Subiect: „The Augustan Evangelical Church was influenced by Joseph's and the pre-fortyeighters' reformism. Joseph's regulations regarding the Evangelical church had aimed at increasing state control over this denomination and eliminating the church's social influence. This fact was reinforced by issuing a fundamental document with the role of religious status Die allerhöchst begnehmigte Vorschrift Die die Konsistorien der Augsburger Konfessions-verwandten in Siebenbürgen/The Uppermost Instruction Approved by the Consistories of the Augustan Denomination Believers from Transylvania (1807), a status
that had been valid until the forty-eighter's revolution; the church’s dependency towards the state had become a fact. Parish consistories (composed of the priest and the lay members of the Altschaft, the president of a rural consistory being the vicar) had only locally limited obligations, such as: organizing the religious services within the parish organization, supervision of church order and discipline, religiousness and morality of the community; school supervision; budget and religious heritage management.”
