Problema situaţiei financiare a clerului la sfârşitul secolului al XIX-lea. Legea pentru îmbunătăţirea sorţii clerului – preliminarii
The problem of the financial situation of the clergy in the late 19th century. The law for the improvement of the fate of the clergy – preliminaries

Author(s): Vasile-Lucian V. GOLDAN
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, History of Religion
Published by: Editura Doxologia
Keywords: priests' salaries; Metropolitanate of Moldavia; church administrative legislation; 19th century;
Summary/Abstract: One of the problems of church administration that marked the archbishopric of Iasi and Bucharest in the second half of the 19th century was the material situation of the lay clergy, which was far from satisfactory. This problem, the poverty of a significant part of the priests, attracted the attention of the superior clergy, but only after significant protests of the "subordinates". Two of these protests materialized in the congresses held by them in 1882 in Bucharest and 1885 in Focșani. The peculiarity of these priestly congresses is that the meetings were held without the blessing and consent of the hierarchs. Using the periodical "Deșteptarea" the priests were to publicly lament their fate, condemning the abusive behavior of the hierarchs in their dealings with them, the lack of representatives (priests of myrrh) in the Holy Synod and the lack of empathy of the hierarchs towards their problems. The brother priests employed in the administrative apparatus were not forgotten either, as they were accused of putting pressure on priests to pay various dues to the diocesan centers.

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