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The Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC; Romanian: Biserica Ortodoxă Română, BOR), or Romanian Patriarchate, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox Christian churches, and one of the nine patriarchates in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Since 1925, the church's Primate has borne the title of Patriarch.
For the Romanian Orthodox Church, the Romanian Greek Catholics in particular had been rivals since the Habsburg uniatism conversion efforts in 18th-century Transylvania. Memories of the Austro-Hungarian Catholic monarchy and its limitations on Romanian Orthodoxy further fomented anti-Catholic sentiment in this period. [37]
The Holy Trinity Romanian Orthodox Cathedral in Arad Metropolitan Cathedral in Iași, the largest Orthodox church in Romania. The Eastern Orthodox Church is the largest religious denomination in Romania, numbering 16,307,004 according to the 2011 census, or 81.04% of the population. The rate of church attendance is, however, significantly lower.
The oldest proof that an Orthodox church hierarchy existed among the Romanians north of the river Danube is a papal bull of 1234. In the territories east and south of the Carpathian Mountains, two metropolitan sees subordinate to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople were set up after the foundation of two principalities, Wallachia and Moldavia in the 14th century.
The Metropolitan Cathedral, Iași (Romanian: Catedrala Mitropolitană din Iași), located at 16 Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt Boulevard, Iași, Romania, is the seat of the Romanian Orthodox Archbishop of Iași and Metropolitan of Moldavia and Bukovina, and the largest historic Orthodox church in Romania. [1]
The Romanian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church in full communion with other Orthodox churches, with a Patriarch as its leader. It is the third-largest Eastern Orthodox Church in the world, [341] and unlike other Orthodox churches, it functions within a Latin culture and uses a Romance liturgical language. [342]
Cathedrals of the Romanian Orthodox Church: Coronation Cathedral in Alba Iulia; Cathedral of Saint Alexander in Alexandria; Holy Trinity Cathedral, Arad (since 2009) / Church of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (Arad, Romania) - former cathedral (until 2009) Holy Trinity Cathedral in Baia Mare (under construction)
The Archdiocese of Bucharest (Romanian: Arhiepiscopia Bucureștilor) is an episcopal see of the Romanian Orthodox Church with jurisdiction over the counties of Ilfov and Prahova. The current head of the Archdiocese is Patriarch Daniel , as Archbishop of Bucharest , Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobruja .