The re-establishment of the Board of Directors of the Roman Catholic Status of Transylvania in 1873 and Its Activity in the Period of Dualism

Abstract

The Roman Catholic Status of Transylvania is an institution that still operates today and has a long history. The present study reviews a slice of the history of Board of Directors of Status, which was a leading group of the institution. The research bears the peculiarities of church history research, using the available resources, taking into account the characteristics of the period as well. The text of the study contains excerpts from contemporary protocols and drafts, as well as archival documents. When rewriting, we retained the terms and the original spelling, as this way we can more authentically convey the thinking of the age and the ways of its official documentation. Given the complexity of the topic, we decided to briefly analyze church policy relations in the second half of the nineteenth century. In addition to the complexity of the study, the need for the analysis is also justified by the fact that in the second half of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century, for the most part during the time of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, many changes took place in the relationship between the church and the state, both on a theoretical and practical level, which had a decisive effect on the relationship between the Transylvanian Roman Catholic Status and the Hungarian government.