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Those Romanian Greek Catholics who left their church generally joined the Romanian Orthodox Church for its inherent Romanian identity. Others joined the Hungarian-majority Latin Church, leaving the Romanian Greek Catholic Church isolated and with only 10 percent of its pre-communist membership. [49]
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 Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC; Romanian: Biserica Ortodoxă Română, BOR), or Patriarchate of Romania, 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.
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 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, [365] and unlike other Orthodox churches, it functions within a Latin culture and uses a Romance liturgical language. [366]
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 Romanian Greek Catholic Church [a] or Romanian Church United with Rome is a sui iuris Eastern Catholic Church, in full union with the Catholic Church.It has the rank of a Major Archiepiscopal Church and it uses the Byzantine liturgical rite in the Romanian language.
This is the list of the hierarchs of the Romanian Orthodox Church, depicting the organization of the church. For a list of those hierarchs who are currently members of the Holy Synod , see the website of the patriarchate