The Romanian Concordat with Vatican from an Orthodox Perspective – a historiographic-religious approach
The Romanian Concordat with Vatican from an Orthodox Perspective – a historiographic-religious approach

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian Concordat with the Vatican signed in 1929 represented for sure an important moment in the history of the dialogue between the two states. In the same time constituted the topic of complex debates, parliamentary discussions and polemics especially between the Orthodox and the Catholics from this country. The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church released a point of view that was against its ratification, its representatives like the Patriarch Miron Cristea, the Metropolitan from Sibiu Nicolae Bălan, but also theologians like Dumitru Stăniloae, Ioan Lupaș, or Grigorie T. Marcu protested against it and layman like Lazăr Iacob or Onisifor Ghibu tried to offer a historical and law perspective on the topic, underlining the fact that there were some aspects that should be considered as unconstitutional and it should be find a way to bring also the Romanian Orthodox Church on a position of equality with the Roman and Greek-Catholic ones. In the present research we will try to bring into attention the way how the Concordat was perceived by the Orthodox, the way how they have understood it, their critics and the requests that they had in regard with its content. We will both use there the texts of the aforementioned authors, the ones of later Orthodox scholars like Bartolomeu Valeriu Anania, but also recent historiography dedicated to the topic. From the methodological point of view, the work will be rather a review of literature and the analytic-deductive method will be the one mostly used.

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