Amestecul puterii politice în alegerea ierarhilor Bisericii Ortodoxe Române
Political Interference in Electing the Leaders of the Romanian Orthodox Church

Summary/Abstract: One of the aspects of church life in which political influence was most manifest was the election or removal of prelates from the church hierarchy. Under a totalitarian regime, the individual is not rewarded or punished for his real merits or mistakes, but according to how this serves or not the power. The Orthodox prelates, with a few exceptions, were not arrested because the communists had methods that suited their goals better: forcible retirement, withdrawal, and the dissolution of dioceses. Any arrest would have seriously affected the myth of perfect cooperation between the Communist state and the Orthodox Church. Therefore prelates dismissed from their position were the victims of Communist terror against the church.

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