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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. Since 1925, the church's Primate has borne the title of ...
The Holy Trinity Romanian Orthodox Cathedral in Arad Metropolitan Cathedral in Iași, the largest Orthodox church in Romania. The Eastern Orthodox Church is the largest religious denomination in Romania, numbering 16,307,004 according to the 2011 census, or 81.04% of the population.
The Metropolitan of Wallachia, who received the title of Primate Metropolitan in 1865, became the head of the General Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church. [229] The 1866 Constitution of Romania recognized the Orthodox Church as the dominant religion in the kingdom. [237] A law passed in 1872 declared the church to be "autocephalous". After a ...
The Romanian People's Republic was officially installed on December 30, 1947, and the Romanian Orthodox Church found collaboration with the new state to be beneficial to it. This collaboration, led to Romania taking a different path towards anti-religious work than in the Soviet Union , because the regime found the submissive church to be a ...
Boris Kustodiev – Russian artist known for depictions of Russian Orthodox people and culture. Jerzy Nowosielski – famous Polish painter, noted for his numerous works of Byzantine-influenced religious art. Karl Matzek – convert from Catholicism who did religious art for the faith. Prokhor of Gorodets – icon painter.
Eastern Orthodox theology is the theology particular to the Eastern Orthodox Church.It is characterized by monotheistic Trinitarianism, belief in the Incarnation of the divine Logos or only-begotten Son of God, cataphatic theology with apophatic theology, a hermeneutic defined by a Sacred Tradition, a catholic ecclesiology, a theology of the person, and a principally recapitulative and ...
The Romanian Orthodox Church operated within Communist Romania between 1947 and 1989, the era during which Romania was a socialist state.The regime's relationship with the Orthodox Church was ambiguous during this period: while the government declared itself "atheist", it actively collaborated with the Church, and, during the Nicolae Ceaușescu era, the government used the Orthodox Church as ...
Archbishop of Iași and Metropolitan of Moldova and Bukovina – currently Teofan Savu. Vicar Bishop – currently Nichifor Botoșăneanul. Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți. Archbishop of Suceava and Rădăuți – currently Calinic Dumitriu. Vicar Bishop – currently Damaschin Dorneanul. Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău.