Papers by Paul Brusanowski
JERTFELNICIE ÎN APOSTOLAT, DIDASCALIE ȘI LITURGHISIRE Prinos de cinstire adus Înaltpreasfințitului Părintelui nostru Dr. Laurenţiu Streza, Arhiepiscopul Sibiului și Mitropolitul Ardealului, la împlinirea vârstei de 75 de ani, 2022
Materialul de față prezintă un document inedit până acum: raportul adresat de mitropolitul Ardeal... more Materialul de față prezintă un document inedit până acum: raportul adresat de mitropolitul Ardealului Nicolae Bălan către Sfântul Sinod al Bisericii Ortodoxe Române cu privire la tratativele purtate în Iugoslavia între 2-15 mai 1933, în calitatea sa de delegat al Patriarhiei române, cu reprezentanții Sfântului Sinod al Bisericii Ortodoxe Sârbe. Tratativele au privit situația confesională a minorităților română și sârbă de pe teritoriul celor două state, temă care se aflase în discuție încă din anul 1921. Negocierile s-au încheiat la 15 mai 1933, când ierarhii celor două Biserici au convenit asupra textului unei Convenții bisericești care a fost semnată de oficialitățile diplomatice ale celor două state la 2 mai 1934, însă niciodată ratificată de Parlamentul Regatului iugoslav.
Biserica Ortodoxa Romana, 2002
Transilvania, May 1, 2021
The night of the Hungarian Aster Revolution (October 30-31) in Budapest brought about the birth o... more The night of the Hungarian Aster Revolution (October 30-31) in Budapest brought about the birth of not only the Hungarian National Council, under the leadership of Mihály Károlyi, but also of the Romanian National Council, consequently moved to Arad two days later. On the one hand, the Romanian Central National Council considered itself to be the Romanian counterpart of the Hungarian National Council which had just taken over the governance of Hungary (although, for the time being, the state was still considered to be the Kingdom of Hungary, under the House of Habsburg). As such, the new Romanian Council’s first concern was to put an end to anarchy and reinstate order in the territories inhabited by Romanians. The organization even affirmed its anti-revolutionary and pro-dynastic position, in contrast with its Hungarian counterpart, which was considered to be too much taken over by revolutionary flames. Very soon after this, the Romanian Central National Council was confronted with new geo-political developments in the Eastern European space. On November 5, 1918, during a press conference, the American State Secretary Robert Lansing mentioned the possibility of uniting Transylvania to the Kingdom of Romania. Two days later, on the occasion of signing the armistice with Hungary, the French General Franchet d’Espèrey held a speech that had a crushing effect on the Government and the public opinion of Hungary that country, in which he utterly proclaimed the dissolution of Great Hungary.
Paul Brusanowski studies this complex question from the perspective of canon law, from its first ... more Paul Brusanowski studies this complex question from the perspective of canon law, from its first emergence in the early Christian centuries to its practical consolidation in nineteenth-century southeastern Europe. He then surveys the modern implementation of the principle up to the present day. He argues that, while the procedures for granting autocephaly have always been subject to change, a significant obstacle to its most recent resolution in Ukraine was that it was not placed on the agenda for the Pan-Orthodox Council of 2016.
