THE HISTORY OF THE GREEK-CATHOLIC CHURCH AS REFLECTED IN THE POST 1989 ROMANIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY. SOME CONSIDERATIONS
THE HISTORY OF THE GREEK-CATHOLIC CHURCH AS REFLECTED IN THE POST 1989 ROMANIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY. SOME CONSIDERATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The History of the Greek-Catholic Church as Reflected in the Post 1989 Romanian Historiography. Some Considerations. The study aims to present seve-ral considerations concerning a scientific research topic which was almost non-existent prior to 1989: the history of Romanian Greek-Catholic Church. The liberalisation of the historical writing in post-communist Romania has created a favourable climate for restarting the research concerning the history of the Church and of religious life. It is in this context that the Romanian United Church became once more an important subject in the Romanian historiography. The research of the history of the Greek-Catholic Church meant , for that period, going to primary sources (archives in and outside the country), as well as identifying main research topics such as: the Union of the Transylvanian Romanians with the Church of Rome, personalities and institutions, relations between the Greek-Catholic Church with the Holly See and with the Latin Catholic Church from Austria-Hungary in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the outlawry of this Church in 1948, the period of the communist persecution etc. When surveying the topic, we are dealing with three ways of connecting with the history of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church: academic history, a result of studies and research conducted by specialists, the official, encomiastic history automatically assumed by the United elites and clergy and a disputed history generated by a difficult dialogue and the tensed relations with the Orthodox Church following the post-communist transition.

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