Buzogány Dezső - Ösz Sándor Előd - Tóth Levente - Horváth Iringó - Kovács Mária Márta - Sipos Dávid: A törtenelmi küküllői református egyházmegye egyházközségeinek történeti katasztere 2. Désfalva - Kóródszentmárton (Fontes Rerum Ecclesiasticarum in Transylvania) Kolozsvár 2009.
Egyházi karrier-lehetőségek a Bethlen család környezetében
Egyházi karrier-lehetőségek... • Abstract From the moment they got the permission to study at Reformed Colleges of Transylvania and in this way became part of the big privileged family of ecclesiastics, the members of Csávási Vas family were trying to assure this status for their descendants too. A lot of written commitments of priests originating from the Csávási Vas family, who gained the title of nobility through entering the church world, were preserved in the archives of Bethlen family. Those who signed such commitments engaged themselves in front of the representatives of the family to send their children in a college otherwise these children couldn't get the nobility. The case of Csávási Vas family is a relevant example to present the possibilities of career, which could be reached, even for a person who was not belonging to a noble family, but in the same time presents the changes appeared in the status of priesthood in the 18 t h century. However in 1629 the descendants of priests were ennobled by prince Bethlen Gábor, the privileged status in the next century was guaranteed only for those who obliged themselves to choose an ecclesiastic career. Most of the priests serving the Bethlen family had higher standards of living than other priests. At the same way, the contact with the members of aristocratic families facilitated the access of higher ecclesiastic positions (dean, college professor, bishop). For the moment it can't be pronounced clearly that the Bethlen family had an interest in installing in different ecclesiastic positions people, who were loyal to them, but this supposition seems to become more and more plausible, knowing that the members of the family were devoted promoters of the reformed Church and their representantives were permanently occupying the highest leader positions at the secular structure of the Church. Keywords: Reformed Church, church elite, Bethlen family, ecclesiastic career, nobility, feudal tenant. Posibilităţi de carieră bisericească în anturajul familiei Bethlen Rezumat Biografia, viaţa persoanelor ecleziastice (învăţători, preoţi, profesori de colegiu) reformate din secolele XVII-XIX. apare în istoriografia educaţiei ecleziastice ca parte integrantă a monografiilor unor instituţii. Nu este cunoscută nici până astăzi o analiză mai amplă, axată pe problematica carierelor bisericeşti reformate de la sfârşitul epocii princiare şi până la finele perioadei iluministe. Studiul de faţă reprezintă o încercare sinoptică de a prezenta această problematică prin prisma acelor persoane ecleziastice, care de-alungul vieţii lor au avut diferite contacte cu membrii familiei nobiliare Bethlen. Printr-o analiză amănunţită a vieţii şi biografiei acestor persoane, lucrarea de faţă încearcă să răspundă la următoarele întrebări: care sunt momentele esenţiale ale unei cariere bisericeşti, cum se realizează selecţia, care este provenienţa viitorilor ecleziastici, ce rol joacă relaţiile personale în procesul de selecţie. Cercul elitei bisericeşti cercetate a fost restrâns la anturajul familiei Bethlen, acesta implicând un teritoriu suficient de mare pentru a permite concluzii finale generale. Teritoriul cercetat reprezintă moşiile familiei din comitatele Târnava şi Alba de Sus respectiv scaunul Odorhei. Zonele amintite intrau în componenţa diecezelor reformate ale Târnavelor şi Odorheiului. 24
