The ”Ecclesiastical Unification” of the Armenians from the Sibiu Provostship (Tălmaciu) in the Fourteenth Century or about an Ecclesiastical Transylvanian Mistery Cover Image

„Unirea ecleziastică” a armenilor din Prepozitura Sibiului (Tălmaciu) în secolul al XIV-lea sau despre un mister ecclesial transilvan
The ”Ecclesiastical Unification” of the Armenians from the Sibiu Provostship (Tălmaciu) in the Fourteenth Century or about an Ecclesiastical Transylvanian Mistery

Author(s): Şerban Turcuş
Subject(s): History, Middle Ages, 13th to 14th Centuries
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Transylvania; Armenian; cistercian; Sibiu; Cârţa

Summary/Abstract: The study refers to the meteoric presence in medieval documents from Transylvania (1355) of an Armenian bishop named Martin of Tălmaciu, vicar of the archbishop of Esztergom. We think it is an interesting case for the implementation of the subordination's policy of the Armenian Rite by the figure of a vicar bishop or a diocesan vicar to the authority of the archbishop that oversees the ecclesiastical discipline in the territory of the provostship of Sibiu. In this business is involved also the cistercian abbey of Cârţa, that may have been implicated in the admission of the Armenians of Tălmaciu under the obedience of the Roman Church.

  • Issue Year: LV/2016
  • Issue No: 55
  • Page Range: 89-96
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian