Contacts between the Cistercian Monks and the Christians of the Eastern Rite between the 12<sup>th</sup> and 13<sup>th</sup> Centuries<sup>*</sup>
Journal: Review of Ecumenical Studies
Year: 2023

Abstract The Order of Cistercians was one of the most powerful tools employed by the Apostolic See in order to impose its hierocratic vision as well as its disciplinary regime and to forge the institutional, religious coherence of Christianitas during the 12 th and 13 th centuries. The main objective of this paper is to bring forward a problematization concerning the Cistercians acting as a means of evangelization in the service of Ecclesia Romana in relation to Christians of the Eastern rite. I