With his brother’s name being Dominic Majlat, and his being Ali Majlat, and especially with his parents sending him to an orphanage, I’m sticking to Eastern Orthodox. That all sounds very “Romanian” to me... :-)
BUT, if someone can show it to be different, I’m open to hearing that...
Ummm..., on second thought, instead of him being Eastern Orthodox, perhaps I might go for Roman Catholic, instead, if the name is more Hungarian...
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From post #10 — “majlath is a hungarian name. It is also associated with slovakia (oldest source) and romania (some part of historical hungarian empire now in romania — transylvania)”