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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA ORTHODOXA - Issue no. 1 / 2005  
         
  Article:   THE ROLE OF THE ROMANIAN CHURCH IN TRANSYLVANIA IN THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY NATIONAL MOVEMENT (1849-1867).

Authors:  MACARIE MARIUS DRĂGOI. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The Role of the Romanian Church in Transylvania in the Mid-Nineteenth Century National Movement (1849-1867). The mid-nineteenth century was dominated by the remarkable personality of the bishop Andrei Şaguna, later a metropolitan, who was apreciated not only by the Orthodox and Uniate faithful in Transylvania but also by the Imperial Court in Vienna. For the Romanians in Transylvania Şaguna’s views resembled in various ways the ideas Bărnuţiu had advanced before the 1848 Revolution. His views on society, on the relationships between the spiritual and the temporal world, Church and state, religion and nationality, were conducive to a healthy development of the Romanian national life. Compared to Şaguna, Alexandru Sterca Şuluţiu, the metropolitan of the Uniate Church, was less efficient as a national leader and did not enjoy the same prestige. During this period, Şaguna and the leaders of the church, as well as the clergy in Transylvania, had to adapt to a new mission. The Revolution pushed metropolitan Şaguna to the forefront of Romanian political activity, where he stayed for almost twenty years. The Romanian Church in Transylvania had an important role in the Romanian national movement in the mid-nineteenth century, a difficult period for the Romanians fighting for national emancipation.  
         
     
         
         
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