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Interpersonal Relations and Behavioural Attitudes among the Banatian Greek-Catholic Elite (1857–1918) Mihaela Bedecean PhD Researcher The idea of a Greek-Catholic Metropolitan See had circulated among the higher clergy ever since the eighteenth century, return- ing in full force in the mid-nineteenth century, in the context of the 1848 Revolution.1 The ministerial conference held in Vienna on 18 November 1850 regarded the decision to re-establish the Romanian Greek-Catholic Metropolitanate as a solution that would prove favourable both to the church and the state. The imperial decree of 12 December 1850, announcing the reactivation of the Greek-Catholic Metropolitan See of Alba Iulia and the establishment of the episcopal sees of Gherla and Lugoj,2 was submitted to the Vatican so that the pontifical authorities could draft the project for the organization of the new province.3 The founding papal bull “Apostolicum Ministerium,” 1 On the establishment of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Metropolitanate, see O. Bârlea, “Metropolia Bisericii Române Unite proclamată în 1855 la Blaj,” in Perspective, 1987, X, no. 37–38, pp. 215–216; George Bariţiu, Părţi alese din istoria Transilvaniei pe 200 de ani în urmă, vol. II, second edition, ed. Ştefan Pascu, Florin Salvan, Braşov, 1994, p. 670; Nicolae Bocşan, Naţiune şi confesiune în Transilvania în secolul al XIX-lea: cazul mitropoliei române, în Etnie şi confesiune în Transilvania (sec. XIII–XIX), Oradea: Edit. Cele trei Crişuri, 1994, pp. 147–148; Ioan Mircea, “Demersurile prelaţilor români greco-catolici pentru statutul mitropolitan,” in Anuarul Institutului de Istorie Cluj- Napoca, 1996, XXXV, pp. 184–208; Mihaela Bedecean, Presa și bisericile româneşti din Transilvania (1865–1873), Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2010, pp.
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