THE RECRUITMENT OF AN ECCLESIASTICAL ELITE:
THE CANONS OF THE CATHEDRAL CHAPTERS IN ORADEA AND BLAJ

Abstract:

This study proposes a comparative approach to an institution and to the persons that were the heart of the ecclesiastical administration of the Romanian Church United in the XIX-th century: the canons of the Chapters of Cathedral Churches. The study is one of the first results of the direction of analysis assumed within a larger research project dedicated to the staff involved in the ecclesiastical administration of the Romanian Church United, whether canons, foraneous vicars or teachers. This paper has three parts: the first two were devoted to the analysis of the Chapter of Canons in the dioceses of Oradea and Făgăraş in the second half of the 19th and early 20th century, so as we should ultimately make a comparative analysis of the two institutions, the element of originality of which lies precisely in the absence of such approaches in the literature.

Keywords:

Cathedral Chapter, Canons, Ecclesiastical Elite, Formation, Transylvania.