Presbyterian Protestantism; Papadramantopoulos a Positivist sect; Plato Drakulis revived the wildest Gnostic theories. At present the enormous influence of Western, and especially French, ideas, which accompanies the feverish anxiety of the Greeks to be a European people, produces, besides most quarrelsome politics and a vast debt, a strong tendency towards freethinking and scorn of their Church among the young men who dress in French clothes and smoke very bad cigarettes in the cafés at Athens.[1]
11. The Church of Hermannstadt (1864).
This is the Church of the Roumans or Vlachs in Hungary. There are a great number of Vlachs in Transylvania, of whom most are Orthodox, Originally, the Metropolitan of Carlovitz was the head of all the Orthodox in the Dual Monarchy. But the inevitable racial hatreds of these peoples led to quarrels in Hungary, as everywhere, and at last the Government, always anxious to do well to all its subjects, granted the petition of these Vlachs to be made into a separate autonomous Church. In 1864 the Metropolitan of Hermannstadt (Nagy-Szeben) in Southern Transylvania, was made the head of the Orthodox Roumanian Church in Hungary, and was given two suffragan sees.[2] His jurisdiction extends over sixty-two protopresbyteries (unions of parishes like our deaneries) and one monastery, in various parts of Eastern and Southern Hungary.
12. The Bulgarian Exarchate (1870).
The question of the Bulgarian Church, still in schism, is by far the greatest of all to the Orthodox. We have seen that the
- ↑ For the Greek Church see Kyriakos, iii. pp. 150–201; Silbernagl, pp. 66–76, and the E. d'Or. iii. pp. 285–294.
- ↑ Arad (N. of Temesvár) and Karansebes (S.E. of Temesvár). These three bishops are also generously paid by the Government (Hermannstadt, 25,000 fl., the others, 10,000 fl.), form a congress for their ecclesiastical affairs, and sit in the House of Lords. As they have the good fortune to be under a Catholic Government, there is no Holy Synod as an instrument of civil oppression.
