The Romanian - Greek Litigation Regarding the Dedicated Monasteries Wealth, from 1821 until the Secularization
The Romanian - Greek Litigation Regarding the Dedicated Monasteries Wealth, from 1821 until the Secularization

Summary/Abstract: The events of 1821 put an end to the Phanariot century in the Romanian Principalities.Immediately, the Romanians protested against the situation of the monasteries dedicated to the HolyPlaces of the Orient and especially because a quarter of the Wallachia and Moldavia, belonged to theGreek monks. Resentment of the Romanian against the Greek monks and the privileges of the HolyPlaces, were intensified. The Organic Regulations forced the Greek monks to pay some land taxes,especially in Wallachia, being concern to limit Greeks abuse. Then, the revolutionaries of 1848, justwanted to stop Greeks abuses. Sometimes, Turkey and Russia have sustained together the Greeksinterests in Romanian Principalities and, at the Paris Conference in 1858, the Romanians did not giveup of their desire to regain their rights and national dignity and, under the reign of the great rulerAlexandru Ioan Cuza, they enacted secularization of religious goods on 13th of December, 1863. TheHoly Places did not understood to accept any limitation on the use of the property like monasticwealth, nor could their protectors in the Principalities, the Russians, no longer support their demands.The provisions of the Organic Regulations, despite the dissatisfaction of the Holy Places, constitutes alegislative progress which determines Kiseleff to order the monasteries inventory and ordered these tostate debt repayment, thereby inducing the idea of the supremacy of state authority, which Cuza Vodacompletes with a strong hand.

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