Istoriografia greco–catolică în exil. Considerente asupra unui fals dialog între 1960-1989
Greek Catholic Historiography in Exile. Survey of a False Dialogue between 1960 and 1989

Summary/Abstract: The present article surveys the main directions that the historiography of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church took after the forceful unification with the Romanian Orthodox Church in 1948. There are several places where the history writing on the Romanian Greek Catholics survived. Several centers in exile took over for the national Greek Catholic school now imprisoned by the new regime. In Rome and Munich the research travails of the interwar researchers were continued engaging at times in a dialogue with the Orthodox Church historiographical narrative on the Romanian Church in Transylvania, disavowing the interpretative lines, research findings and church historians. Important production came from the Greek Catholic intellectuals in Romania. While not published except in Samizdat form or as articles in the newspapers of the Romanian diaspora these inroads into the history of the Greek Catholic served an important purpose: they needed to prove to a community that lived at the limits of legality in the totalitarian state that the Church was functioning and preserve the narrative lines from the Orthodox and national historiographical canon.

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