White Carniola in visitation minutes of the Archbishop of Gorizia, Karl Michael Attems (1752–1774)

Abstract

White Carniola was a complete ecclesiastical administrative unit under the Archdiocese of Gorizia. All five parishes fell under the jurisdiction of the German order of knights with its seat in Metlika and the Archbishop of Gorizia only held ecclesiastical authority over them. During the episcopacy of Archbishop Attems the White Carniolan parishes were subject to three visitations. Reports on these have luckily been preserved in the Archdiocesan Archives in Gorizia, Italy. Since their contents have remained largely unknown to the Slovenian public, the paper seeks to present the ecclesiastical life in White Carniola between 1753 and 1771.