The Legal Status of the Church during the Union of Romanian Principalities
The Legal Status of the Church during the Union of Romanian Principalities

Summary/Abstract: As an institution or organization autonomous from the State, the Church has always drafted and adopted its own laws through its own bodies. It organizes and manages itself according to these laws, without State interference. Having its own autonomous management, the Church has acquired the freedom to widely and without hinder use it canons, so that its Founding Statute states that the main foundation of the hierarchical synod leadership is represented by the Synods of the Ecumenical Church. The Church and the State may have a relationship based on cooperation, as they both aim at ensuring what is best for the citizen and believer respectively. The State is very well aware of its mission, namely to provide its people with a life based on the principle of good and justice, and to give society material and spiritual welfare. In the Romanian Principalities, the relationships between State and Church have always been characterized by positivity and mutual assistance. The State was organized by the Princes together with the country's clerics and the Church was organized by the clerics together with the Prince and the nobility.

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