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You must be married to be a priest in the Romanian Orthodox Church.
You must be married to be a priest in the Romanian Orthodox Church.
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Religion in Romania is the societal institution of the Romanian Orthodox Church.  The traditions, culture and daily habits of 87% of Romanians is deeply intertwined with the life rhythms and dictates of this oldest of Christian churches.

Presents are given from Mos Nicolae  (Old Saint Nicklaus) in early December.  Red eggs are painted in Easter with the blood of Christ (it's food dye). 
The new baby will be baptised in the local neighbourhood church, a high ceremony with all the family, conducted with the priest, the child, the godparents and God.  

With over 98% of Romanians being Christian, only one out of twenty Romanians profess allegiance to the Roman or Greek Catholic churches. 

The main protestant church in Romania is actually the Reformed Church of Hungary and Transilvania, which barely makes up 3% of the total Romanian population, as much as all of the other protestant denominations combined.   Lutherans for example, number 27,000 now, mostly around Braşov.
 

 

And the Winner Is... Orthodox!
The Romanian autocephalous church in the Eastern Orthodox faith gets the lion's share (and lamb's share) of the religious in Romania
 
The Romanian autocephalous church in the Eastern Orthodox faith gets the lion's share (and lamb's share) of the religious in Romania
Catholic includes Roman and Greek Catholics, and Protestant includes Lutheran, Presbyterian and all others except Pentecostal and Baptist

 

 

 

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Romanian Orthodox Fast Facts:

87% of Romanians support the over 14,500 churches and places of worship, with 400 Monasteries home to over 8000 monks and nuns
A Romanian Orthodox Monk
The only Orthodox Monks in the world to give the liturgy in a romance language!
The only Orthodox Monks in the world to give the liturgy in a romance language!

The Romanian Orthodox Church is one of several Eastern Orthodox churches. The Romanian church is second only to the Russian Orthodox Church in size, with 87% of Romanians professing their faith as Orthodox.

In 1859, the Romanian principalities of Moldova and Wallachia formed the modern state of Romania. The hierarchy of the orthodox churches tends to follow the structure of the state. Therefore, shortly after, in 1872, the orthodox churches of the former principalities (the Metropoly of Ungrovlahia and the Metropoly of Moldova) decided to unite to form the Romanian Orthodox Church.
In the process, they canonically separated from the jurisdiction of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Romanian Orthodox Church declared autocephaly. In the same year was constituted a separate synod.
The Patriarchate of Constantinople only recognized the autocephaly of the Romanian Orthodox Church in 1885. First organized with the rank of Metropoly, the Romanian Orthodox Church became a Patriarchy in 1925, when the ranks of the Romanian Orthodox Church grew following the formation of Greater Romania.

The Communist regime

The Communist government, through the 1948 Law of Cults made the Church tightly controlled by the state. The monasteries were transformed into craft centres and priests were encouraged to learn other 'worldly' jobs.
The leadership of the Church had good relations with the Communist regime, but there were many members of the clergy which dissented: until 1963 as many as 2,500 individual priests and monks were arrested and further 2,000 monks were forced to give up the monastic life.
While the dissenters were sentenced to fairly long terms in prison, there were also many priests who collaborated and were informers for Securitate, the secret police. In 2001, the Romanian Orthodox Church tried unsuccessfully to change the law which allowed the access to the archives of Securitate, in order to deny public access to the files of the priests which collaborated with the Securitate.
It was only after the 1989 Romanian Revolution, when Romania became democratic, that the Church was freed from state control.

Romanian icon of St. Peter
A Truly Romanian version of the popular icons of Eastern Orthodox tradition
Romanian icon of St. Peter
The Last Romanian Supper
Done in the traditional icon style of rural Romania, presumably with painted Easter eggs on the table.
Done in the traditional icon style of rural Romania, presumably with painted Easter eggs on the table.

Relationships with the Greek Catholic Church

In 1948 the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic was outlawed, and all its assets, including churches, were handed over to the Orthodox church. After the fall of the Communist regime, the Greek Catholics requested that their churches be returned, but so far only 16 of the 2600 claimed churches have been returned. There are reports that several old Greek Catholic churches were demolished while under the administration of the Orthodox Church.
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Fapte Unice

The Romanian Orthodox Church is the only Orthodox church using a Romance language in the divine liturgy.

