The Orthodoxy of Transylvania confronting with Counterreformation in the second half of the sixteenth century
Ortodoxia transilvană în faţa contrareformei în a doua jumătate a secolului al XVI-lea
The Orthodoxy of Transylvania confronting with Counterreformation in the second half of the sixteenth century. The sixteenth century in Transylvania is the beginning of the confessional pluralism and confrontation of the Orthodox Church with Reformation and with the Counterreformation. These are the first contacts of the western confessional currents with Orthodoxy, with many particular aspects. The Counterreformation encouraged the institutional renewal of the Orthodox Church. During the reign of prince Stephen Bàthory the Romanians freely elected their orthodox bishop, escaping from institutional pressures of the Calvinists. Now were planed by the Jesuits the first strategies to regain the Romanians to Catholicism. The Latin origin of the Romanians will be the main point of the Catholic rhetoric and the motif to gain the Romanians to the Church of Rome. The finest hour of the Orthodox Church was during the reign of Michael the Brave when was established the metropolitan see of Transylvania under the jurisdiction of the Metropolit of Ungrovlahia, all these in the spirit of the Counterreformation.
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