CONTRIBUŢII LA ISTORIA EPARHIEI GRECO-CATOLICE DE ORADEA ŞI BAIA MARE ÎN PERIOADA COMUNISTĂ. RAPORTUL VICARULUI ORTODOX DR.AUGUSTIN PAUL DIN ANUL 1957
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF THE GREEK-CATHOLIC EPARCHY OF ORADEA AND BAIA MARE DURING THE COMMUNIST PERIOD.

Summary/Abstract: The Greek-Catholic church survived during the „catacombs”, especially due to the priests’ and believers’ faith and devotion, in spite of the oppressions of the communist authorities. They remained faithful to the Church that the Bishop Atanasie Anghel placed within the Catholic Church. Faith and devotion were visible during the public or clandestine manifestations, in spite of the fact that the communist authorities, with the help of the orthodox priests ancillary to the interest of the „Unification”, have sought, during all this period, to annihilate and erase any trace of Greek-Catholicism. This study presents the real situation of the archpriestships and parishes from the Greek-Catholic Eparchies of Oradea-Mare and Baia Mare, abusively taken in the Romanian Orthodox Church, more exactly in the Orthodox Episcopacy of Oradea, by the document from the 21st of October 1948. The report of the orthodox vicar, Dr. Augustin Paul – former Greek-Catholic priest – details the so-called „Unification” in the archpriestships and parishes of the Eparchy, 9 years after the banishment of the Greek-Catholic cult. The events depicted by the orthodox vicar are related to the believers’ and Greek-Catholic priests’ public manifestations from 1956, that, on one hand, were plain signs that the Greek-Catholic Church still asserted its existence in spite of the restriction of the communist-atheist State and, on the other hand, these sounded the alarm to the superior church and laic authorities from Bucharest that a change in the annihilation measures of the resistance forms used by the Greek-Catholics was necessary.

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