Byzantine religious records also mention a unique form of bishoprics in the region - namely the chorepiscopate or countryside episcopate - as opposed to the better-known religious centres in large cities. This can possibly be compared to the "monastic bishops" of Ireland, who united the functions of countryside Abbot with that of district Bishop in another country that did not emphasize an urban episcopate, at least for a time.
The very word for "church" in Romanian, Biserică is unique in Europe. It comes from Latin "basilica" (in turn a loanword from Greek βασιλικα - meaning "communications received from the king" and "the place where the Emperor administered justice"), rather than "ecclesia" (from Greek εκκλησία, from "those called out").

Canonical status

The Romanian Orthodox Church is organized as the Romanian Patriarchate. The highest hierarchical, canonical and dogmatical authority of the Romanian Orthodox Church is the Holy Synod.

Organization

There are five Metropolitanates and ten archbishoprics in Romania, and more than twelve thousand priests and deacons, servant fathers of ancient altars from parishes, monasteries and social centres.
Almost 400 monasteries exist inside the country for some 3,500 monks and 5,000 nuns. Three Diasporan Metropolitanates and two Diasporan Bishoprics function outside Romania proper. As of 2004, there are, inside Romania, fifteen theological universities where more than ten thousand students (some of them from Bessarabia, Bukovina and Serbia benefiting from a few Romanian fellowships) currently study for a doctoral degree.
More than 14,500 churches (traditionally named "lăcaşe de cult", or worshiping places) exist in Romania for the Romanian Orthodox believers. As of 2002, almost 1,000 of these were either in the process of being built or rebuilt.

Relations with other Orthodox Jurisdictions

Most Eastern Orthodox autocephalous churches, including the Romanian, maintain a respectful spiritual link to the Ecumenical Patriarch. Now in office is His All-Holiness Bartholomew I, Patriarch of Constantinople and New Rome.

Famous theologians

Father Dumitru Stăniloae (1903 - 1993) is one of the greatest theologians of the 20th century. His other magnum opus, aside from his duhovnicesc (deepest spiritual) opus, is the 45-year-long comprehensive collection known as the Romanian Philocaly.

Father Archmandrite Cleopa Ilie (1912 - 1998), elder of the Sihastria Monastery, is the most representative elder and spiritual father of contemporary Romanian Orthodox spirituality.

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The Palace of the Romanian Patriarchate
The former Palace of The Assembly of Deputies (Adunarea Deputaţilor)
The Palace of the Romanian Patriarchate
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Celelalte 12 procente

The Romanian Roman Catholic Altar
The Romanian version of Roman Catholicism sees a slightly more rococo bent with typical Eastern European flourishes in this grand Sibiu church.
The Romanian version of Roman Catholicism sees a slightly more rococo bent with typical Eastern European flourishes in this grand Sibiu church.

About twelve percent of Christian Romanians do not follow the near-national Orthodox religion.  Even being a Protestant in Romania is a statistical oddity, and even more rare would to be a Catholic of any sort (Greek or Roman).

The Two Catholic Churches

Romano-catolicii

The Romanian Roman-Catholic Church is a Latin Rite Catholic Church, a distant second-place Romanian denomination after the Romanian Orthodox Church.
With just over a half a million Hungarian members, the Roman Catholic diocese also include a mix of 350,000 Romanians, 36,000 Germans and 20,000 Roma people, most of them in Transylvania and Bacău County.

Roman Catholicism sort of trickled into Transilvania after the Hungarians migrating there in the 10th Century largely converted to the Roman faith. 

In early 13th century, the Cumans, who lived in eastern Wallachia and southern Moldavia converted to Catholicism and in 1227, on the valley of the Milcov River a diocese was created for them, keeping the name of "Diocese of the Cumans" until 1523.
A Catholic diocese was founded in Wallachia, at Curtea de Argeş in 1381, while in Moldavia, dioceses were founded at Siret (1371), Baia (1415) and Bacău (1611). Laţcu of Moldavia converted to Catholicism in 1370, but this is thought to be a political move in order to obtain Pope's protection against the Catholic Polish and Hungarians. After he died, Laţcu was buried in an Orthodox church in Rădăuţi and the following rulers of Moldavia were all Orthodox.

