
\nPavlin Bitnar, pastor 1920
\nCiril Lek\u0161an, pastor 1923
\nLovro Kos, pastor 1926
\nJanez Habjan before 1927
\nAndrej Ku\u0161lan 1927
\nFranc Marke\u017e, pastor 1933
\nAnton Miklav\u010di\u010d, pastor 1933
\nMartin Stare 1933
\nIvan Salmi\u010d 1941
\nMetod Krajnc, pastor 1946
\nPavel Verderber, pastor 1948
\nFranc Kastelic, pastor 1957
\nTone Furar, pastor 1993<\/p>\n
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