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Roman provinces in modern Romania (106–117) The religion of the Getae, an Indo-European people inhabiting the Lower Danube region in antiquity, was characterized by a belief in the immortality of the soul. [1] [2] Another major feature of this religion was the cult of Zalmoxis; followers of Zalmoxis communicated with him by human sacrifice. [1]
Christianity is the main religion in Romania, ... with any religion. The 2011 census numbers are based on a stable population of 20,121,641 people and exclude a ...
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.
Founded in 1568 in the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom by the Unitarian preacher and theologian Ferenc Dávid (c. 1520–1579), [1] it is the oldest continuing Unitarian denomination in the world. It has a majority- Hungarian following, and is one of the 18 religious denominations given official recognition by the Government of Romania .
The Romanian Army is founded. Romania switches from Cyrillic script to the Latin script that is still in use today. 1861: On February 5, the 1859 union is formally declared and a new country, Romania is founded. The capital city is chosen to be Bucharest.
The bishop of the Romanian Episcopate in America, Policarp Morușca, retired abruptly in 1947. When the Romanian Patriarchate appointed a new bishop in 1950, church leaders from Detroit refused to accept someone they perceived as "communist" and instead appointed Valerian (Viorel) Trifa, effectively creating a schism within the Church. [69]
The Romanians' ethnogenesis cannot be understood based exclusively on written sources, because the earliest records on their ancestors were made by 11th-century Byzantine historians. [41] When referring to the Romance-speaking population of Southeastern Europe , early medieval sources used the Vlach exonym or its cognates , which all derived ...
In Romania proper, Soviet occupation following World War II facilitated the rise of the Communist Party as the main political force, leading ultimately to the forced abdication of the King and the establishment of a single-party people's republic in 1947. Romania was proclaimed a people's republic [294] [295] and remained under military and ...