Patriarhul Teoctist şi istoria ecleziastică recentă. Un document din 1962
The Patriarch Teoctist and Recent Ecclesiastical History. A Document from 1962

Summary/Abstract: Postwar history of the Romanian Orthodox Church’s remained for decades an underexplored field, if not completely ignored from a historiographical and documentary standpoint. Although in recent years important books and studies were published in the field, it cannot be said that the above statement has lost its validity. This is particularly true with a view to biographies of hierarchs who have occupied the highest ecclesiastical positions during communist rule. A prominent example is Teoctist Arăpaşu, the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church between 1986 and 2007. Using a document from 1962 and other historical sources, the article connects the main life events in Patriarch Teoctist’s biography with the findings of the historical commissions that assessed recent ecclesiastical history during the 2000s.

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