ABSTRACT
The agreement made by Transylvanian Orthodox clergy to unite with Rome at the end of the seventeenth century has provoked much heated debate among Romanian historians. Union also led to the construction and development of a new Greek Catholic confessional identity in Transylvania which brought Transylvania's Romanian community into closer contact with the world of Latin Christendom. This chapter focuses on the stages of development of this Greek Catholic identity in the eighteenth century. The chapter also highlights the role played by printed religious literature in articulating the position of the Transylvanian Greek Catholic Church between Latin Catholicism and Orthodoxy. The acts of union agreed in 1697 with metropolitan Teofil and the protopopes of the Transylvanian Orthodox Church recognized the Pope as the supreme head of the Church. In Transylvania there were no popular demands for union with Rome and neither parish clergy nor ordinary lay believers played any significant part in the formal process of it.
