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  2. Metropolis of Bessarabia - Wikipedia

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    The Metropolis of Bessarabia was created in 1918, as the Archbishopric of Chișinău, and organized as a Metropolis, in 1927. [3] Inactive during the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia (1940–1941) and the Soviet rule in Moldova (1944–1991), the Metropolis of Bessarabia was re-activated on 14 September 1992, and raised to the rank of exarchate ...

  3. Romanian Orthodox Church - Wikipedia

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    After the debut of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Romanian Orthodox Church in Moldova has seen a significant number of parishes switching afilliation from the Moscow controlled Metropolis of Chișinău and All Moldova to the Metropolis of Bessarabia, sometimes smoothly, otherwise through intense debates and highly polemicized ...

  4. Eastern Orthodoxy in Moldova - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Orthodox Church in Moldova is represented by two jurisdictions -- the Metropolis of Chișinău and All Moldova, commonly referred to as the Moldovan Orthodox Church, a self-governing church body under the Russian Orthodox Church, and by the Metropolis of Bessarabia, also referred to as the Bessarabian Orthodox Church, a self-governing church body under the Romanian Orthodox Church.

  5. Moldova president says church must work for European integration

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    Vladimir last week also defrocked six priests who had left his church to join its rival, the Metropolis of Bessarabia, which commands 25 percent of dioceses in the country.

  6. Minority wing of Moldovan Orthodox church accuses priests of ...

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    The minority pro-Romanian branch of Moldova's Orthodox Church accused clergy from the rival Moscow-linked branch of the church of campaigning against a referendum asking voters whether they back ...

  7. Diocese of Chișinău - Wikipedia

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    Prior to 1812, the Orthodox Church in eastern Moldavia or Bessarabia, modern day Moldova, was part of the Metropolis of Moldavia (under the Church of Constantinople). Following the annexation of Bessarabia by the Russian Empire in 1812, the Russian Orthodox Church established the Eparchy of Chișinău and Khotin under Metropolitan Gavril ...

  8. Metropolis of Chișinău and All Moldova - Wikipedia

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    The Metropolis was started in 1992 by the Moldovan Orthodox Bishop of Bălți, Petru (Păduraru). In 2006, the Supreme Court of Justice of Moldova recognised the Autonomous Metropolis of Bessarabia, as "historical, canonical and spiritual successor of the Metropolis of Bessarabia which functioned until 1944 including". [6]

  9. List of hierarchs of the Romanian Orthodox Church - Wikipedia

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    2.1 Metropolis of Bessarabia. 2.1.1 Archdiocese of Chișinău. ... Archbishop of Iași and Metropolitan of Moldova and Bukovina – currently Teofan Savu.