Biserica Ortodoxă Română din diaspora în viziunea Părintelui Virgil Gheorghiu
The Romanian Orthodox Church in the Diaspora in Father Virgil Gheorghiu's Viewpoint

Summary/Abstract: Using his writings, but also the documents provided by the Romanian Securitate Archives or the monographs, studies and articles dedicated to him, the author of the present research tries there to emphasize the way how the Romanian Orthodox from Paris is understood by the notorious writer and priest Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu. Translated in 40 languages and screened with Anthony Queen as a main character (The 25th Hour, 1967), he is for sure one of the most important voices of the Romanian culture from the 20th century and it is one of the thinkers that are still investigated and discovered nowadays. For this reason, we have tried to emphasize an important aspect of his work and activity and to show how, using his skills as a priest, he will present and preserve the Romanian spirituality in exile, how he managed to create relationships with the most important representatives of other Churches and in the same time, how he used his writer skills in order to promote his Church or to prevent the attempts of the Romanian Securitate to discredit it.

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