Lingua della evangelizzazione e lingue del culto nello spazio romeno
Language of Evangelization and Languages of the Cult in the Romanian Space

Summary/Abstract: Evangelized in the Latin language, in the context of an ecclesiastically Western Illyricum, the populations from which the Rumanian people took their origins witnessed, at the beginning of the seventh century, the establishment of the Slavs. In the eighth century, they shared the ecclesiastical detachment of the entire Illyricum from Rome and its subordination to the Patriarchate of Constantinople. These upheavals explain why, at the time of the re-emergence of the Eastern „Romans“ in the historical sources, these appear to be of an ecclesiastical tradition no longer Latin, but Constantinopolitan, having the Slavic as the language of worship. In the XVII century, in Transylvania, the local Protestant powers imposed the abandonment of the Slavic and its replacement with the Rumanian to the Church of the Romanians. The subsequent translation of the oriental ritual books affirmed also in Wallachia and in Moldavia, constituted an extraordinary stimulus also for the creation of an autonomous intellectual language among the Romanians.

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