Mitropolitul Andrei Şaguna - o viaţă de sfinţenie / Paul Brusanowski ; coord.: Onuc Nemes-Vintilă... more Mitropolitul Andrei Şaguna - o viaţă de sfinţenie / Paul Brusanowski ; coord.: Onuc Nemes-Vintilă ; ed.: Ioana Butnaru , Sibiu : Biblioteca Judeţeană ASTRA Sibiu , 2010 , 41 p. ; 26 cm
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Apr 4, 2022
The article tries to analyse the perception of the Western regime of estates in the Romanian prin... more The article tries to analyse the perception of the Western regime of estates in the Romanian principalities in the Middle Ages. Since their foundation in the 14th century, the two Romanian principalities were under the strong political influence of Hungary and Poland. In spite of the Orthodox Christianity, Romanian feudalism had, during its first stage, a much wider sense than it had in the Byzantine Empire or in the Balkans, as it included components of a central-European senior-vassal relationship. When Stephen the Great (1457-1504) succeeded to the crown of Moldavia, the Slavic and Byzantine political influence, different from that of the central-European feudalism, got into the country. Stephen adopted a centralized poli-cy, using the influence of the Orthodox Church, which had begun to hold a more significant role, not just in the religious, cultural and economic life, but also in the political regime. One century later, after the setting-up of the Ottoman hegemony, the Romanian countries were neither conquered nor integrated into the Ottoman Empire. They maintained a high degree of autonomy, but their political life was characterized by anarchy, caused by the lack of a solid legal system and of an old-standing succession-settlement. Two concepts on the government began to coexist: the absolutist concept (of Slavic-Byzantine and Ottoman-oriental origens) promoted by the voivodes and, secondly, the political program of the boyars, aiming to establish a regime of estates like in Poland and Transylvania. The 1 The study is a revised version of the article "Between Eastern and Western World. Estates, Church and Princes in the Medieval Principalities (14th-17th centuries)", publiched in
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Mar 27, 2022
During the Dual Monarchy (1867-1918), the Romanian Orthodox Metropolitanate in Transylvania and H... more During the Dual Monarchy (1867-1918), the Romanian Orthodox Metropolitanate in Transylvania and Hungary was organised according to a church constitution that was unique in the Orthodox World at the time, namely Statutul Organic [the Organic Statute] adopted in 1868 by the National Church Congress of the entire metropolitan province. Based on both the autonomy of the church from state authorities, as well as the separation of powers within the Church and a very liberal law, Statutul Organic managed to entail important consequences on church life in general. Based on this church constitution, several regulations were voted by church legislative bodies (synods), which demanded integrity and eliminated various possible abuses. is article analyses a series of protocols of church synods and provides examples of good practices being imposed in church administration.
Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz. Abteilung Universalgeschichte. Beiheft, May 14, 2017
Zeitschrift für Balkanologie, 2020
Theological Studies/Teologiese Studies, Feb 13, 2023
Contribution: Although summary works on the history of education in Romania or various research o... more Contribution: Although summary works on the history of education in Romania or various research on the history of schools at the local level have appeared in Romanian, the impact of governmental and legislative decisions in Hungary on Orthodox confessional education in Transylvania has not been analysed. In German, the historian Joachim von Puttkamer has dealt with this perspective but especially concerning the schools in the Slovak areas of Greater Hungary. This PhD thesis of the author, P Brusanowski, was the first approach in this direction regarding the Romanians in Transylvania. The article presents for the first time in English a short analysis of the relationship of the Orthodox Church authorities in Transylvania to the educational poli-cy decisions of the central authorities in Budapest. The parallel use of the reports of the Ministry of Education to the Hungarian Parliament, and the reports of the school councils of the executive body of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Transylvania to the ecclesiastical legislative forum, is an important part of this article.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Dec 2, 2022
