Nicolae Corneanu

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Nicolae Mihail Corneanu (born November 21, 1923 in Caransebeş , † September 28, 2014 in Timişoara ) was Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Church . Since 1962 he held the offices of the Orthodox Archbishop of Timișoara and the Metropolitan of the Banat . On March 4, 1990, he consecrated Daniel Ciobotea , the later patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, as auxiliary bishop in Timișoara.

Cooperation with the Romanian State Security

Immediately after the Romanian Revolution in 1989 , Metropolitan Corneanu confessed to spying for the Romanian secret police Securitate for 41 years . According to his own account, his cooperation with the State Security began in the autumn of 1948 when he was arrested on charges of having hosted a German refugee. He felt guilty about this collaboration. In December 1990 he became a member of the non-governmental organization Alianța Civică .

Commitment to ecumenism

In 1978 he was a Vice-President of the Christian Peace Conference . On January 19, 1990, immediately after the Romanian Greek Catholic Church was relegated , he handed over the Lugoj Cathedral to this religious community, which it had owned until 1948. Metropolitan Corneanu ensured peaceful coexistence between the Orthodox and the Uniate (Greek-Catholic) Christians. As an exception in the Romanian Orthodox Church, the Orthodox Archdiocese of Timișoara accommodated the patrimonial demands of the Uniate Church, so that in Timiș County after the political change in 1989 there were no conflicts regarding the return of property to the Uniate Church.

On May 25, 2008, Metropolitan Corneanu received the Eucharist in a Catholic Mass, which sparked an outraged reaction in the anti-Western wing of the Romanian Orthodox Church.

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church dealt with its meeting on 8/9. July 2008 with it. In advance, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Timișoara, Martin Roos , asked in an open letter to all members of the Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church for consideration for the bond between Orthodox and Catholics, which would suffer serious damage if the Metropolitan Corneanu were convicted. At the synod, Corneanu described his participation in the Catholic Eucharist as a mistake; therefore no punishment was given.

Award

Disempowerment

On May 20, 2011, at a meeting of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Corneanu was deprived of the right to sign documents as a metropolitan; this was tantamount to his removal. The move was justified with alleged health problems, which Corneanu's supporters denied.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mitropolitul Corneanu ISI Asuma verdictul de colaborare cu Securitate . ( Memento of October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Realitatea TV, September 26, 2007.
  2. ↑ Sabina Fati: Mitropolitul Banatului a acceptat decizia de politie politica: Nicolae Corneanu: “Colaborarea mi-a macinat constiinta” . ( Memento of May 31, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) România liberă, September 26, 2007
  3. ↑ Lavinia Stan, Lucian Turcescu: The Romanian Orthodox Church and Post-Communist Democratization . In: Europe-Asia Studies 52 (2000), pp. 1467–1488.
  4. ↑ Sensation in Orthodoxy - sharing the Eucharist with Catholics . CWNews report on kath.net , May 28, 2008
  5. ↑ Common Eucharist with Catholics: Will Metropolitan Be Excommunicated? kath.net, June 12, 2008
  6. ^ Nicolae Corneanu. Archived from the original on June 23, 2007 ; Retrieved October 1, 2008 .
  7. ^ Remission of sin for reverend . ZonaRomania, July 9, 2008
  8. ↑ Raluca Nelepcu: Metropolitans were denied the right to sign . Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung für Romania, May 27, 2011, accessed on October 1, 2014.
  9. ^ German consulate in Timisoara: Press review May 21-27, 2011 . ( Memento of September 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved May 27, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Corneanu, Nicolae
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Corneanu, Nicolae Mihail (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian clergyman, Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Church
DATE OF BIRTH November 21, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Caransebeş
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 2014
Place of death Timișoara