This material is an introduction to a very delicate issue regarding the Romanian people: the interlacing of the role of the Church and the State as fundamental institutions of civilization. The Romanian Principalities can be presented as particular situations in this landscape just because, after they had organized themselves according to the Byzantine model, after 1453 they were the first ones to carry on these traditions, obviously with specific traits illustrated as such: coronations, donations, legislations. The role of the Church does not overlap totally the one of the laic state. Each one keeps a certain level of clear autonomy and identity
