CÂTEVA ASPECTE REFERITOARE LA RELAȚIILE DINTRE BISERICĂ ȘI STAT ÎN PERIOADA INTERBELICĂ
Some Aspects Concerning the Relations between Church and State in the Interwar Period

Summary/Abstract: This article analyzes the relations between Church and State in interwar Romania, in a context marked by fundamental transformations due to the Great Union of 1918 and, through it, the efforts to consolidate the unitary national state. It highlights the main stages of ecclesiastical unification, as well as the normative impact of the 1923 Constitution on the status and organization of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The text addresses the establishment of the Patriarchate in 1925 as an expression of the new ecclesial and political reality, as well as the adoption of the Law on the Organization of the Orthodox Church and the General Law on Cults, acts that shaped the relationship between religious and secular authority. It also analyzes some of the tensions arising from confessional diversity (with an emphasis on the Orthodox view of the Vatican Concordat) and attempts by the state to impose administrative control while maintaining an appearance of religious neutrality. The study summarizes the institutional, legal and symbolic framework in which Church and State coexisted and collaborated in the inter-war period.

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