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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 ...
Bogdan Dragoș, [2] by Mihai Eminescu; Boală incompatibilă, by Tudor Popescu; Borgia (1936), by Alexandru Kirițescu; Boul și vițeii, by Ion Băieșu; Bunicul și Artre cu litere de platină, de Paul Cornel Chitic; Burtă Verde (1952), by Tudor Mușatescu; Buzunarul cu pâine, de Matei Vișniec; Bătrânul (1920), by Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu
Baptist witnesses did not enter Old Romania until the 20th century, and Orthodox opposition was strong. Nevertheless, a church was organized in Jegalia in 1909. An ethnic Romanian church was formed in Bucharest in 1912 by Constantin Adorian (1882–1954), a Romanian who had previously joined the German Baptist church in Bucharest.
[2] The church runs the university-level Timotheus Theological Institute in Bucharest and five Bible schools. [2] Since 1949, it has edited Calea Credinţei ("The Path of Faith"), as well as the magazine Ecouri creştine ("Christian Echoes"), [2] expressing its pietistic orientation to life. [3] It has also published a number of theological works.
The Reformed Church in Romania (Hungarian: Romániai Református Egyház; Romanian: Biserica Reformată din România) is a Calvinist denomination and the largest Protestant church in Romania. The majority of its followers are of Hungarian ethnicity and Hungarian is the main church language.
However, it wasn’t slow in starting to implement its anti-Semitic program. It repudiated Romania's obligations under the Minorities Treaty imposed upon it at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, and then stripped 250,000 Romanian Jews of Romanian citizenship, one third of the Romanian Jewish population. [15] Jewish businesses were also closed down.
Lugoj Synagogue [2] 1843 stand Other name: Small Synagogue. Reșița: Reșița Synagogue: 1907–1910 ... Synagogues of Romania, Editura Hasefer, 1997, ISBN 9739235034;
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 ]