Greco-catolicii

Romanian Byzantine Catholicism is the Greek Catholic church, or "The Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic".   This Eastern Rite or Greek-Catholic Church ranked as a Major Archiepiscopal Church, which uses the Byzantine liturgical rite in the Romanian language.   Pope Benedict XVI raised the church to the archiepiscopal rank in 2005.
Using the Eastern Rites that are a hold-over from Byzantine times, the Greek Catholics, or sometimes "Uniate" church, have always been sort of a bridge in some ways between their Eastern Orthodox brethren and the Western Latin beliefs.  In 1700 almost all the Romanians of Transylvania, headed by Bishop Atanasie Anghel, entered into full communion with the see of Rome, while keeping their Byzantine liturgical rite, a surprisingly flexible dogma.  One of the bigger sticking points clearly is over priests marrying, required in the Orthodox church, and forbidden in the Roman one.
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The Greek Catholics count among their faithful 737,900 parishioners, 716 diocesan priests and 347 seminarians (2003).  The Greek-Catholic Church has been led by the Most Reverend Lucian Mureşan, Archbishop of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia, one of five dioceses with Oradea Mare, Cluj-Gherla, Lugoj and Maramureş.   Curiously enough, there is a sixth diocese under Vatican control in America, Saint George's in Canton, Ohio).

 

Bisericile Protestante Româneşti

"Reformed" refers to the Protestant reformation started by Luther, and is used more often in Romania to mean Protestantism.  Baptist, Calvinism, Lutheranism, Methodism are all products of the Protestant Reformation.

John Calvin
Active in the Protestant Reformation

John Calvin

The Protestant Reformation was a movement in the 16th century to reform the Catholic Church in Western Europe. The Reformation was started by Martin Luther with his 95 Theses on the practice of indulgences. In late October of 1517 he posted these theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, commonly used to post notices to the University community. In November he mailed them to various religious authorities of the day. The reformation ended in division and the establishment of new institutions.
The four most important traditions to emerge directly from the reformation were the Lutheran tradition, the Reformed/Calvinist/Presbyterian tradition, the Anabaptist tradition, and the Anglican tradition.

 

Bisericile Reformate Româneşti

Headquartered in Cluj with two districts (Transylvania and Oradea), the 725,000 members in almost 800 parishes of the Romanian Reformed Church serves the ethnic Hungarian and Seckler community in Romania, about 3.2% of the total church-going population in Romania.
The Hungarian Reformed Church is a key representative of the Magyar Christianity, being numerically the second-largest denomination in Hungary, after the Roman Catholic Church, and is the biggest denomination among ethnic Hungarians in Romania.
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Interestingly, the Reformed Church in Hungary is the only Reformed church with an episcopal policy.  With 22 Hungarian Reformed denominations, it consists of four Districts headed by Bishops, almost 30 presbyteries with 1,500 churches, with a membership of around 2.4 million.    The Romanian Reformed Church in Transilvania has about one third the membership of the "mother" Hungarian church.

 

Biserica Penticostală în România

The Bethlehem Pentecostal Church
Pentecostals number about 2700 in Dobrogea.  The Bethlehem churches have faithful in Medgidia, Cuza Voda, Cobadin, Mircea Voda, Tortomanu, Izvoru Mare, Satu Nou, and now in Castelu (below)!

Pentecostals number about 2700 in Dobrogea.  The Bethlehem churches have faithful in Medgidia, Cuza Voda, Cobadin, Mircea Voda, Tortomanu, Izvoru Mare, Satu Nou, and now in Castelu (below)!

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Pentecostal Romanian Music
The group Armonix from Cluj combines Pentecostal gospel tradition with boy-band harmonies for a fresh edge on Christian pop in their album "Long Ago Words".
The group Armonix from Cluj combines Pentecostal gospel tradition with boy-band harmonies for a fresh edge on Christian pop in their album "Long Ago Words".

