IOAN (IGNATIE) PAPP- ,,EPISCOPUL UNIRII”
IOAN (IGNATIE) PAPP- “THE BISHOP OF THE UNION”
Author(s): Teofan MadaSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History of Church(es), Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Mitropolia Banatului
Keywords: Union; unity; Arad; Church; history; Romanian people; worshipping people
Summary/Abstract: Ioan I. Papp was the seventh bishop of Romanian origin at the head of the Eparchy of Arad (1903-1925), the deputy of the Metropolitan of Transylvania (October 1918 - May 1920) and the Co-President of the Great National Assembly of 1 December 1918. On 1 December 1918, the hierarch said the famous words: “The one having risen from the dead resurged, today, the Romanian people, too”. This vision expresses the reality of the “resurgence of the Romanian people”, meaning the rebirth of a defeated and humiliated people. The Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ becomes the light shed on our personal and even community history. This case of Holy John makes us remember evermore that we are the apprentices of He who was com, comes every day and shall for eternity continue to come. If we, as people, would be able to consider this reality more, we would be less fatigued by the ordinary, less prisoners of the transient and more willing to mercifully walk the path of salvation.
Journal: Altarul Banatului
- Issue Year: XXIX/2018
- Issue No: 01-03
- Page Range: 139-144
- Page Count: 6
- Language: Romanian