Patrimoniul bisericesc în perioada apostolică şi până la Constantin cel Mare
Ecclesiastical patrimony from the apostolic period until Constantine the Great

Summary/Abstract: This study adds to the research devoted to the ecclesiastical patrimonial law. In the first part, the study aims to make a few terminology clarifications, relating to the expression “ecclesiastical patrimony”, thereafter continuing with the rationale behind the necessity of the Church to have a patrimony. The second part of the study is about the historical evolution of the patrimony’s acquisitions during the apostolic and post-apostolic periods, when the duty of the Church to consolidate and administer its own patrimony was a rather difficult one because, firstly, of the lack of specific rules, and, secondly, because of persecution against Christians. The edict of Constantine the Great would begin a new era in the life of the Church, allowing it to free itself from the fictitious cover of funereal associations and consolidate its own patrimony, enhanced and protected, in the subsequent years, even through the interventions of Roman emperors.

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