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Pentecostal churches tend to be more common where the populations of ethnic Romanians is less than the national average, particularly in areas along the Hungarian border and in the ethnic Hungarian regions of Transilvania. The Crişana Region has the most Pentecostal adherents of any region with over 62,000, followed closely by The Bucovina region with 55,000 from Vatra Dornei to the Prut river.  Cluj has a fairly dense population with about 20,000 in County Cluj.
But, Pentecostal communities pop in all across Romania, with communes and towns of Vinga, Sarmasag, Budeşti, Blaj all having notable populations.
The Pentecostal movement within Protestant Christianity places special emphasis on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, as shown in the Biblical account of the Day of Pentecost. Pentecostalism is similar to the Charismatic movement, but developed earlier and separated from the mainstream church. Charismatic Christians, at least in the early days of the movement, tended to remain in their respective denominations.
Unlike most other Christians, Pentecostals believe that there is a second work of the Holy Spirit called the baptism of the Holy Spirit in which the Holy Spirit is now in them, and which opens a believer up to a closer fellowship with the Holy Spirit and empowers them for Christian service.
Speaking in tongues, also known as "glossolalia", is the normative proof, but not the only proof, of the baptism with the Holy Spirit. Most major Pentecostal churches also accept the corollary that those who don't speak in tongues have not received the blessing that they call "The Baptism of the Holy Spirit". This claim is uniquely Pentecostal and is one of the few consistent differences from Charismatic theology.

Baptiştii Români

The Baptist Union of Romania is an alliance of Baptist churches for cooperative ministry in Romania.

Since independent (or individual) churches have no legal standing in Romania, the Baptist Union also provides a mediatorial relationship between churches and government.
 The Baptist Union of Romania is the second largest Baptist body in Europe with 126,639 Baptists and 1650 churches. Much like the Pentecostals, most of the Baptist population are concentrated in the Crişana Region (40,500), although the second most populous region is the Banat Region with 24,000 faithful.

Hungarian Baptist Churches

The Union of the Hungarian Baptist Churches of Romania was organized in Cluj-Napoca on February 3, 1990. In 1996 the name "Union" was changed to "Convention", making the current name the Convention of the Hungarian Baptist Churches of Romania. According to Baptist World Alliance statistics, the Convention of the Hungarian Baptist Churches had 8519 members in 210 churches in 1999.

In 2004, the Baptist Union of Romania and the Convention of the Hungarian Baptist Churches of Romania entered into a three year partnership with the Missouri Baptist Convention (an affiliate of the Southern Baptist Convention), primarily for the purpose of evangelism and church planting.
 

Biserica Evanghelică Luterană din România

Several Saxon

The town of Nădlac in County Arad along the Hungarian border is the main border crossing into Western Romania from Hungary and also a centre of the Lutheran Slovakian community in the Romanian Banat.   Reghin in County Mureş has both German and Hungarian protestant churches, with the Lutheran church of St. Mary built in 1330, and like so many, burnt down in 1708 and in 1848, rebuilt both times.
Saxon Mediaş
The Sibiu region was once a Saxon stronghold, as was the Lutheran religion
The Sibiu region was once a Saxon stronghold, as was the Lutheran religion
The Black Church
Really, surprisingly grandiose for the Lutherans
The Black Church

Lutheran Church in Bucharest

Serving the Bucharest faithful, a mix of Romanian and foreign nationals attending weekly, in this curious Romania-yet-austere architecture.
Serving the Bucharest faithful, a mix of Romanian and foreign nationals attending weekly, in this curious Romania-yet-austere architecture.

The County Sibiu village of Biertan, dating from 1283, was the see of the Lutheran Evangelical Bishop in Transylvania between 1572 and 1867.  Near Mediaş, Biertan is the site of annual pilgrimages of Transilvanian Saxons with about 1600 inhabitants now.  The village's fortified church is on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. 
Also in the Sibiu area, Lutheran Evangelical Germans still live in Aciliu and Amnaş near Sălişte, which in 1485 was included as one of the seven seats of Saxondom.  There are also several other small Protestant Churches in the Sibiu region.
The Lutheran pastor Stephan Ludwig Roth irritated Hungarian sensibilities in the early 1840s by rejecting any form of union between Transylvania and Hungary, trying instead to build a bridge between Saxons and Romanians. Thus, he attended the first ethnic Romanian gathering at Câmpia Libertăţii near Blaj, and wrote about it in the local press.  Roth's articles show full support for the Saxon-Romanian alliance, and highlight Avram Iancu's contribution to the cause.

