 the bosnian church (bosnian: crkva bosanska latin: ecclesia bosniensis bosanÄica: Ð¦ÑÐºÐ²Ð° ÐÐ¾ÑÐ°Ð½ÑÐºÐ°) was a christian church in medieval bosnia that was independent of and considered heretical by both the roman catholic and the eastern orthodox hierarchies. historians have traditionally connected the church with the bogomils, although this has been challenged. adherents of the church called themselves simply krstjani ("christians") or dobri boÅ¡njani ("good bosnians"). the church's organization and beliefs are poorly understood, because few if any records were left by church members, and the church is mostly known from the writings of outside sources, primarily roman catholic ones. ==history== christian missions emanating from rome and constantinople had since the ninth century pushed into the balkans and firmly established catholicism in croatia and most of dalmatia, while orthodoxy came to prevail in bulgaria, macedonia, and eventually most of serbia. bosnia, lying in between, remained a no-man's land due to its mountainous terrain and poor communications. no accurate figures exist as to the numbers of adherents of the two churches. the bosnian church coexisted uneasily with roman catholicism for much of the later middle ages. part of the resistance of the bosnian church was political. during the 14th century, the roman church placed bosnia under a hungarian bishop, and the schism may have been motivated by a desire for independence from hungarian domination. several bosnian rulers were krstjani, but some of them embraced roman catholicism for political reasons. outsi
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