Der heilige Simion Ştefan hielt das Überwechseln in die Jurisdiktion des Papstes für eine nur juristische aber nicht geistliche Trennung von seiner re
Saint Simion Ştefan considered entering in the Pope jurisdiction only a juridical movement, not a spiritual one of separation by the Eastern Orthodox

Summary/Abstract: The study highlights the reality of a particular ecclesiological situation, whose protagonists were, during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries, the Roman-Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, a situation illustrated by the special pastoral demeanour of two great Orthodox Metropolitans– Petru Movilă and Simeon Ştefan – at present numbered among the calendar saints. The change in the paradigms of ecclesiological thinking in the Orthodox, as well as in the Roman-Catholic Church in the XVIIIth century led to a growing mutual estrangement and eventually to exclusion and reciprocal denial of the other’s ecclesiastical character. The chances of an authentic ecumenism between the two Church families reside only in returning to the ecclesiological vision of mutual acceptance, acknowledgment and tolerance, as it existed before the XVIIIth century, both in the Orthodox and in the Catholic Church. This vision was brilliantly illustrated by the two great metropolitans who are honoured as saints by the Orthodox Church today.

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