Fodor György - Török József - Tusor Péter (szerk.): Felekezetek az Igazság szolgálatában: történelem, teológia, önazonosság (1500-2000) - Studia Theologica Budapestinensia 34. (2009)

I. Catholic-Orthodox symbiosis in Transylvania (Katolikus-ortodox együttélés Erdélyben) - Ioan Chirila: Tolerance and intolerance in t he Transylvanian legislative corpora (the 16th-19th centuries)

through press, the government affording the public prosecutors discretionary powers in order to pursue with no risk the Romanian press and to repress any attempt of asserting the convictions unshared by the government. And, in order to ensure against any failure, the government chooses Hungarian magistrates who, in the case of the Romanian press, are judges for their own cause.19

4. The Calvinist superintendent - The institution

of the theologian or about a under control/compromised freedom

The submission of the orthodox clergy to the Hungarian princes determined the imposing of some series of conditions upon the Metropolitans, conditions regarding not only the performance of the religious services, but the whole ensemble of the pastoral activity, having the character of compulsoriness; nevertheless, the hierarchs have accomplished these conditions only partially. Thus, in the time of the prince Gabriel Bethlen, Ghenadie II became Metropolitan of Transylvania, documentary attested in this position on the 17lh of October, 1927. He was subordinated to the Calvinist superintendent and five conditions were imposed upon him. The superintendent Geleji Katona István said about Ghenadie (died on the 3rti of September, 1640) that he obeyed some of the five conditions, but not all of them.20

The follower of Ghenadie on the Metropolitan See was Ilie Iorest (1640-1643). But since September, before Ilie Iorest was appointed in this position, the Calvinist superintendent imposed a list of 24 conditions to be fulfilled by the future Metropolitan. If these conditions had been fulfilled, the Romanian Church would have become completely Calvinist.21

19 Ibidem, p. 321-322: “Because in Transylvania the Romanians represent the predominant majority, the government wanted to prescribe freely as regarding the press, in order to be able to repress easier any attempt of asserting the convictions. Therefore, Transylvania has not only a special electoral Law, but also a special press Law, more severe and contrary to liberalism. By this law, the government afforded the public prosecutors discretionary powers in order to pursue with no risks the Romanian press and to repress any attempt of asserting the convictions which are unshared by the government”.

20 M. PÄCURARIU, The History of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Tome II, Ed. Trinitas, Iasi 2006, p. 56.

21 Ibidem, p. 57.

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