Un caz social aparte din timpul celui de-al doilea război mondial: preoţimea ortodoxă din Munţii Apuseni
A Special Social Case from the Second World War: the Orthodox Priesthood from the Apuseni Mountains (from Transylvania, Romania)

Summary/Abstract: A Special Social Case from the Second World War: the Orthodox Priesthood from the Apuseni Mountains (from Transylvania, Romania). Due to the depression generated by the Second World War, the life conditions of the priests living in the Apuseni Mountains have become worse and worse. Thus from religious and social workers for their parishioners the priests have become themselves social cases, reaching a point in which they were on the verge to leave the area they inhabited. This was also a problem for the Ministry of Cults which offered annual funding, but the amount of money was so small that it caused chain protests. From 1941 to 1943 a progressive mobilisation and solidarity of the priesthood was visible in the number of written statements for the State authorities in which they requested a bonus in their wages. This bonus would have improved the situation of the underprivileged and it would have been a solution for a rather long period of time. However, the Ministry rejected the written statements and continued to offer limited funding which was only an immediate solution and did not solve the main issues. The sole faithful supporter of the priesthood was the Romanian Orthodox Vicariate of Alba Iulia that made all the necessary efforts in offering minimum social protection to the ones in need.

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