Diocese of Bukovina and Dalmatia

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Greek-Oriental dioceses in Austria-Hungary
Residence of the Metropolitan in Chernivtsi

The diocese of Bukovina and Dalmatia was a Greek Orthodox diocese in Austria-Hungary .

history

When Bukovina was annexed (1774), the Habsburg monarchy adopted the traditional Moldovan orthodoxy (of Byzantine origin) . Despite the secularization of the monastery, it was declared the state religion in the province. The diocese seat was moved from Radautz to Chernivtsi and the training of young Orthodox clerics in Chernivtsi was authorized. The theological school became the Greek Orthodox Theological Faculty of the Franz Joseph University, newly founded in 1875 . It was the only modern theological faculty of Orthodoxy in all of Eastern Europe. Even more: the diocese became an archbishopric of Bukovina and the crown land of Dalmatia in 1873 , so that Chernivtsi became the center of the Greek Orthodox Church in Cisleithania . The first Archbishop Eugen Hackmann tried to avoid national conflicts (e.g. between Romanians and Ukrainians) within his church. Over the decades, however, the balance could not be maintained; for the Orthodox Ukrainians claimed that the Church was ruled by the Romanian hierarchy . The majority of the Ukrainians from Bucovina of Galicia adhered to the faith of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church .

After 1918, the Greek Orthodox Church of Bukovina was attached to the Romanian Orthodox Church . After 1945 the Russian Orthodox Church took over (with the same Byzantine roots, but with its own tsarist tradition). The complications began after Ukraine separated from Russia . There are currently three autonomous Greek Orthodox churches in North Bukovina (the Chernivtsi Region): one that continues to be under the authority of the Kiev Orthodox Archbishop , one that obeys the Kiev Orthodox Archbishop and an independent Bucovin Orthodox Church [?] . The Romanian Orthodox Church in Romania, which had established a diocese in the Republic of Moldova , took no steps to re-establish itself in northern Bukovina (Ukraine).

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Andrei Corbea-Hoișie , Iași (2016)