The Greek-Catholic Romania Family: the strenghts of ecclesial identity
Familia greco-catolică românească: reperele identitătii confesionale

Summary/Abstract: The present study aims at highlighting some of the essential stages of the structuring process undergone by the confessionalized discourse in the Greek- Catholic Church of Transylvania throughout the 19th Century. The centrepiece of the „Konfessionsbildung” process resided in perfecting propaganda programmes specific to every Church and in enacting those strategies to inform the believers, but more importantly, to secure their loyalty, conditions which are absolutely necessary in any Church’s stabilization and well functioning. The Greek-Catholic Church of the Transylvanian Romanians has resorted to a wide range of means in order to promote its ecclesiologic message, one which made it both simile to and separated it from the other Churches. The enunciation and the diffusing of the teachings of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church following a series of well chosen books of the theological pedagogy’s list (marriage, the Christian family etc.) occurred simultaneously with the phenomenon of identitary structuring continued in the 19th Century by both Greek-Catholics and Orthodox. This study presents ome of the fundamental reference points of the canonical legislation operating in the Greek Catholic Church of Transylvania during the 19th Century. We have attempted to pinpoint relevant moments of the ecclesial law’s evolution towards a form progressively closer to the Latinising standards of the epoch, which were also significant stages of the metamorphosis the identitary discourse of the Greek Catholic Church had undergone.

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