"They Must be Brought to the Right Path": Monastic Incarceration of Old Calendarist Believers in Interwar Romania
This study concerns the issue of monastic incarceration of members of the Old Calendarist Orthodox Church in interwar Romania. The practice of incarcerating individuals in Orthodox monasteries was common across Orthodox Eastern Europe, especially in Imperial Russia. Even though this constitutes a ne...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Review of ecumenical studies, Sibiu
Year: 2023, Volume: 15, Issue: 2, Pages: 277-296 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBK Europe (East) KCA Monasticism; religious orders KDF Orthodox Church |
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| Summary: | This study concerns the issue of monastic incarceration of members of the Old Calendarist Orthodox Church in interwar Romania. The practice of incarcerating individuals in Orthodox monasteries was common across Orthodox Eastern Europe, especially in Imperial Russia. Even though this constitutes a neglected aspect of Romanian history, monastic incarceration seems to have been a practice that affected the Old Calendarist communities during the interwar period. When the Old Calendarists were seen as a threat to the Romanian state and the Orthodox Church, the Holy Synod decided, in October 1936, that the fate of the Old Calendarist nuns and monks was to be arrested and sent to detention at isolated sketes. There they were put to work and forced to accept the new style calendar. The archives of the secret police, as well as the National Archives of Romania, preserve various documents in the form of letters, postcards, declarations, and Gendarmerie reports which prove that monastic incarceration of Old Calendarist believers was a phenomenon that extended during a longer period of time and involved at least four Orthodox Monasteries in the country. |
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| ISSN: | 2359-8107 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of ecumenical studies, Sibiu
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2478/ress-2023-0019 |