Un colaborator destoinic şi „Prim Sfetnic” al Episcopului Nicolae Ivan: Protopopul cărturar Sebastian Stanca (1878-1947)
A worthy collaborator and “first counselor” of Bishop Nicolae Ivan: scholar archpriest Sebastian Stanca (1878-1947)

Summary/Abstract: After the Great Union of December 1st, 1918, favorable circumstances were created for strengthening and establishing the national and ecclesiastical institutions in Transylvania. Since spring 1919, in Cluj began the foundation of those institutions that Hungarian domination did not allow: Romanian university “King Ferdinand I” the Romanian National Theatre and Opera, Romanian schools of all grades and the Romanian Orthodox Diocese. In the context of celebrating eighty years since the passing away of the founder of the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Vad, Feleac and Cluj, Bishop Nicolae Ivan (1855-1936), we intend to bring the attention of the cultural and religious environment from Cluj on one of his most worthy collaborators and “first counselors” the scholar archpriest Sebastian Stanca, who stood beside him in founding and organizing the work of the new diocese of Cluj since 7/20 July 1919, when he was chosen among the 27 councilors of the Orthodox consistory from Cluj as a member in the school Senate. So the present study illustrates first the biography of the priest Sebastian Stanca, focusing then on two less known sides of his activity and of his works: memoirs and historiography on WWI and its contribution to the organization and the historiography of the Eparchy of Vad, Feleac and Cluj.

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