„SE CUVINE O FACULTATE DE TEOLOGIE LA CHIȘINĂU?” – ÎNTREBA PROFESORULUI UNIVERSITAR CONSTANTIN TOMESCU ÎN 1942

Abstract

With the entry of Soviet troops into Bessarabia, on June 28, 1940, the Romanian administration was forced to take refuge on the right side of the Prut. The Faculty of Theology from Chișinău was evacuated to Iași. After the restoration of the Romanian administration in Bessarabia, in the summer of 1941, the Faculty of Theology no longer returned to Chișinău, but was transferred to Cernăuți. This created difficulties in the teaching and learning process, the transfer to Cernăuți of the teaching staff and also of the students, the loss of the archive of the first University in Chișinău – Faculty of Theology – Branch of the University „A. I. Cuza” from Iași. Among those who insisted that the Faculty of Theology return to Chișinău was the university professor Constantin Tomescu, the one who founded the Faculty in 1926 and who served as vice-dean for a long time. After a series of steps regarding the return of the Faculty to Bessarabia, in January 1942, he publishes a communication entitled „Is a Faculty of Theology in Chișinău appropriate?”, a work that disappeared after 1944 from the libraries in Chișinău. The copy found in the Library of the Holy Synod in Bucharest allows us to reconstruct an important page in the history of the Faculty of Theology in Chișinău.