THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ROMANIAN AUTOCEPHALOUS ORTHODOX CHURCH

Horia DUMİTRESCU

doi:https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.592305

Makale detayları

THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ROMANIAN AUTOCEPHALOUS ORTHODOX CHURCH

Yazarlar:

Horia DUMİTRESCU

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences 2019 Vol.5 Issue 14, pp.790-796

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

9/2019

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000716727

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.592305

Özet:

 


The acknowledgment of autocephaly represents a
historical moment for the Romanian Orthodox Church, it means full freedom in
organizing and administering internal affairs, without any interference or
control of any church authority from outside. This church act did not remove
the Romanian Orthodox Church from the unity of ecumenical Orthodoxy, but, on
the contrary, was such as to preserve and ensure good relations with the
Ecumenical Patriarchate and all other SisterOrthodoxChurches, and promote a dogmatic,
cult, canonical and work unity. The Orthodox Church in the Romanian
territories, organized by the foundation of the Metropolis of Ungro-Wallachia
(1359) and the Metropolis of Moldavia and Suceava (1401), became one of the
fundamental institutions of the state, supporting the strengthening of the
ruling power, to which it conferred spiritual legitimacy. 


The action of formal recognition of autocephaly
culminated in the Ad Hoc Divan Assembly’s 1857 vote of desiderata calling for
“recognition of the independence of the Eastern Orthodox Church, from the
United Principalities, of any Diocesan Bishop, but maintaining unity of faith
with the EcumenicalChurch of the East with
regard to the dogmas”. The efforts of the Romanian Orthodox Church for
autocephaly were long and difficult, knowing a new stage after the Unification
of the Principalities in 1859 and the unification of their state life (1862),
which made it necessary to organize the NationalChurch.
This was strongly supported by the metropolitans Nyphon of Ungro-Wallachia
(1850-1875) and Calinic of Moldavia (1865-1875) and warmly embraced by the
ruler Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1859-1866) and by the political class of that time. 


The efforts for
autocephaly did not cease on Cuza’s abdication, but they also continued under
King Carol I, who supported the efforts of the Orthodox Church in Romania to
fulfil its aspirations, in accordance with the will of the Romanian clergy and
believers, while acknowledging that the institution of the Church “has always
been closely bound to the destinies of the country.”It was a long, yet
so impressive way that the Romanian Orthodox Church has come, from centuries of
brilliant history to a period of over two decades of the nineteenth century, at
the end of which the status of Romanian Orthodoxy as autocephalous church was
definitively sanctioned.


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Makale detayları

THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ROMANIAN AUTOCEPHALOUS ORTHODOX CHURCH

Yazarlar: Horia DUMİTRESCU

Ana Başlıklar: Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi: IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences 2019 Vol.5 Issue 14, pp.790-796

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 9/2019

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000716727

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.592305

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Horia DUMİTRESCU

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji & antropoloji

Dergi:

IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences 2019 Vol.5 Issue 14, pp.790-796

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

9/2019

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000716727

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.592305