Mirajul Unirii Religioase (I). Nunțiul Pacelli și un proiect german despre Unirea cu Roma a Ortodoxiei românești în anul 1918
The Mirage of the Religious Union (I). Nuncio Pacelli and a German Project about the Unification with Rome of the Romanian Orthodoxy in 1918

Summary/Abstract: The present study discusses a theme not at all evaluated in the Romanian historiography: a German project to achieve the religious union of Romanians and Bulgarians of Orthodox religion with Rome. The project, advanced by Chancellor von Hertling, involved the acceptance of the Holy See for the realization of the religious union with the help of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bucharest, Raymund Netzhammer and the Bulgarian King Ferdinand I. Seen in a political key, the religious union of the Romanians and Bulgarians was also, for the authorities in Berlin, a mean of opposing the advance of the Bolshevik revolution. The mediator between the authorities of the Second Reich and the Holy See was Eugenio Pacelli, the Apostolic Nuncio in Munich, the future Pope Pius XII.

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