{"title":"\"Contributions to the history of the church and the Lutheran community in the city of Pitești \"","authors":"A. Radu","doi":"10.24193/jch.2022.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jch.2022.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article aims to present a history of the church and the Lutheran/Evangelical community in the town of Pitesti starting from the middle of the 19th century and in the first two decades of the 20th century. It includes parts of the doctoral thesis entitled Modernization and urbanization in the city of Pitesti (1866-1914), defended at the University of Craiova in December 2021. In the city of Pitesti, the administrative residence of Argeș County, several Germans of Lutheran faith settled, who formed a thriving community before 1918, with their own church and a denominational primary school. The Lutheran Germans set up trading companies and were involved in social and cultural-artistic activities that paved the way: the city's first performance hall and theater known by its owners (Uklar, Lehrer), the first urban choir (Liedertafel), the first funeral insurance company (German Funeral Society of Pitesti), which meant some important landmarks of urban transformation in the modern sense.","PeriodicalId":374247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Church History","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131104331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Church and national issues in the context of Italian-Romanian relations (19th century). Some considerations","authors":"Patrizio Trequattrini","doi":"10.24193/jch.2022.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jch.2022.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The article resumes the most important moments of the relations between Italian and Romanian religious authorities. Beginning from the end of the 18th century, it underlines the importance of Holy Congregation “De Propaganda Fide” in order to start religious and cultural relations between Italy and Romania. Congregation missionary effort in the Romanian room and Greek-Catholic Transilvanian “élites peregrinatio” to Rome had as a result a strong religious and cultural connection that would determine the birth of powerful “topoi” in Romanian imagery: Ancient Rome and Popish Rome images, together with ecclesiastical Romanian élites debut as national élites. Romanian Churches and Romanian political ruling class, the last one affirmed in the middle of the 19th century, led the process of national unity till the end of World War I.","PeriodicalId":374247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Church History","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126191866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Romanian Greek-Catholic ecclesiastical elites between celibacy and marriage","authors":"Mirela Popa-Andrei, D. Covaci","doi":"10.24193/jch.2022.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jch.2022.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The present study investigates the connection between the marital status of the Romanian Greek Catholic priests in Transylvania and their promotion in the ecclesiastical career, between 1850 and 1918. In general, the promotion of ecclesiastical staff to higher offices was analysed from the perspective of their studies at prestigious universities or of their administrative experience gained during years of honourable service in parishes and low-level ecclesiastical institutions. However, we consider that for the studied group, namely the Romanian Greek Catholic canons in Transylvania, the marital status assumed by the young clergymen at the time they submitted their priestly vows was equally relevant. Prior to receiving the priesthood, the young theologians had to choose between being ordained as celibate or marrying as priests and joining the secular clergy. Those who chose celibacy had the option of advancing to the highest ecclesiastical offices, including occupying the episcopal see; the married ones had the opportunity to advance in the church ranks only to the advisory offices of the central level, where they were usually appointed after decades of exemplary church careers.","PeriodicalId":374247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Church History","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131129194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The re-establishment of the Jesuit school in Cluj in 1615","authors":"Ferenc Páll-Szabó","doi":"10.24193/jch.2022.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jch.2022.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The Jesuits opened in 1580 their first school in Cluj and in May 1581 they received from Stephen Báthory the famous diploma in which he asserted his support for this institution and expressed a desire for it to become a university. In 1603 the Jesuits were banished from Transylvania and their return was possible only after the assassination of the unstable prince Gabriel Báthory (1613). An important role in their return to Cluj and also in the re-establishment of the Jesuit school here was played by Stephen Színi, one of the most active Hungarian Jesuits of the time. He managed to recover the village of Cluj-Mănăștur and after creating the necessary material base, the Jesuit school was reopened here in 1618. In the middle of the 17th century, 130-140 students attended this school.","PeriodicalId":374247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Church History","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125134722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Fragment from the Process of Disintegration of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Interwar Hungary","authors":"A. Scridon","doi":"10.24193/jch.2022.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jch.2022.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: The joy brought by the unification of Romania through the Treaty of Trianon was not felt the same by all Romanians. Various constraints started to be imposed on those who remained within Hungary’s borders. From the point of view of the Romanian Orthodox Church, the Romanian Orthodox represented practically 80% of the Romanians remaining in Hungary. Which was not something to disregard. Except for Budapest, the Romanian Orthodox parishes were located in eastern Hungary, from north to south, right next to the Romanian border. The Treaty of Trianon, although anticipable, took the Romanian Orthodox Church by surprise (compared to the Serbian Orthodox Church), as the Romanian parishes in Hungary had their governing structures (archpriestship/episcopate) in Romania. Moreover, the parishes were not subordinated to a single eparchy centre but were divided between the eparchies of Arad and Oradea. Between 1920 and 1946, the two eparchies did not give up the canonical territory from Hungary. And at the level of the Romanian Patriarchate, no plan was proposed to merge the parishes in Hungary, to be subordinated to a single eparchy, as we would say today, in a state of emergency. This was not done until 1946.\"","PeriodicalId":374247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Church History","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129660828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The significance of the Congress of Union and Reorganization held on November 9-10, 1935, in Arad","authors":"Emanuel Jurcoi","doi":"10.24193/jch.2021.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jch.2021.