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Religious Conversions of Former Greek-Catholics in Casin

Summary/Abstract: Written historical data on the settlement of the Romanian population in Casin are very scarce. Until the 1940s, two denominations coexisted in the five villages of the commune of Plăieșii de Jos: the Roman-Catholic, with a larger number of inhabitants, and the Greek-Catholic, with a smaller number of inhabitants. After the second Vienna decision, Greek Catholics converted en masse to Roman Catholicism. When Greek Catholicism was abolished by the state in 1948, the remaining Greek Catholics were united with the Orthodox Church. Archival documents attest that the conversions were voluntary and of the free will of the faithful. Because of religious conversion and institutional interventions, the number of Greek-Catholics in the commune greatly decreased.

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