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Colinde have had a role in preserving and defending the Orthodox faith when heterodox proselytizing tried to break the unity of the Orthodox faith, and to dismantle, at the same time, national unity. [ citation needed ] The Mother of God, who occupies a central place in piety and Orthodox worship, is present everywhere in Romanian colinde ...
Romanian Christmas Carols, Sz, 57, BB 67 (Hungarian: Román kolindadallamok) is a set of little colinde, typical Christmas songs from Romanian villages, habitually sung by small groups of children, adapted in 1915 by Hungarian composer Béla Bartók to be played on the piano after hearing them sung in the below villages.
The Diocese of Covasna and Harghita (Romanian: Episcopia Covasnei și Harghitei) is a diocese of the Romanian Orthodox Church.Its see is the Saint Nicholas Cathedral in Miercurea Ciuc and its ecclesiastical territory covers Covasna and Harghita counties.
There are seven eparchies of the Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church: [1]. Eparchy of Fântâna Albă, with residence in Brăila, which includes the old rite orthodox parishes from Brăila and Galați counties, Bucharest, Borduşani (Ialomiţa county), Fântâna Albă/Bila Krynytsia (Ukraine);
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 ...
In 1887, the Orthodox parish in this district split into a Romanian Orthodox and a Serbian Orthodox community, and St. Nicholas Church was given to the Serbian Orthodox believers.
The church measures 19.9 by 25.7 meters, rising to a height of 26.3 meters. [6] It takes the form of a Greek cross. The Sibiu Orthodox Cathedral served as a model. [7] Ioan Zaicu [] led the mural painting of 18 frescoes depicting saints and biblical scenes, as well as 38 iconostasis icons. [8]
The history of the cathedral is closely linked to the year 1919, when, on 28 July, Banat was united with Romania. The new Romanian administration took a series of measures to encourage Orthodoxy, neglected by the previous Austro-Hungarian administration, which was only favorable to the Catholic religion.