ROMANIAN ECCLESIASTICAL ISSUES AND DYSFUNCTIONS IN THE INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE HOLY SEE FOR THE APOSTOLIC NUNCIOS IN ROMANIA (1920, 1923)
Holy See; Apostolic Nuncio; Romania; Greek-Catholic Church; Romanian Bishops

Summary/Abstract: The research in this study is based on the instructions given by the Holy See to the Apostolic Nuncio in Romania Francesco Marmaggi (1920) and Angelo Maria Dolci (1923) on the situation and problems of Catholic churches in Romania, especially the Greek Catholic Church. The papers highlight the grievances of the Holy See towards the Greek Catholic bishops, both from liturgical and administrative point of view, show the existing disenchantments among them, but also highlight the distance between Roman Catholics and Greek Catholics. It is significant that if an Orthodoxy in 1920 was designed to eventually unify with the Catholic Church, in 1923 the distance between Greek Catholics and Orthodox is highlighted. The documentation also presents the idea of the establish-ment of a Greek-Catholic patriarchate in Bucharest, which was partially realized only in 2005.

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