Romanian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Romanian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Uniunea de Conferințe a Bisericii Adventiste de Ziua a Șaptea din România
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Type	Western Christianity
Classification	Protestant
Orientation	Adventist
Scripture	Bible
Theology	Seventh-day Adventist
Polity	Presbyterian/Episcopal
President	Aurel Neațu
Subdivision of the	Seventh-day Adventist Church
Conferences	6
Associations	Inter-European Division of Seventh-day Adventists
Region	Romania
Language	Romanian, Hungarian
Headquarters	Str. Erou Iancu Nicolae nr. 38-38 A, Voluntari, Ilfov County
Founder	Michał Belina Czechowski
Origin	1870
Recognition	1948
Congregations	1,269
Members	62,215
Pastors	c. 340
Places of worship	1,185
Secondary schools	3
Tertiary institutions	1
Other name(s)	Seventh-day Adventist Church of Romania
Publications	Curierul Adventist Semnele Timpului
Official website	adventist.ro

The Romanian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (Romanian: Uniunea de Conferințe a Bisericii Adventiste de Ziua a Șaptea din România) is Romania's seventh-largest religious body, part of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church. At the 2011 census, 85,902 Romanians declared themselves to be Seventh-Day Adventists.^[1] The church put its own membership at 62,215 in 2020.^[2] Ethnically, in 2002, they were 83.5% Romanians, 9.7% Hungarians, 4.9% Roma, 1.4% Ukrainians and 0.5% belonged to other groups.^[3] The denomination has 1,185 church buildings and some 340 pastors.^[4] It originates in the 19th century and is divided into six local conferences, standing for and named after some of the country's main historical regions: Banat, Northern Transylvania, Southern Transylvania, Moldavia, Muntenia and Oltenia.