Imaginea Bisericii romano-catolice la românii greco-catolici (Congresul autonomiei Bisericii catolice din Ungaria)
The Image of the Roman-Catholic Church at the Greek-Catholic Romanians (The Congress Dedicated to the Autonomy of the Catholic Church of Hungary)

Summary/Abstract: ABSTRACT: The Image of the Roman-Catholic Church at the Greek-Catholic Romanians (The Congress Dedicated to the Autonomy of the Catholic Church of Hungary). The setting up of national churches in the 19th century, autonomous and hierarchically independent, generated phenomena of church separation in the Orthodox Church, between Romanians, Serbs and Greeks, and in the Catholic Church between Romanians, Ruthenians and Hungarians. Against the background of a Latinizing tendency inaugurated in the 19th century in the Greek-Catholic Church, in the second half of the 19th century, certain phenomena of alterity have appeared in the interdenominational relations, which emphasized a political and a national aspect as well. The aspect which was best put into evidence was the split Roman-Catholic - Greek-Catholic. This alterity deepened with the occasion of the Congress dedicated to the autonomy of the Catholic Church of Hungary, when the archbishop of Strigonum called the Romanian Greek-Catholic dioceses to participate in the preliminary debates and in the congress. The paper deals with the different responses of the Romanian dioceses and bishoprics, the reaction of the public opinion, the relation between the archdiocese and the subordinate bishoprics, the participation of the representatives of the Greek-Catholic Church in the congress, the efforts of the Romanian Church towards a constitutional establishment of the Uniate Church.

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