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Vladimir, (born Nicolae Cantarean, 18 August 1952), is a bishop of the Moldovan Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate. He serves as Metropolitan of Chișinău and All Moldova and thus as first hierarch of the Church of Moldova and as a permanent member of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
In the 2004 census in Moldova 3,158,015 people or 95.5% of those declaring a religion claimed to be Eastern Orthodox Christians of all rites. The head of the Moldovan Orthodox Church is Metropolitan Vladimir (Cantarean), who is a permanent member of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Mircea Snegur, former President of Moldova (3 Sept 1990 - 15 Jan 1997) Vasile Tarlev, former Prime Minister of Moldova; Stepan Topal, Gagauz politician and activist; Serafim Urechean, former chairman of the "Our Moldova Alliance", former MP; Vladimir Voronin, former President of Moldova (7 Apr 2001 - 11 Sep 2009)
Henry Codman Potter – bishop and son of a bishop. [52] Asafa Powell – track-and-field sprinter. Both his parents are pastors and he plays for a church band. [89] [90] Adam Clayton Powell Jr. – pastor and politician. E. J. Pratt – "The leading Canadian poet of his time." The son of a Methodist minister who himself studied for the ...
Following the 2011 recognition of the Islamic League of Moldova, the Bishop of the Metropolis of Chișinău and All Moldova, Vladimir (Cantarean), described the formal recognition of the Muslim association as "a humiliation" for Moldova's Christians. "Other senior church officials suggested that the Muslim association will seek to "cause ...
Moldova's president waded carefully on Monday into a row pitting the ex-Soviet state's two rival Orthodox churches against each other over Russian influence, saying churches should facilitate the ...
In early 2020, Gaiciuc signed an agreement with Bishop Vladimir (Cantarean) of the Moldovan Orthodox Church on religious cooperation with the Moldovan National Army. [18] Around the same time, he oversaw the creation of the National Council for War Veterans Affairs, an association which he is the president of. [ 19 ]
The Eastern Orthodox Church in Moldova is represented by two jurisdictions -- the Metropolis of Chișinău and All Moldova, commonly referred to as the Moldovan Orthodox Church, a self-governing church body under the Russian Orthodox Church, and by the Metropolis of Bessarabia, also referred to as the Bessarabian Orthodox Church, a self-governing church body under the Romanian Orthodox Church.