VATICAN ARCHIVAL DATA ON THE SITUATION OF HUNGARIAN CATHOLICS IN TRANSYLVANIA AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR
VATICAN ARCHIVAL DATA ON THE SITUATION OF HUNGARIAN CATHOLICS IN TRANSYLVANIA AFTER THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Summary/Abstract: This study, based on research conducted in the Vatican Apostolic Archives, seeks to shed light on several data and details that remain less familiar to contemporary Hungarian historiography and that, in my view, constitute important elements of the broader mosaic from which a comprehensive picture of the Hungarian population in Transylvania between the two world wars may be reconstructed. The period examined here extends from 1918 to 1932, from the incorporation of Transylvania into Romania to the signing of the 1932 Agreement, which in several respects settled the situation of Hungarian Catholics who had been placed at a disadvantage by the 1927 Concordat. In addition to this main theme, the situation of Roman Catholic Hungarians in Transylvania can also be followed through a number of subsidiary threads, which likewise reveal aspects that help us understand the position of the Holy See on this question. The archival sources showthat, alongside universal ecclesial and diplomatic interests, Rome also kept the question of minority rights in view and, over time, attached increasing importance to it.

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