DOCUMENTE OLOGRAFE ALE EPISCOPULUI ORTODOX VASILE MOGA PĂSTRATE ÎN FONDUL PROTOPOPIATULUI ORTODOX CÂMPENI (1820-1845)
Olograph Documents of the Orthodox Bishop Vasile Moga Kept Within the Holdings of Orthodox Archpriestship Câmpeni (1820-1845)

Summary/Abstract: The history of the Orthodox Archpriestship Câmpeni, together with its parishes, believers, churches or their priests, still remained less researched in spite of the great number of documents kept in Alba County Department of National Archives. Among documents of these holdings we also identified an important number of circular letters dated from 1820-1845 and signed by the first Romanian bishop of the Transylvanian Orthodoxes, Vasile Moga, as well as several personal addresses and letters forwarded by the hierarch from Sibiu to the protopope Iosif Ighian. Their rarity,following destruction of the greatest part of the Consistory’s archive, during turmoil of the revolution from 1848-1849, was the reason we chose to transcribe them wholly. Their content is diverse: complying with regulations on marriage (age of the young, kinship, the three readings of banns, concluding the contracts of free assent), appointing of protopopes, election of candidates to occupy the vacant positions as priests, correct filling in of information in the Registry book of parishes, printing of ecclesiastic books, exemption from taxes of the ecclesiastic servants. Special relation cultivated by the bishop with the protopope from Baia de Arieş is also revealed by a letter addressed to him when finding about the news on death of the prototope’s wife, but also from the text of the act by which Iosif Ighian was granted the red belt, distinction for exceptional merits and outstanding work in the service of the church. We attached them to the annex of documents even if they do not have the official character of the other documents exactly to illustrate also this side of the personality of bishop Vasile Moga. Our research is not exhaustive, other archive holdings belonging to Orthodox parishes and archpriestships from Alba County Department of National Archives, documents from the time of the shepherding of bishop Vasile Moga, following to be identified to set up a coherent and real image on what the religious life of the Orthodox Romanians from Transylvania from the first half of the XIXth century really meant.

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