SAVA BRANCOVICI-MITROPOLIT AL TRANSILVANIEI.
400 DE ANI DE LA NAȘTEREA SA (1620-2020)
SAVA BRANCOVICI- METROPOLITAN OF TRANSYLVANIA. 400
YEARS FROM HIS BIRTH (1620-2020)
Author(s): Marius-Răzvan MeszarSubject(s): History of Church(es), Eastern Orthodoxy, Other Christian Denominations
Published by: Mitropolia Banatului
Keywords: Sava Brancovici; Orthodox Metropolitan; Transylvania; Ineu;
Summary/Abstract: During time, Ienopolis (today – Ineu, Arad County) gave a lot of proeminent figures of national and european history. In 1620 Sava Brancovici was born in Ineu. His family, originating from Serbia, arrived in Ineu in 15th century. Sava Brancovici was a charismatic leader of his time. He traveled a lot in South-Eastern Europe, he knew Romanian, Hungarian, Serbian, Turkish, Latin languages. He became the Mitropolit of Transylvania between 1656- 1680, in a hard period of religious conflicts for hegemony. In the same time, he was also a diplomat, who understood wery well the international relations and the statu-quo among the Habsburg, Russian and Turkish Empires. He was declared a saint in 1955 being comemorated in 24th of April. In 2020 there are 400 years from his birth, a moment to remember about the significance of his life.
Journal: Altarul Banatului
- Issue Year: XXXII/2021
- Issue No: 1-3
- Page Range: 114-120
- Page Count: 7
- Language: Romanian