Poziția bisericilor față de Încoronare, între diplomație religioasă și tensiuni confesionale
Churches' Position on the Coronation, between Religious Diplomacy and Confessional Tensions

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to address the religious context of the Coronation, focusing on the consequences that the distinct positions of the churches (Orthodox, Greek-Catholic and Catholic) had regarding the religious ceremonial of the Coronation of Kings Ferdinand and Marie in Alba Iulia, on October 15, 1922. Originally designed as a neo-Byzantine coronation, with the anointing of the king and the placing of the crowns in the church by the Orthodox primate metropolitan, the ceremony evolved into a hybrid formula: on the morning of October 15, the Te-Deum service (a thanksgiving service) was performed in the church, and the crowns were consecrated by the Orthodox hierarchy; the civil coronation ceremony then took place in front of the church bell tower, with the king crowning himself and then crowning Queen Marie. An expression of the negotiations between the civil authorities (Royal House, Government) and the religious ones (the Orthodox, Catholic and Greek-Catholic Churches), the ceremony of the coronation represents one of the research objectives of the article, which aims to reconstruct the political-diplomatic process through which the October 15, 1922 formula was reached. The article also aims to explore the impact that the Coronation had on the subsequent evolutions of the relations between the different churches and between the churches and the state, with a focus on the special situation of the relations between the Orthodox Church and the Greek Catholic Church, respectively the status and identity repositionings which the latter had during the interwar period.

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