Perspectivă istoriografică asupra protopopiatului ortodox de Alba Iulia - sec. XVII-XX (II. sec. XVIII-XX)
A Historiographic Perspective on the District of the Orthodox Archpriest of Alba Iulia - XVII-XX Century (II. XVIII-XX Century)

Summary/Abstract: The district of the archpriest of Alba Iulia had a special status among the Transylvanian districts of the archpriests due to the historical, political, cultural and religious importance of the city in which this institution had its home. Nevertheless, historiography does not record until this day but one monographic work dedicated to this institution, which takes into regard the period between the years 1918 and 1940. This work, beyond the enlarged informational content that it offers in comparison to the studies and the articles dedicated to the archpriests from that period – a plus of information that it had obtained from the research of the archives -, suffers from slight imprecision and, especially, from inconsistency; both excusable due to the level of research. Otherwise, a few local researchers have dedicated studies and articles to similar themes to the one discussed here: Eva Mârza (for 18th century), Doina Dreghiciu (for 18th century), Alin Albu (for 18th century), Nicolae Dănilă (for 18th century), Gabriela Mircea (for 18th century), Nicolae Josan (for 19th century) and Ioana Rustoiu. Only four of these authors sign monographic studies per se: Eva Mârza, Doina Dreghiciu, Gabriela Mircea and Alin Albu. The articles signed by Alexandru Baba, Romul Joantă and Niculiţă Pascu are also monographic approaches that, however, constitute themselves into general presentations, without bringing a considerable scientific contribution because they were not written by specialists. Under these circumstances, aggravated by the fact that the bibliographic inconsistency is often doubled by the lack of documentation, the attempt to recreate the history of the district of the archpriest of Alba Iulia and the biographies of some important personalities that have been the owners of this distinction presupposes a very hard work.

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