The Drama of the Romanian Orthodox Diaspora in North America during the Instauration of the Communist Regime in Romania
The Drama of the Romanian Orthodox Diaspora in North America during the Instauration of the ommunist Regime in Romania

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian immigrants were still connected to their mother country by origin,faith and traditions when they embraced their new state and gave a new dynamic tothe group, which, after 50 years of existence in the land of the free, went throughthe identity construction struggle, becoming Romanian Americans. We intend tounderline that, at the core of the separatist actions, which animated the group acrossthe Ocean, was a unilateral perception regarding the condition of the OrthodoxChurch in communist Romania, doubled by a “custom” among the ethnic OrthodoxChurches of America, which was to declare themselves different and brake fi lial tieswith the mother Churches of the countries that were under the communist sphereof infl uence and domination, hence, assuming an autonomous, independent, selfsuffi cient status, we must say, contrary to the ecclesiology, the spirituality and theorthodox canons.

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