Braşov and the Black Church

Lutherans today in Romania live mostly in an around Braşov and the stunning old Black Church in the heart of the old section of this formerly Saxon city.
The originally-Roman Catholic cathedral was know as the Church of Saint Mary until it was partially destroyed during a great fire set by invading Habsburg forces on the April 21, 1689 during the Great Turkish War.  Afterward, it became known as the Black Church ("Biserica Neagră" in Romanian), as it was indeed a bit sooty.
The structure is 89 meters in length and 38 meters from the floor level to the highest point of its only bell tower. The Black Church has a six ton bell, the biggest in Romania, an impressive 4,000 pipe organ played during the weekly concerts, as well as a rich collection of Anatolian carpets donated in the Middle Ages by Transylvanian Saxon merchants.
Today the cathedral is a major symbol of Braşov, and a museum open to visitors of the city centre. A Lutheran service is held each Sunday for the small German community in the city. 
The Saxon Lutherans
The Saxon market towns saw some impressive edifices built, with the striking Black Church in Braşov cutting a powerfully Gothic figure.  No shrinking violet! 
A Lutheran service is held each Sunday for the small German community in the city.
The Saxon market towns saw some impressive edifices built, with the striking Black Church in Braşov cutting a powerfully Gothic figure.  No shrinking violet!
 
The Mosques of Dobrogea
The same blues of the painted churches of Moldova can be found in the tiled mosque domes of Dobrogea
The same blues of the painted churches of Moldova can be found in the tiled mosque domes of Dobrogea
 
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Alte Religii în România

Today 1 out of 20 Romanians living in the Dobrogea Region is Muslim, and 3% claim Turkish heritage. 

After centuries of Ottoman rule across the great plains of Wallachia, and an entrenched Turkish culture thriving in Dobrogea along the Black Sea coast, Muslim Romanians still make up 5.3% of the Dobrogean population.
In 1880, Romanian Dobrogea was over 13% Turkish; today it is nearly 3%.  Over three-quarters of Romania's Muslim citizens, or about 52,000 Muslims live in Dobrogea today. 
The  Esmahan Sultan Mosque at Mangalia is the oldest in Romania, built in 1525 by Esmahan, the daughter of Ottoman sultan Selim II. The mosque serves a community of 800 Muslim families, most of them of Turkish and Tatar ethnicity and includes a graveyard with 300-year old tombstones.

 

Facing Mecca
Few Dobrogeans notice the crescent of Islam towering over their Orthodox and Catholic churches down the hill from this Constanta mosque

Few Dobrogeans notice the crescent of Islam towering over their Orthodox and Catholic churches down the hill from this Constanta mosque

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educaţia religioasă

Restoration in the New Republic

The Romanian Revolution of 1989, which ended the Communist regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu in December 1989, offered the 15 religious denominations recognized in Romania the chance to regain the terrain lost after 1945, the year when Dr. Petru Groza of the Ploughmen's Front, a party closely associated with the Communists, became prime minister. From that time, the Communist Party started a campaign of secularisation, seeking to transform the country into an atheistic state along Marxist-Leninist lines.
Beginning with the 1989 revolution, the legally recognized churches, especially the Romanian Orthodox Church, the country’s largest religious group, pressured the post-communist authorities to introduce religious education in public schools, offer substantial financial support for theological institutions and allow denominations to resume their social role by posting clergy in hospitals, elderly care homes and prisons. Although education was an area where churches registered success in the early stages of post-communist transition, religious education has remained understudied.

Religious education under communism

Shortly after 1945, religious education came under the scrutiny of communist authorities and the secret political police, the Securitate. The Department of Religious Denominations, a governmental body dealing with religious matters since pre-communist times, continued to exist but was transformed into an agency enforcing stricter state control over religious affairs in the country.
Recently it was revealed that the Securitate included a special department supervising religious life that tried to solve the so-called problem of the denominations, especially religious groups and individuals hostile to the new regime.

Post-communist developments

After decades of officially-backed atheistic propaganda, one of the first demands churches in that country put forth after December 1989 was the resumption of pre-university religious education in public schools.
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In January 1990, less than a month after communist dictator Ceauşescu was killed by a firing squad and well before post-communist authorities had time to revamp the education system, the new Secretary of State for Religious Denominations, Nicolae Stoicescu, together with the Romanian Orthodox Church’s collective leadership structure, the Holy Synod, pledged their support for the introduction of religious education in public schools at all pre-university levels.

