Post by c0gnate on Feb 29, 2008 0:25:29 GMT -5
ANDREI SAGUNA (1809-1873) Bishop and Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Transylvania and political leader of the Romanians of Transylvania. He was born in Hungary of Macedo-Romanian parents and as a gymnasium and university student lived in Pest at the home of his uncle, a prominent member of the Macedo-Romanian merchant community. Saguna's decision to enter the priesthood was a response to his strong religious convictions. He studied for the priesthood at the Theological Institute in Vrsac, in the Banat, where the Serbian Metropolitanate of Karlovitz, the administrative center of the Orthodox Church in the Habsburg Monarchy, had established a Romanian section.
www.ohiou.edu/~Chastain/rz/saguna.htm
He was Aromanian in origin, his family having settled in Hungary. With the guidance of local Jesuits, Şaguna's parents had opted to convert to Roman Catholicism, seeking to obtain a better status than the second-class one reserved for most Eastern Orthodox subjects of the Habsburgs. However, the Şagunas most likely continued to practice their original religion in secret - the future Metropolitan was probably never a practising Catholic.
After he rejoined the Eastern Church while living and studying in Pest, Andrei Şaguna became a monk and started his ecclesiastical career in the Banat region. As he was becoming a convinced nationalist, Şaguna refused to join the Serbian Orthodox Church hierarchy in Sremski Karlovci (at the time, the Serbian Church was the governing body of local Orthodox denominations). Instead, he left for Transylvania - where he was able to integrate within a Romanian-dominated clergy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_%C5%9Eaguna
www.ohiou.edu/~Chastain/rz/saguna.htm
He was Aromanian in origin, his family having settled in Hungary. With the guidance of local Jesuits, Şaguna's parents had opted to convert to Roman Catholicism, seeking to obtain a better status than the second-class one reserved for most Eastern Orthodox subjects of the Habsburgs. However, the Şagunas most likely continued to practice their original religion in secret - the future Metropolitan was probably never a practising Catholic.
After he rejoined the Eastern Church while living and studying in Pest, Andrei Şaguna became a monk and started his ecclesiastical career in the Banat region. As he was becoming a convinced nationalist, Şaguna refused to join the Serbian Orthodox Church hierarchy in Sremski Karlovci (at the time, the Serbian Church was the governing body of local Orthodox denominations). Instead, he left for Transylvania - where he was able to integrate within a Romanian-dominated clergy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_%C5%9Eaguna