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The Romanian Orthodox Church operated within Communist Romania between 1947 and 1989, the era during which Romania was a socialist state.The regime's relationship with the Orthodox Church was ambiguous during this period: while the government declared itself "atheist", it actively collaborated with the Church, and, during the Nicolae Ceaușescu era, the government used the Orthodox Church as ...
In 1937, the Goga-Cuza government was the first to adopt and enact antisemitic legislation in the Kingdom of Romania, stripping over two hundred thousand Jews of their citizenship. That very same year, the head of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Cristea made an infamous speech in which he described the Jews as parasites who suck the ...
These theologians proved extremely influential after their return to Romania and helped shape theological academies. With a few rare exceptions, these theologians were also nationalists. [8] By the 1920s the Church had adopted a nationalist narrative which highlighted the role of Orthodoxy in preserving the Romanian identity.
According to the 2011 census, there are 870,774 Catholics belonging to the Latin Church in Romania, making up 4.33% of the population.The largest ethnic groups are Hungarians (500,444, including Székelys; 41% of the Hungarians), Romanians (297,246 or 1.8%), Germans (21,324 or 59%), and Roma (20,821 or 3.3%), as well as a majority of the country's Slovaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Italians, Czechs ...
During the existence of the Kingdom of Romania in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the government of Romania systematically favoured the Orthodox and Romanian Greek Catholic Churches. [2] Non-Christians were denied citizenship until the late 19th century, and even then they faced obstacles and limited rights. [3]
In 1948 the government abolished the Uniate Eastern Catholic churches (the second largest religious grouping in Romania, holding 1.5 million people in 1948 [6]) and forcibly integrated them into the Romanian Orthodox Church; this followed from a similar measure employed by Joseph Stalin against Ukrainian Catholics in the USSR shortly after the ...
Daniel, Patriarch of All Romania, Metropolitan of Wallachia and Dobrudja, Archbishop of Bucharest, Locum Tenens of Caesarea in Cappadocia. Patriarchal Vicar – currently Varlaam Ploieșteanul; Patriarchal Vicar – currently Paisie Sinaitul [1]
In Romania, the Communist Party used the same tactics as in other Eastern European countries. [301] The Communist Party supported a coalition government, but in short time drove out all other parties from power. [301] Justinian Marina, Patriarch of All Romania (1948–1977)