The return” to Orthodoxy in the area of Nasaud

The year of 1948, representing „the return” of the Greek Catholic Church within the Eastern Orthodox Church, mainly due to political pressures made by the Communists, was and is still a sensitive issue and a topic insufficiently capitalized by historiographic research. On the basis of documents from the archives of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of Vad, Feleac and Cluj-Napoca, but also from published sources, the article describes this „phase of return”, in one of the areas of Transylvania, namely Bistrița-Năsăud county. Although author is an orthodox theologian, the article’s aim is to reveal the historical truth, without any myths and exaggerations.