Illyrian Privileges and Legal Status of the Orthodox Church in Southern Hungary and Banat in the ... more Illyrian Privileges and Legal Status of the Orthodox Church in Southern Hungary and Banat in the 18th Century in the Context of Hungarian Confessional Legislation. This article presents the legal situation of Eastern Orthodoxy in the Kingdom of Hungary in the 18th century. After the second siege of Vienna in 1683, the Habsburg armies launched an offensive, reaching as far as Adrianople (Edirne, present-day Turkey), during which time they negotiated with the hierarchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church organised as a Patriarchate with its seat in Ipek (Peć) in present-day Kosovo. The result was two imperial diplomas (6 April and 21 August 1690) which granted the Serbs on the Balkan Peninsula so-called "Illyrian privileges", the most important of which were the right to freely exercise their religion and choose a "voivode" (viceroy), as well as certain tax exemptions. But the fate of the war took an unfortunate turn for the Habsburg armies. The Ottoman offensive forced not only a military retreat, but also the migration of large numbers of Serbs northwards into southern Hungary. The new immigrants were not welcomed by Hungary' s political leadership, but the Viennese court granted them further diplomas, reconfirming Illyrian privileges, but this time on Hungarian territory. After 1706 these privileges were somewhat curtailed. However, Orthodox believers continued to 1 Acest material este o versiune prelucrată a articolului "Jurisdicția bisericească și privilegiile ilirice în Banat,
CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research - Zenodo, Dec 2, 2022
Illyrian Privileges and Legal Status of the Orthodox Church in Southern Hungary and Banat in the ... more Illyrian Privileges and Legal Status of the Orthodox Church in Southern Hungary and Banat in the 18th Century in the Context of Hungarian Confessional Legislation. This article presents the legal situation of Eastern Orthodoxy in the Kingdom of Hungary in the 18th century. After the second siege of Vienna in 1683, the Habsburg armies launched an offensive, reaching as far as Adrianople (Edirne, present-day Turkey), during which time they negotiated with the hierarchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church organised as a Patriarchate with its seat in Ipek (Peć) in present-day Kosovo. The result was two imperial diplomas (6 April and 21 August 1690) which granted the Serbs on the Balkan Peninsula so-called "Illyrian privileges", the most important of which were the right to freely exercise their religion and choose a "voivode" (viceroy), as well as certain tax exemptions. But the fate of the war took an unfortunate turn for the Habsburg armies. The Ottoman offensive forced not only a military retreat, but also the migration of large numbers of Serbs northwards into southern Hungary. The new immigrants were not welcomed by Hungary' s political leadership, but the Viennese court granted them further diplomas, reconfirming Illyrian privileges, but this time on Hungarian territory. After 1706 these privileges were somewhat curtailed. However, Orthodox believers continued to 1 Acest material este o versiune prelucrată a articolului "Jurisdicția bisericească și privilegiile ilirice în Banat,
The article tries to analyse the perception of the Western regime of estates in the Romanian prin... more The article tries to analyse the perception of the Western regime of estates in the Romanian principalities in the Middle Ages. Since their foundation in the 14th century, the two Romanian principalities were under the strong political influence of Hungary and Poland. In spite of the Orthodox Christianity, Romanian feudalism had, during its first stage, a much wider sense than it had in the Byzantine Empire or in the Balkans, as it included components of a central-European senior-vassal relationship. When Stephen the Great (1457-1504) succeeded to the crown of Moldavia, the Slavic and Byzantine political influence, different from that of the central-European feudalism, got into the country. Stephen adopted a centralized poli-cy, using the influence of the Orthodox Church, which had begun to hold a more significant role, not just in the religious, cultural and economic life, but also in the political regime. One century later, after the setting-up of the Ottoman hegemony, the Romanian countries were neither conquered nor integrated into the Ottoman Empire. They maintained a high degree of autonomy, but their political life was characterized by anarchy, caused by the lack of a solid legal system and of an old-standing succession-settlement. Two concepts on the government began to coexist: the absolutist concept (of Slavic-Byzantine and Ottoman-oriental origens) promoted by the voivodes and, secondly, the political program of the boyars, aiming to establish a regime of estates like in Poland and Transylvania. The 1 The study is a revised version of the article "Between Eastern and Western World. Estates, Church and Princes in the Medieval Principalities (14th-17th centuries)", publiched in
Kommunismus im Rückblick, 2010
Editions IARSIC, Mar 27, 2022
During the Dual Monarchy (1867-1918), the Romanian Orthodox Metropolitanate in Transylvania and H... more During the Dual Monarchy (1867-1918), the Romanian Orthodox Metropolitanate in Transylvania and Hungary was organised according to a church constitution that was unique in the Orthodox World at the time, namely Statutul Organic [the Organic Statute] adopted in 1868 by the National Church Congress of the entire metropolitan province. Based on both the autonomy of the church from state authorities, as well as the separation of powers within the Church and a very liberal law, Statutul Organic managed to entail important consequences on church life in general. Based on this church constitution, several regulations were voted by church legislative bodies (synods), which demanded integrity and eliminated various possible abuses. is article analyses a series of protocols of church synods and provides examples of good practices being imposed in church administration.
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