The article presents the work of the secretary of the Bessarabian Metropolitan Church professor Constantin N. Tomescu, between 1918-1940 and 1941-1944. Born in Constanta, after his studies at the Iasi Theological Seminary and then at the Faculty of Theology in Bucharest, Constantin N. Tomescu was delegated as secretary of the Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia and fulfi lled this function throughout the interwar period. In Chisinau he carried out extensive cultural activities: in parallel with the position of secretary of the Metropolitan, he collaborated in publishing several newspapers and magazines, actively participated in various Committees, Societies, Cultural Associations, schools, etc. In 1926 he actively participated in the opening of the Faculty of Theology in Chisinau, being involved until 1944 as a professor and dean of this faculty. In 1937-1938 he was Minister of Cults and Arts. With the Soviet army entering Bessarabia in 1944, he and his family fl ed to Romania. During the communist regime, he was imprisoned three times as a representative of the old Romanian ruling elite, and the longing for Bessarabia intensifi ed his desire to put on paper his impressions during the period in offi ce, in the administrative centre of the Romanian province on the left of the Prut.