TY  - JOUR
T1  - THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ROMANIAN AUTOCEPHALOUS ORTHODOX CHURCH
AU  - Dumitrescu, Horia
PY  - 2019
DA  - September
DO  - 10.18769/ijasos.592305
JF  - IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences
JO  - IJASOS
PB  - OCERINT International Organization Center of Academic Research
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2411-183X
SP  - 790
EP  - 796
VL  - 5
IS  - 14
LA  - en
AB  - The acknowledgment of autocephaly represents ahistorical moment for the Romanian Orthodox Church, it means full freedom inorganizing and administering internal affairs, without any interference orcontrol of any church authority from outside. This church act did not removethe Romanian Orthodox Church from the unity of ecumenical Orthodoxy, but, onthe contrary, was such as to preserve and ensure good relations with theEcumenical Patriarchate and all other SisterOrthodoxChurches, and promote a dogmatic,cult, canonical and work unity. The Orthodox Church in the Romanianterritories, organized by the foundation of the Metropolis of Ungro-Wallachia(1359) and the Metropolis of Moldavia and Suceava (1401), became one of thefundamental institutions of the state, supporting the strengthening of theruling power, to which it conferred spiritual legitimacy. The action of formal recognition of autocephalyculminated in the Ad Hoc Divan Assembly’s 1857 vote of desiderata calling for“recognition of the independence of the Eastern Orthodox Church, from theUnited Principalities, of any Diocesan Bishop, but maintaining unity of faithwith the EcumenicalChurch of the East withregard to the dogmas”. The efforts of the Romanian Orthodox Church forautocephaly were long and difficult, knowing a new stage after the Unificationof 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 theruler Alexandru Ioan Cuza (1859-1866) and by the political class of that time. The efforts forautocephaly did not cease on Cuza’s abdication, but they also continued underKing Carol I, who supported the efforts of the Orthodox Church in Romania tofulfil its aspirations, in accordance with the will of the Romanian clergy andbelievers, while acknowledging that the institution of the Church “has alwaysbeen closely bound to the destinies of the country.”It was a long, yetso impressive way that the Romanian Orthodox Church has come, from centuries ofbrilliant history to a period of over two decades of the nineteenth century, atthe end of which the status of Romanian Orthodoxy as autocephalous church wasdefinitively sanctioned.
KW  - Church
KW  - autocephaly
KW  - law
KW  - Orthodox Church
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.592305
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/800810
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