Metropolitan Andrei Șaguna and the Diocese of Caransebeș - People, Facts, Places
Metropolitan Andrei Șaguna and the Diocese of Caransebeș - People, Facts, Places

Summary/Abstract: The biography of Metropolitan Andrei Șaguna, recorded by the vicar Nicolae Popea, the future bishop of Caransebeș, but also the researches of recent years show many convergences between the people and deeds of the people of Banat in the Diocese of Caransebeș and the great Transylvanian hierarch. Bishop Ioan Popasu, even if he was not elected as metropolitan of Transylvania, to the detriment of bishop Andrei Șaguna, transferred all his efforts to the Diocese of Caransebeș, established by Șaguna and pastored by Popasu. The correspondence kept in the archive of the Diocese of Caransebeș highlights the metropolitan’s concern for the consolidation of the metropolitan synodality and its constitutionality, but also the building of the new diocese on solid principles. However, the Diocese of Caransebeș remains the only institution of this level established by Metropolitan Andrei Șaguna, thus being able to create the Romanian Orthodox Metropolis with the two suffragan dioceses. The elements capitalized in this modest contribution are supported in numerous testimonies of archival documents and the press that confirm the constant devotion of the people of Banat to the Metropolitan of Sibiu. All the hierarchs of the Diocese of Caransebeș, until the abusive abolition in 1949, rightfully declared themselves shagunists, organizing annual anniversary events like the sibians, on November 30, until 1873, and then commemorative events dedicated to the hierarch. This aspect confirmed the fact that shagunism did not refer to a person, but to a state of mind, somehow needed in our times as well.

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