Gheorghe of Sîngeorgiu
Gheorghe of Sîngeorgiu, also known as Gheorghe of Sângeorz, was the
Reformed
bishop of the Transylvanian Romanians from 1566 to around 1568.
Background
Gheorghe's family was likely descended from the region of Hațeg or Hunedoara. Hațeg and Hunedoara were the centers of the Transylvanian domains of George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach in the Kingdom of Hungary. The Margrave appointed one of his German retainers, Georg Stolz, to administer Hunedoara. A devout adherent of Martin Luther's theology, Stolz started to spread Luther's views among the local "Wallachians", or Romanians, in 1526.[1] The Transylvanian Saxons who officially adopted Lutheranism in the 1540s published catechisms in Romanians in 1544 and 1566.[2]
Bishop
King
Wallachian printer, Deacon Coresi. Coresi had established a printing house in Brașov and published books in Romanian.[6]
References
Sources
- Ghitta, Ovidiu (2009). "The Orthodox Church of Transylvania". In Pop, Ioan-Aurel; Nägler, Thomas; Magyari, András (eds.). The History of Transylvania, Vol. II (From 1541 to 1711). Romanian Academy, Center for Transylvanian Studies. pp. 255–269. ISBN 978-973-7784-04-9.
- Keul, István (2009). Early Modern Religious Communities in East-Central Europe: Ethnic Diversity, Denominational Plurality, and Corporative Politics in the Principality of Transylvania (1526–1691). ISBN 978-90-04-17652-2.
- Pop, Ioan-Aurel (2009). "Romanian Culture in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century". In Pop, Ioan-Aurel; Nägler, Thomas; Magyari, András (eds.). The History of Transylvania, Vol. II (From 1541 to 1711). Romanian Academy, Center for Transylvanian Studies. pp. 281–292. ISBN 978-973-7784-04-9.