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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 history of Christianity in Romania began within the Roman province of Lower Moesia, where many Christians were martyred at the end of the 3rd century. Evidence of Christian communities has been found in the territory of modern Romania at over a hundred archaeological sites from the 3rd and 4th centuries.
Trăirism, an anti-Western Romanian political theory led by Nae Ionescu, associated Catholics with a "fundamentally different mode of existence" than true Romanian-ness. For the Romanian Orthodox Church, the Romanian Greek Catholics in particular had been rivals since the Habsburg uniatism conversion efforts in 18th-century Transylvania ...
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 ...
As Hossu was reluctant to leave Romania, the pope made him a cardinal only "in pectore", i.e. without publishing the fact, and this was only revealed on March 5, 1973, three years after Hossu's death. [17] Another remarkable Romanian Greek-Catholic ecclesiastic of the time was Alexandru Todea (1912–2002).
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
Romanian Orthodox Church (1924) Christian Evangelical Church of Romania (1989) Merged into: Christian Evangelical Church of Romania (1939) Congregations: ca. 220: Members: 15,514 (in 2011) [1] Other name(s) Christians of the Scriptures, Tudorists [2] Publications: Adevărul Creștin: Official website: ber.ro
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