Catholic Church in Romania

Romanian Catholics, like Catholics elsewhere, are members of the Catholic Church under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and Curia in Rome. The administration for the local Latin Church is centered in Bucharest, and comprises two archdioceses and four other dioceses. It is the second largest Romanian denomination after the Romanian Orthodox Church, and one of the 18 state-recognized religions. As of 2021^[update], 5.2% of Romanians identified as Catholic.^[1] The 2012 census indicated that there were 741,276 Romanian citizens adhering to the Latin Church (3.89% of the population). Of these, the largest groups were Hungarians (54.7% or 405,212, including Székely and Csángó), Romanians (38.2% or 283,092), Germans (1.7% or 12,495) and Slovaks (0.9% or 6,853).^[2]

Most Romanian Latin Catholics inhabit the region of Transylvania and Bacău County in Moldavia.^[3] Smaller Latin Catholic communities exist among Banat Bulgarians, Italian-Romanians, Polish-Romanians, Croat-Romanians and Krashovani, Czech-Romanians and the local Romani people.^[4]

The Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic is an Eastern Catholic sui iuris church which uses the Byzantine Rite. It has separate jurisdictions, five eparchies, and one archeparchy headed by a major archbishop (thus the church has its own synod), and has historically been strongest in Transylvania. The majority of its members are Romanians, with groups of Ukrainians from northern Romania.^[4] Members of the Armenian community who belong to the Armenian Catholic Church are organized in the Latin Church-led Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Romania. The Armenian Rite as used by its largely Transylvanian membership was significantly hybridized into the 20th century.^[5]^[6]

^ (in Romanian) "Primele date provizorii pentru Recensământul Populației și Locuințelor, runda 2021 "; retrieved January 7, 2022
^ (in Romanian) "Biserica Romano-Catolică" Archived 2015-02-21 at the Wayback Machine, at the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs, Under-Secretariat for Culture and Religious Affairs; retrieved February 21, 2015
^ Earl A. Pope, "Protestantism in Romania", in Sabrina Petra Ramet (ed.), Protestantism and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia: The Communist and Postcommunist Eras, Duke University Press, Durham, 1992, p.158-160. ISBN 0-8223-1241-7
^ ^a ^b Diversitate etnoculturală în Europa, at the Resource Center for Ethno-cultural Diversity; retrieved July 25, 2007
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^ Attwater, Donald, ed. (1962). "Armenian Rite, Catholics of the". A Catholic Dictionary (3rd ed.). The Macmillan Company.

[census22-1] (in Romanian) "Primele date provizorii pentru Recensământul Populației și Locuințelor, runda 2021 "; retrieved January 7, 2022

[mncult-2] (in Romanian) "Biserica Romano-Catolică" Archived 2015-02-21 at the Wayback Machine, at the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs, Under-Secretariat for Culture and Religious Affairs; retrieved February 21, 2015

[poperamet-3] Earl A. Pope, "Protestantism in Romania", in Sabrina Petra Ramet (ed.), Protestantism and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia: The Communist and Postcommunist Eras, Duke University Press, Durham, 1992, p.158-160. ISBN 0-8223-1241-7

[pliantcrdec-4] Diversitate etnoculturală în Europa, at the Resource Center for Ethno-cultural Diversity; retrieved July 25, 2007

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[6] Attwater, Donald, ed. (1962). "Armenian Rite, Catholics of the". A Catholic Dictionary (3rd ed.). The Macmillan Company.

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