page_title: Romanian Orthodox Church
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Romanian Orthodox Church / History
caption_attribution_description: Română: Distibuţia ortodocşilor în România conform recensământului din 1930. Harta reprezintă frontierele actuale, precum şi limitele administrative actuale: judeţe, comune, oraşe. În majoritatea localităţilor din spaţiul extracarpatic ortodocşii erau majoritari. Excepţie fac unele localităţi din Bucovina (populate de romano-catolici, greco-catolici, staroveri, mozaici şi lutherani), Moldova (romano-catolici, mozaici şi staroveri) şi Dobrogea (musulmani, staroveri, romano-catolici, lutherani)
context_page_description: The Romanian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Orthodox Church in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox Christian Churches, one of the nine Patriarchates in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Since 1925, the Church's Primate bears the title of Patriarch. Its jurisdiction covers the territories of Romania and Moldova, with additional dioceses for Romanians living in nearby Serbia and Hungary, as well as for diaspora communities in Central and Western Europe, North America and Oceania.
  Currently it is the only autocephalous Church within Eastern Orthodoxy to have a Romance language for liturgical use. The majority of Romania's population, as well as some 720,000 Moldovans, belong to the Romanian Orthodox Church.
  Members of the Romanian Orthodox Church sometimes refer to Orthodox Christian doctrine as Dreapta credință.
caption: Orthodox believers in Romania according to the 1930 census (data available only for Transylvania, Banat, Crișana, Maramureș and Bucharest)
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