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Patriarchprimate=[[Teoctist (Arapasu) of Romania|Patriarch Teoctist]]|
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independence= 1865 |
recognition= 1885 by [[Church of Constantinople|Constantinople]] |
hq=Bucharest, Romania|
territory=Romania|
calendar=[[Gregorian calendar]]|
population=18,817,975 [http://www.cnewa.org/ecc-bodypg.aspx?eccpageID=19]|
website=[http://www.patriarhia.ro/ Patriarchat Church of Romania]
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The '''Church of Romania''' is one of the [[patriarchateautocephaly|autocephalous]] Orthodox churches. The majority of Romanians in Romania by a very wide margin (about 20 million, or 86.7% of the population, according to the 2002 census data) belong to it. In terms of population, the Church of Romania is second in size only to the [[Church of Russia]].
In the Romanian language it is most often known as '''Ortodoxie''', but is also sometimes known as '''Dreapta credinţă''' ("right/correct belief"—compare to Greek ''ορθοδοξια'', "straight/correct belief"). Orthodox believers are also known as '''ortodocşi''', '''dreptcredincioşi''' or '''dreptmăritori creştini'''.
==Organization==
There are five [[metropolis|metropolia]] and ten [[archdiocese]]s in Romania, and more than twelve thousand 12,000 [[priest]]s and [[deacon]]s. Almost 400 [[monasticism|monasteries]] exist inside the country for some 3500 monks [[monk]]s and 5000 nuns[[nun]]s. Three diasporan metropolia and two diasporan dioceses function outside Romania proper. As of 2004, there are, inside Romania, fifteen theological universities where more than ten thousand 10,000 students (some of them from Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Serbia) currently study for a doctoral degree. More than 14,500 churches exist in Romania for the Orthodox faithful; under Communism these churches began to be referred to as ''lăcaşe de cult'', the generic name for a building in which religious activities were held. As of 2002, almost 1,000 1000 of these were either in the process of being built or rebuilt.
==Famous theologians==
[[Image:Dumitru_Staniloae.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Dumitru Staniloae|Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae]]]]
Father [[Dumitru Staniloae|Dumitru Stăniloae]] (1903-1993) was one of the greatest Orthodox theologians of the 20th century. His ''magnum opus'', aside from his ''Duhovnicesc'' ("deepest spiritual"), is the comprehensive collection, compiled over 45 years, known as the ''Romanian [[Philokalia]]''.
==List of Patriarchs==
