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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.
The Old Calendar Orthodox Church of Romania (Romanian: Biserica Ortodoxă de Stil Vechi din România) is an Old Calendarist denomination.
Church headquarters (1926), in Bucharest's Cotroceni quarter, near the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy. The Evangelical Church of Romania (Romanian: Biserica Evanghelică Română, BER) is a Protestant denomination that emerged out of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
This is the list of the hierarchs of the Romanian Orthodox Church, depicting the organization of the church.
The Evangelical Church of Augustan Confession in Romania is a strict German speaking denomination with some congregations holding bilingual services. The smallest one is the newly founded Confessional Lutheran Church in Romania, which is a Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod foreign mission with 3 congregations in Brașov, Bucharest and Suceava. [13]
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 Patriarch of All Romania (Romanian: Patriarh al Întregii Românii; Romanian pronunciation: [patriˈarh al ɨnˈtred͡ʒi romɨˈni]) is the title of the head of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The Patriarch is officially styled as Archbishop of Bucharest , Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobrogea , Locum tenens of the throne of Caesarea ...
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 ...