COMUNITATEA ROMÂNEASCĂ DIN TÂRGU MUREȘ (1700-1848). PERSPECTIVE CONFESIONALE
The Romannian community in Târgu Mureș (1700-1848). Confessional considerations

Summary/Abstract: In this research I am interested in topics relating to the ethnic and confessional structure of the city and I tried to see how these evolved over time. At the same time, this paper also highlights firts pieces of information that the documents provide with regard to the existence of an Orthodox deanery in this area. The first name of an Orthodox archpriest in this area is the one inscribed by Pătru Todoran of Hodac, a skillful craftsman and priest at the same time, on the beam of the iconostasis he built for a church between 1695 and 1696 for the community of Orthodox believers from Văleni-Oaia. The location of the deanery he had to supervise remains unknown. The first historical evidence about the establishment of the deanery in TârguMureş only appeared in 1814. A detailed reconstruction of the birth and evolution of this community cannot be fully revealed largely because most of the archives were destroyed during the 1848 revolution. In the revolutionary context the archpriest’s house was broken into, and even the Metropoly’s archives in Sibiu were devastated, in March, 1849.

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