REFLECTION OF THE DEATH OF METROPOLITAN VLADIMIR DE REPTA IN THE CONTEMPORARY PRESS
REFLECTION OF THE DEATH OF METROPOLITAN VLADIMIR DE REPTA IN THE CONTEMPORARY PRESS

Summary/Abstract: The study presents an analysis of the evocation of the life and activity of Vladimir de Repta, upon his death. The most significant articles in the press published in Cernăuţi, Iaşi and Bucharest, in April-May 1926, are identified. The press from April-May 1926, published in Bucharest, Iaşi and Cernăuţi, gives the death of Vladimir de Repta the dimension of a major event, of national importance, which is also proven by the national funerals with which he was buried. It is the sensitive moment of the evocation of the life of Vladimir de Repta, of his ascension to the metropolitan throne. Historians, professors, politicians, theologians, journalists problematize the way in which Metropolitan Vladimir administered the problems of the Orthodox Church in Bukovina and its relations with the Habsburg Monarchy. They admire or critically evaluate the solutions, reactions and responses that the Metropolitan gave to the repeated attempts of the Ruthenian Orthodox to take over the leadership of the Orthodox Church in Bukovina, between 1902-1914. They talk less, but they mention the Metropolitan’s ties with the Jewish community in Chernivtsi, which he directly protected during the war. Most authors highlight the fact that Metropolitan Vladimir managed to smooth out the conflicts and pacify, in religious and internet terms, the world of Chernivtsi and the Bukovina space at the beginning of the 20th century, affirming an exemplary religious, but also socio-political attitude.

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