For the Rest of Their Life The Retirement of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Clergy

For the Rest of Their Life: The Retirement of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Clergy The topic of the present study is the pension of the clergy of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Archdiocese in the late 19th century and early 20th century. We focused on the creation of a genuine Pension Fund for the Romanian clergy, and also on the steps taken by the Church governance in order to adapt the purpose of the Fund to the realities of the 20th century We intended to demonstrate that the establishment of the pension fund is part of the larger process of professionalization of the Romanian Greek-Catholic clergy also being a feature of the setup of this particular professional category In order to support our research we used a series of unpublished documents and other ecclesiastical sources, such as the Protocol of the incapacitated priests from the Archdiocese, synod decrees, and the Schematismi of the Archdiocesan clergy covering a period of time between 1865 and 1921.