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After arriving home, he found his people in the middle of the [[w:Great Turkish War|Great Turkish War]]. He was forced to leave Peć because Turks tried to kill him. He came back after Austrians captured Peć. Under great presure of the Austrians he was forced to call all Serbs to join the Austrian army. About 20,000 Serbs joined the Austrian army, but the Serbs and Austrians were defeated near Skoplje in the winter of 1689. The patriarch, with 90,000 people started retreating. Arsenije called a popular-churc church assembly in Belgrade in july July 1690. In this assembly were participating Serbian noblemen, oficerofficers, popular leaders,metropolitans, bishops,archimandritsarchimandrites, [[igumen]]s, igumens and protopresbyters[[protopresbyter]]s. They decided to continue in the war as Austrian alies allies, but they demanding demanded freedom of religion and freedom from serfdom. The Serbs sent an envoy lided led by Bishop Isaija of Jenopolje, who was fluent in German . Emperor. [[w:Leopold_I%2C_Holy_Roman_Emperor|Leopold I]] proclaimed an edict on [[August 21]] in which he gave the Serbian people and their Church special privileges. After this Serbs populated soutern part of Hungary, todays Vojvodina in Serbia, and military frontier in Croatia as Austrian soldiers. Serbs also participated in the decisive batle battle of Senta in wich which the Turks were defeated. After this , a peace treaty was signed and Austrians recaptured Hungary and Transylvania.

From the beginning he had many problems under Austrian rule. Hungarian nobility, Catholic [[clergy]], and German officers were all hostile toward Serbs, but the wise patriarch saved his people from Catholic [[proselytism]]. He menaged managed to negotiate with bishops who the signed Union . After this , those bishopc reembrace bishops reembraced Orthodoxy. But Yet he failed in trying to reestablish an Orthodox Bishopric bishopric in Transylvania (Metropolitan of Transylvania signed the Union in 1699.). He established relations with Russian court. He also start started to Negotiate negotiate with the Turks in order to came back in Pecreturn to Peć. His greates animy greatest enemy was Cardinal Leopold Kolonić, state chancelar chancellor of HyngaryHungary. Arsenije established five new dioceses in Hungary and Croatia. He established , and with these and three from theese and thre the old Metropolitanate of Karlovci as , established an autonomous unit of Peć Patriarchate.