Aspecte ale organizării eclesiastice în Țaratul Asăneștilor
Aspects of ecclesiastical organization in the Asanesti Country

Summary/Abstract: The Vlach-Bulgarian church was created thanks to conjunctural necessities, after the revolt of the inhabitants of the Haemus mountains and the constitution of the Tsarat of the Assanids; It gradually became an institutional body whose mission was to give the new state created in the Haemus mountains the legitimacy and international recognition it needed to assert itself. The organization of the Bulgarian Church, from the point of view of the territory andThe administration, in the thirteenth century, follows the order established by the customs of the First Bulgarian Tsarat.The role of the ecclesiastical centers is highlighted by the policy of freedoms which the Balkan rulers offered them, within the framework of the specific immunities of the time. According to the model of Byzantium, among the Assanids too, we encounter a series of great monasteries, with enlarged, inalienable privileges, and with an extremely important role in the territory under their canonical control. The numerous protected monasteries, the generous donations and the endowmentPlaces of worship with great fortunes, are part of a program that also aims to increase the influence of sovereigns and control the institution of the church

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