Matei Boilă


Matei Zaharia Boilă was a conservative Romanian politician, who later became a Greek Catholic priest.
Boilă was influenced by the activity of his great uncle on his mother's side of the family, Iuliu Maniu, a Prime Minister of Romania. He represented the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party in the Senate between 1992 and 2000.

Activity carried out in the Senator position

In 1992-2000 he was senator of Cluj-Napoca from CDNPP. In the parliamentary term 1996–2000, Matei Boilă was a PNTCD member by April 1999 and then, became the non –attached senator. As part of his parliamentary activity in 1996–2000, Matei Boila was a member of the Friendship Parliamentary Group with the Portuguese Republic.
Mihai Boila became famous by his legislative initiative no. 243/1996 on the regulation of the use of the worship places of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church. Senator Boil's project provided the joint use by the Orthodox and Greek-Catholic communities of Greek Catholic churches in localities where there is only one church, or the exclusive use of a church by Greek-Catholic communities in localities where there are two or more worship places. This initiative was completed by Senator Corneliu Turianu and adopted by the Senate on June 12, 1997, which led to an angry feedback from the episcopate of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Transylvania, amplified by RNUP lawmakers. The Boil-Turianu Law was delayed for four years and then, on September 25, 2001, was rejected by the PDSR that dominated new parliamentary term.

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