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: The Baptist cult had organized the following congresses: Pre-Congress of 1919 (Buteni), Congress of 1920 (Buteni), 1922 (Oradea), 1928 (Curtici), 1931 (Talpoş), 1932 (Timişoara), 1935 (Arad). Between 1932 and 1934, so-called fractional congresses were organized. The congress of 1935 in Arad is labeled as the congress of union and reorganization because in 1932 the Union of Christian Baptist Churches in Romania split. In this study I will analyze both the reunion process or reunion attempts, the motivation of the reunion and the description of the reunion congress. Attempts and initiatives to reunite the two Baptist unions have been identified both within the country, by the Romanian Baptist diaspora and by the World Alliance of Baptists. The motives for the reunion were related to the rights of the Baptists, their desire for peace, and their spiritual duty to spread the gospel. The strong characters of the two unions could not be overcame except by the sufferings of the persecuted Baptists, such as raising awareness of the death of one of the most meek, industrious, and wise, and humble people of the Baptists of that time — Theodor Sida. In Arad, the Baptists organized events in sumptuous buildings since 1929 - the ordination of Lucaşa Sezonov to the Red Church, 1930 - Southeast European Baptist Congress in the Arad Theater building, 1935 - Congress of the reunion of Baptists at the White Cross Hotel and 1945 - Congress Romanian Baptist Union at the Cultural Palace in Arad.\"","PeriodicalId":374247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Church History","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133943823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes of the Arad Orthodox clergy regarding the organization and conduct of the Grand National Assembly in Alba Iulia from December 1, 1918","authors":"Maria Alexandra Pantea","doi":"10.24193/jch.2021.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jch.2021.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The Orthodox Church played an important role in the events of the fall of 1918 and contributed to the achievement of the Great Union. The activity carried out by the priests from the Diocese of Arad, but also by its leadership in the autumn of 1918 is a clear proof of the Church's involvement in the realization of the national ideal. The representatives of the Diocese of Arad, Bishop Ioan I. Papp, Gheorghe Ciuhandu, Roman Ciorogariu, official delegates in Alba-Iulia, left important notes regarding the atmosphere in Alba-Iulia. In addition to these notes, there are also some made by several priests who participated in Alba Iulia accompanying groups of peasants. All these testimonies demonstrate the involvement of the clergy and the Church in the achievement of national unity.","PeriodicalId":374247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Church History","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129889079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The coming of the vladika”. On canonical visitations of Greek-Catholic hierarchs in the second half of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. Some considerations","authors":"Cecilia Cârja, Ioan Cârja","doi":"10.24193/jch.2021.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jch.2021.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article focuses on an interesting topic for the history of the Church and religious life of the Romanians in Transylvania, the canonical visitations of the Greek-Catholic bishops in the second half of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. The documentary contribution that we propose refers to three case studies, three canonical visitations of the period we are considering, from which a relevant documentation that allows their reconstruction remained. It is about the visit made in the Breb parish, from the Forane Vicariate of Maramureş, by the first bishop of Gherla, Ioan Alexi, on May 22, 1860, followed by the visit made by Metropolitan Ioan Vancea in three distinct points of the archdiocese of Blaj in the period 1873-1876: the deanery of Alba Iulia, the Forane Vicariate of Făgăraş and the deanery of Mureş, and finally the visit of the bishop of Gherla, Vasile Hossu, in Maramureş, between June 27 and August 4, 1913. The visit to a rural community by a high prelate was perceived, in the era we are discussing, as an exceptional event of a special importance in the collective sensibility. Of great interest to the church authorities of the time and also to the historiographical research of today, is the minute (\"protocol\") of the canonical visitation, a particularly useful tool for knowing the local religious and community life. This contribution aims to briefly signal the potential of scientific research on such a subject, the canonical visitations in the Greek-Catholic Church, research that deserves to be resumed and carried out at larger dimensions.","PeriodicalId":374247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Church History","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123354639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Canonical Considerations on the First Celebrated Synod in the Făgăraş Eparchy (1725)","authors":"William A. Bleiziffer","doi":"10.24193/jch.2021.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jch.2021.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Publication of the Papal Bull by Pope Innocent XIII Rationi Congruit, on 18 May 1721, by which the Făgăraş Eparchy was established, is a start and crucial point in the evolution of the Romanian Catholic Church United with Rome. This Bull, through the content and effects it created, - first of all by creating institutional stability, but also by connecting to European and modern culture - is the legal-canonical foundation of the Făgăraş Eparchy and the subsequent development of a Church that played a special role in the history of the Romanian people. The celebration of 300 years of that moment gives us the opportunity of a new review on this event and distributing some historical circumstances related to this pontifical approach, and a new analysis, even summary of the first Synod held in the new Eparchy of Făgăraş.","PeriodicalId":374247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Church History","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121220540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The episcopal ministry of the metropolitan Pimen Georgescu. Projection and reforms for the married clergy (1909-1918)","authors":"Ionel Moldovan","doi":"10.24193/jch.2021.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/jch.2021.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"\"Abstract: The presentation contains the itinerary of my PhD research and the conclusion of my thesis, publically presented on October 30th, 2020, in the PhD School of History Faculty of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi. In the first part of the presentation included the main phases of my documentation, which lead me to an original perspective about how the Metropolitan Pimen Georgescu and his ecclesiastical institution (the Moldavian Metropolitanate) helped the Romanian war effort during the Great War. In its second part, I mentioned some of my research conclusions. Given that Pimen Georgescu is known in the Romanian historiography as the Metropolitan of the war and unification of the Romanian nation, I could state that my most important conclusion is perhaps that the implication of Metropolitan Pimen in supporting the Romanian war effort was not a purpose in itself, as the war was just a favorable context for materializing the perspective of the priestly extra-liturgical implication which he promoted when he was the Bishop of Galaţi and later on the Metropolitan of Iaşi.\"","PeriodicalId":374247,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Church History","volume":"474 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122184553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}