CHESTIUNEA „TERITORIULUI CANONIC RUS” ŞI ORTODOXIA DIN MOLDOVA. UN EXEMPLU DE GEOPOLITICĂ APLICATĂ
THE ISSUE OF THE „RUSSIAN CANONICAL TERRITORY” AND THE ORTHODOXY IN MOLDOVA. AN EXAMPLE OF APPLIED GEOPOLITICS

Summary/Abstract: The Issue of the „Russian Canonical Territory” and the Orthodoxy in Moldova. An Example of Applied Geopolitics. After the fall of the communist regime, the church life of the majority of orthodox countries from Eastern Europe continued to be dominated by a series of a more or less known crises and internal conflicts. An evocative example is offered by the statute of the Orthodoxy in Moldova, a country that formally gained its independence in 1991, but which dangerously oscillates between Bucharest and Moscow from an ecclesiastical viewpoint. For this context, the assertion of the Russian Patriarch according to which Moldova is a part of the “Holly Russia” is rather essential. One of the most important and most referred to arguments of the Russian Patriarchy in its relations with the Romanian Patriarchy, whenever the issue of the Moldova Orthodox Church is discussed, is related to the “canonical territory of the Russian Patriarchy”. For this specific reason, the paper will highlight the historical and the canonical contexts of the advent of this controversial “modus operandi”. This paper will emphasize the way the argument of “canonical territory” is used in the inter-orthodox conflict in Republic of Moldova and the possible solutions for this controversy.

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