![]() ![]() ![]() The law on the functioning of the Romanian Orthodox Church counted 46 articles. The Statute on the organization of the Romanian Orthodox Church adopted by the Romanian parliament on May 6, 1925, counted 178 articles. It had to handle public funds for paying clergymen in the newly acquired territories and, generally speaking, manage the relationship with the state. The Church had to establishing a uniform interpretation of canon law. Consequently, the Romanian Orthodox Church needed massive reorganization in order to incorporate congregations from these new provinces. Īfter World War I, the Kingdom of Romania significantly increased its territory. ![]() A strong emphasis was placed on church music, canon law, church history, and exegesis. In the early twentieth century the curriculum of a priest included subjects such as hygiene, calligraphy, accountancy, psychology, Romanian literature, geometry, chemistry, botany, and gymnastics. The focus of priestly education was practical and general rather than specialized. The theological institute at Sibiu, for example, had only one theologian as part of its faculty the rest were historians, journalists, naturalists, and agronomists. Romanian Orthodox theological education was underdeveloped at the end of the nineteenth century. In 1872, the Orthodox churches in the principalities, the Metropolis of Ungro-Wallachia and the Metropolis of Moldavia, merged to form the Romanian Orthodox Church.įollowing the international recognition of the independence of the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia (later Kingdom of Romania) in 1878, after a long period of negotiations with the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Patriarch Joachim IV granted recognition to the autocephalous Metropolis of Romania in 1885, which was raised to the rank of Patriarchate in 1925. Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza, who had in 1863 carried out a mass confiscation of monastic estates in the face of stiff opposition from the Greek hierarchy in Constantinople, in 1865 pushed through a legislation that proclaimed complete independence of the church in the principalities from the patriarchate. The Orthodox hierarchy in the territory of modern Romania had existed within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople until 1865 when the churches in the Romanian principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia embarked on the path of ecclesiastical independence by nominating Nifon Rusailă, Metropolitan of Ungro-Wallachia, as the first Romanian primate. Orthodox believers in Romania according to the 2002 census In the Principalities and the Kingdom of Romania Members of the Romanian Orthodox Church sometimes refer to Orthodox Christian doctrine as Dreapta credință ("right/correct belief" or "true faith" compare to Greek ὀρθὴ δόξα, "straight/correct belief"). The majority of Romania's population (16,367,267, or 85.9% of those for whom data were available, according to the 2011 census data ), as well as some 720,000 Moldovans, belong to the Romanian Orthodox Church. It is the only autocephalous church within Eastern Orthodoxy to have a Romance language for liturgical use. Its jurisdiction covers the territories of Romania and Moldova, with additional dioceses for Romanians living in nearby Serbia and Hungary, as well as for diaspora communities in Central and Western Europe, North America and Oceania. Since 1925, the church's Primate bears the title of Patriarch. The Romanian Orthodox Church ( ROC Romanian: Biserica Ortodoxă Română, BOR), or Patriarchate of Romania, 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. ^ disputed with the Russian Orthodox Church Old Calendarist Romanian Orthodox Church (1925)ġ6,367,267 in Romania 720,000 in Moldova 11,203 in United States Ī. Ukrainian Orthodox Vicariate, Army of the Lord and Diocese of Gyula
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