A miskolci ortodox templom és sírkertje (Miskolc, 2001)

A miskolci ortodox templom és sírkertje (Összegzés angolul) Zimányi Katalin

The register is easy to survey from 1726 till 1909. During the nearly 200 years there were 20 monks, caloyers, parsons, assistant ministers, priests and archdeacons standing at the head of the religious community. The grave of only one of them (Emilián Margó) has been preserved up to the present. There are some of them, whose (Ignác Kallona, Emilián Margó) portrays have been left to the posterity. Today these paintings are placed in the parsonage. As the number of inhabitants was gradually decreasing the religious life was dying away. At the beginning of the 20

th century there were only a few families of Greek merchants (Peszkár, Levandovszky, Xiffkovics) in Miskolc. At this time first some Rumanian then Bulgarian priests came to the town so the language of the liturgy had to suffer a change. The Hungarian and Greek liturgy were replaced by the Slavic Orthodox Church service. At the beginning of the years of 1930s a priest came to head the lessenning community of the parish. He (Szilárd Konstantin Popovics) fulfilled his commission for forty years. Mózes Pikó, then László Boleszka, the present priest, followed him. The opinion of László Boleszka is the most trustworthy source regarding the restoration of the iconostasis, the difficulties and financial means of the community in Miskolc in the last ten years. He knows the orientation and affiliation of the community the best. However, these problems are not the questions of the history of the Greek-Macedovlach community in 1820

th centuries but of the recent matters of the community living in the 20-21

th centuries. The lengthiest part of the volume deals with the history of the Orthodox graveyards in Miskolc. István Dobrossy has taken the work upon himself to identify the burial-places in the past with those of today. He relied on the newest results of the scientific research work in connection with the history of Miskolc and on the notes in the register of deaths. According to the data of the register the first Orthodox funeral in Miskolc was held in 1726. (In all probability, previously, the Balkan merchants who had received Hungarian names like Pál Görög and Demeter Görög by the local inhabitants were buried by Roman Catholic funeral rites.) The first funerals took place at the east end of the Mindszent cemetery where 56 persons (Balkan merchants by their names) were buried between 1726-1782. (The Mindszent Roman Catholic and the Mindszent Evangelistic graveyards are still working so we are able to fix the place of the first orthodox graveyard within.) The second graveyard of the community was the eastnorthern corner of the Tetemvár Calvinist churchyard, where between