The researches of Nicolae Iorga on the Roman-Catholic Church in the Old Kingdom of Romania

This article concisely presents the contribution of the great Romanian historian in the Roman-Catholic Church`s history from the Old Kingdom of Romania, enhacing his interest in the Catholic manuscripts from the ecclesiatical archives of the two dioceses of Bucharest and Iași. Moreover, it illustrates the disputation between Nicolae Iorga and other historians, regarding the first writings in Romanian. This study highlights Nicolae Iorga’s interest in the past of the Roman-Catholic Church from the Old Kingdom of Romania, as he analyzed unpublished documents from the ecclesiastical archives of Iași and Bucharest, as well as documents from abroad. Another paragraph of this article accentuates the close relation between Nicolae Iorga and Archbishop Raymund Netzhammer, which had degraded during the First World War, when the prelate was accused by the historian of ,,germanism”.