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2 days ago · The Romanian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church in full communion with other Orthodox churches, with a Patriarch as its leader. It is the third-largest Eastern Orthodox Church in the world, [393] and unlike other Orthodox churches, it functions within a Latin culture and uses a Romance liturgical language. [394]
4 days ago · Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [10] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam.
3 days ago · Both the Latin roots of the Romanian language and the Eastern Orthodox faith to which most Romanians adhere emerged from the mixture of these two cultures. From the arrival of the Huns in the 5th century until the emergence of the principalities of Walachia and Moldavia in the 14th century, the Romanian people virtually disappeared from written ...
3 days ago · Culture. Growing devotion in Romania for Orthodox priest-mystic who suffered under communists. Tens of thousands of pilgrims flock each year to the tomb of Arsenie Boca, a controversial...
1 day ago · The Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Unitarian Churches and religions were declared to be fully equal, and the Romanian Orthodox religion was tolerated. Most Romanians in Transylvania belong to the Eastern Orthodox Church faith, but from the 18th to the 20th centuries the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church also had substantial influence.
6 days ago · Unlike the Catholic Church, which is governed by one central figure in Rome, authority in the Orthodox world is dispersed. Many of the world’s Orthodox Churches are de-facto national churches ...
3 days ago · GOSHEN — The Rev. Andrii Vatrych, the newly installed pastor at Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 61341 C.R. 21, Goshen, admitted he “didn’t plan to become a priest.”
