The Serbian People's Church Council of Karlovac Metropolitanate represented the most important institutions of Serbs in the Habsburg monarchy. For more than two centuries (1708 - 1911), the Serbian Church Council in the Karlovac Metropolitanate not only elected archbishops, later patriarchs, but also decided on many questions other prople-church, educational, and even on the purely political needs of the Serbs under Austro-Hungarian reign.