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Costache Ioanid (Romanian pronunciation: [kosˈtake i.o̯aˈnid]; 3 December 1912 – 26 November 1987 [1]) was a Romanian poet and songwriter of Romanian poems and songs.He wrote many songs that are used all over Romania today, and is one of the best known Christian composers in Romania.
Unlike most European countries, the Catholic Church in Romania comprises in a single national episcopal conference both Latin and two Eastern Catholic churches (one of which being nation-specific): A Latin hierarchy one ecclesiastical province with four suffragan sees; an exempt non-metropolitan archdiocese
In May 1999, Romania was the first majority-Orthodox country to be visited by Pope John Paul II, who was personally welcomed by Teoctist Arăpașu, the Patriarch of All Romania. [48] Problems continued to be faced in the relation with the Orthodox Church, in respect to the status of Greek-Catholic status and property.
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 ...
However, according to the 2011 Romanian government census, the number of its followers living in Romania was as low as 150,593, of whom 124,563 are ethnic Romanians. [8] By 2022, however, the church estimated their numbers have grown to 488,000, as many citizens whose ancestors had converted to Orthodoxy or embraced Marxist-Leninist atheism ...
This mission also administered church work in Moldova, and was eventually renamed the Romania/Moldova Mission. [5] On July 1, 2018, the Romania/Moldova Mission was merged with the Hungary Budapest Mission and renamed the Hungary/Romania mission. [14] Responsibility for mission work in Moldova was then transferred to the Kyiv Ukraine Mission.
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.
Recently renovated huge Status Quo Synagogue in Târgu Mureș.It was built between 1899 and 1900 according to the plans of the Austrian Jewish architect Jakob Gartner.. This list of synagogues in Romania contains active, otherwise used and destroyed synagogues in Romania.