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#18711 - 12/16/05 08:44 AM Fagaras e Alba Iulia (Romanian)
davidc Offline
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Just saw this note in today's Vatican press releases:

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Il Santo Padre ha elevato la Chiesa metropolitana sui iuris greco-cattolica romena al grado di Chiesa Arcivescovile Maggiore e, in pari tempo, ha promosso S.E. Mons. Lucian Mureşan alla dignitą di Arcivescovo Maggiore di Făgăraş e Alba Iulia dei Romeni.

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#18712 - 12/16/05 08:51 AM Re: Fagaras e Alba Iulia (Romanian)
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David,

I do not know if it is Romanian, it sure looks Italian to me since I can read it clearly. wink I know Romanian is quite similar to most Latin languages.

Many years to Archbishop Lucian!

In IC XC,
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#18713 - 12/16/05 08:55 AM Re: Fagaras e Alba Iulia (Romanian)
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Yes, the text is in Italian (Vatican press releases come out first in Italian) - but the new Major Archbishopric is Romanian :-)

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#18714 - 12/16/05 09:22 AM Re: Fagaras e Alba Iulia (Romanian)
Pavel Ivanovich Offline
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Well that is great news for the Greek Catholic Church of Romania. It now joing all the other churches of similar rank in communion with the Pope. Things must be going well after all the years of suffering.

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#18715 - 12/16/05 11:39 AM Re: Fagaras e Alba Iulia (Romanian)
Amadeus Offline
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Fr. Deacon Lance started a thread announcing (VIS in English) the elevation of the Romanian Eastern Catholic Metropolitan Church, joining the UGCC, the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, and the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church as the fourth Major Archepiscopal Church in the Catholic Communion.

Above them are the 6 Eastern Catholic Patriarchal Churches: the Melkites, the Maronites, the Chaldeans, the Copts, the Armenians, and the Syrians.

I hope and pray that the Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh of the Ruthenians is next(?)!

Amado

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#18716 - 12/16/05 06:55 PM Re: Fagaras e Alba Iulia (Romanian)
Pavel Ivanovich Offline
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I wander what the criteria is to get that level of status in the Church? I was wondering if population stats play any part here. Because some Byzantine diocese have populations that are so low that anywhere else they would be parishes.

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