Separaţia bisericească de Mitropolia din Carloviţ în Episcopia Aradului. 1865-1873
Arad Diocese and the Ecclesiastical Separation from the Metropolitan Church of Karlowitz 1865-1873

Summary/Abstract: The ecclesiastical separation between the romanians and the serbs in Transylvania was offically presented in 1846 in the background of the Karlowitz Congress on the 5th of august, by the romanian deputy Vincenţiu Babeş. The separation had been an ecclesiatical desiderate of the romanian orthodox people for more than a hundred years. The present study is analysing how the process took place in mixt communities throughout the diocese of Arad. A part of the negotiations and the progress of separation were reflected in the local papers: Lumina, Telegraful Român, Gazeta Transilvaniei, Albina, Federaţiunea, Speranţa, Familia. The author sums up the mixt communities lying on Arad's episcopate which enjoyed the attention of the Romanian newspapers. The study is a comparative one referring at the procedures and the impediments of a peaceful separation. The grounds for disagreement were the orthodox building of the church and the local school. The cemetery was regarded as a common good, but the two buildings had to belong to a community or another. Usually, it was bought back by the numerous side - in this case - the romanian orthodox people. In few cases the groups reached an agreement without the intervention of the judicial court. Between the newspapers recalling the events appear discrepancies, reasoned by the sources used. The information regarding the process of ecclesiastical separation give shape to tense moments in the romanian confessional realities, offering a vivid image of what this desired detachment signified.

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