Religion an Option

An optional religion class, for which students were not to be graded, was to be included in the pre-university curriculum, with students declaring their religious affiliation in consultation with their parents. Students who were atheist or non-religious had the opportunity to opt out of the classes.
The Romanian Senate discussed the bill on 13 June 1995 in the presence of then Minister of Education Liviu Maior (representing the Social Democrats), with much of the discussion centering on Article 9, which recognized religion as a school subject.
First, Gheorghe Dumitrascu, who sat on the parliamentary commission on education proposed that Article 9 read: "Mandatory school curricula include religion as a school subject. The study of religion is mandatory in primary school and optional in secondary school, the optional subject being ethics. The study of religion is also optional, depending on the religion and denomination of each student."
 

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Fortified for the Faithful
Inspirational for providing safety for the soul and for the corporeal realm, this Moldovan church gave comfort in a variety of ways.
Inspirational for providing safety for the soul and for the corporeal realm, this Moldovan church gave comfort in a variety of ways.

The Dacian Church

Complete with alters and priests, the Dacian religion worshipped a Jesus-like character called Zalmoxis who taught about the eternal soul and was himself resurrected.

The original Romanians believed in the immortality of the soul, and regarded death as merely a change of scenery.
The chief priest of the early Romanians held a prominent position as the representative of the supreme deity, Zalmoxis. The chief priest was also the king's number one adviser.
Much like Jesus, Zalmoxis was really a man, formerly a slave (or disciple) of Pythagoras, who taught him the "sciences of the skies" at Samos.
Zalmoxis was freed and amassed great wealth, returned to his country and instructed his people, the Dacians, about the immortality of the soul.

Reînvierea lui Zalmoxis

At one point, Zalmoxis travelled to Egypt and brought the people mystic knowledge about the immortality of the soul, teaching them that they would pass at death to a certain place where they would enjoy all possible blessings for all eternity.
Zalmoxis then had a subterranean chamber constructed (other accounts say that it was a natural cave) on the holy mountain of Kogainon, to which he withdrew for three years (some other accounts considered he actually lived in Hades for these three years).
The cave is claimed to be located in the Bucegi Mountains of Romania (a cave or two in  and named the Ialomicioara Cave. After his disappearance, he was considered dead and mourned by his people, but after the three years had passed, he showed himself once more, who were thus convinced about his teachings; an episode that some considered to be a resurrection.
However, the means of the resurrection and the Dacian's beliefs in that process are completely unclear, and by no means can it be inferred the Dacians had beliefs similar to the Judeo-Christian resurrection lore.
During the rule of the Dacian King Burebista, the traditional year of the birth of Zalmoxis, 713 BC, was to be considered the first year of the Dacian calendar.
 

Catolicii

8th Century Catholics

The earliest contacts of Roman Catholicism in Romania were during Vlach-Bulgarian Rebellion, when the Asens' correspondence with the Pope suggested that in addition to a military alliance against the Byzantines, there were talks about the Orthodox Christian Vlachs (Romanians) and Bulgarians conversion to Roman Catholicism.
However, as the Byzantines were defeated and Second Bulgarian Empire consolidated, no such conversion was needed.

The Hungarian Influx

Roman Catholicism came on the territory of today's Romania after the Hungarians converted to Catholicism in 1001. The Saxons, who arrived in the 13th century in Transylvania, also settled in some Wallachian and Moldavian towns, including Câmpulung, Târgovişte and Curtea de Argeş in Wallachia and Baia (Târgul Moldovei) and Suceava in Moldavia. In southwestern Moldavia, there were also Hungarian colonists, especially in Bacău area.
In early 13th century, the Cumans, who lived in eastern Wallachia and southern Moldavia converted to Catholicism and in 1227, on the valley of the Milcov River a diocese was created for them, keeping the name of "Diocese of the Cumans" until 1523.

The Diocese of Wallachia and Moldavia

A Catholic diocese was founded in Wallachia, at Curtea de Argeş in 1381, while in Moldavia, dioceses were founded at Siret (1371), Baia (1415) and Bacău (1611). Laţcu of Moldavia converted to Catholicism in 1370, but this is thought to be a political move in order to obtain Pope's protection against the Catholic Polish and Hungarians. After he died, Laţcu was buried in an Orthodox church in Rădăuţi and the following rulers of Moldavia were all Orthodox.

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