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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20CATHOLICA - Issue no. 2 / 2011  
         
  Article:   PRIESTERBILDUNG IN DER RUMÄNISCHEN UNIERTEN KIRCHE / THE CLERICAL EDUCATION IN THE ROMANIAN UNIATE CHURCH.

Authors:  ERNST CHRISTOPH SUTTNER.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  The present paper offers an analysis of the clerical education in the Romanian Uniate (Greek-Catholic) Church from the perspective of its liturgical identity. The union of the Orthodox Romanians of Transylvania with the Roman Church marked among others the beginning of a higher theological education. The Romanian candidates for priesthood could study at the most important Catholic universities in Rome and Vienna, but their education was performed in the spirit of the Counter-Reformation, which strongly influenced the theological education institutions later founded in Transylvania. As a result, an evolution began, in which the Greek-Catholics benefited more and more from a theological education in a Latin milieu. As a parallel evolution, during the era of national struggles of the 19th and early 20th centuries, as promoters of this movement, the Romanian Greek-Catholic clergy partly replaced the Byzantine ecclesiastic tradition as a form of identity with the Romanian national spirit. As a result of these two processes the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church became progressively Latinized and, after the fall of Communism, the search for identity became a problem of option between its original Byzantine tradition and the present Latin or Latinized forms of piety.

Keywords: clerical education, Byzantine tradition, Counter-Reformation, Tridentine theology, Greek-Catholic identity, Latin influence

 
         
     
         
         
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