File din istoria fostului Protopopiat Ortodox Dobra
Tabs from the History of the Former Dobra Orthodox Deanery

Summary/Abstract: Located in the central-western part of Hunedoara County, on the „border” of Transylvania with Banat, the ancient town of Dobra, former administrative center of the district of the same name, city, fair and then communal center, as well as a significant point on the national-political map of intracarpathian space of yesteryear, it hosted, as a parish, from the beginning of the 18th century until the middle of the 20th century, the residence of a – forgotten now – Romanian deanery. Its beginnings date back to 1700, an „Archidiaconatus Dobrensis” being mentioned, indirectly, during the „uprising of the Curuts” (1703-1711), and then, explicitly, in the tables of the united ecclesiastical conscriptions of 1733, 1750, 1765 and 1767; in the following decades, however, that archpriesthood was maintained only at the nominal level. Instead, another archdiocese, „Greek-Eastern” (or Orthodox), „grafted” on the structure of the first since the period of the broad religious revival movement initiated by St. Pious Sofronie from Cioara (1759-1761), reaches its maximum territorial extension in the second half of the mentioned century, including parishes and branches north of the Mureș River. Regarding the place of residence of the ancient deanery, this was the town of Dobra, from which the deanery derives, in fact, its name. Without claiming to be exhaustive or that of the original, the present study tries to gather a few disparate fragments of local ecclesiastical history and to draw, in the form of biographical medallions, the personalities of his worthy former rulers.

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