Noi consideraţii privitoare la înfiinţarea Facultăţii de Teologie din Chişinău (1926)
New considerations on the establishment of the Theology Faculty from Chişinău (1926)

Summary/Abstract: This study presents a contribution on the topic of the establishment of the Orthodox Theology Faculty from Chişinău in 1926. The novelty factor of the research is represented by the use of previously unedited documents from the Archives of the Metropolitan Church of Moldavia and Bukovina from Iaşi. We highlight the importance of the file no. 71/1926, exclusively dedicated to this topic, which contains original and copied documents with the main addresses and interventions sent by the clergy from Chişinău and Iaşi to the Romanian authorities, as well as the decisions adopted by those in power. Those documents have a great relevance to the topic, as the issue of the new faculty made it as a press subject only after the failure of the negotiations between institutions.The conclusion is that there were two separate projects for the establishment of superior theological education institutes based in Chişinău and Iaşi. The Archbishop Gurie Grosu from the Bessarabian capital wanted a Theological Academy in Chişinău, in the template of the one from Kyiv, but the Moldavian Metropolitan Pimen Georgescu proposed the reopening of the Theology Faculty from the University of Iaşi. The Romanian authorities compiled the two projects, resulting in the establishment of a Theology Faculty located in Chişinău, but under the auspices of the University of Iaşi.

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