Orthodox Church of Romania
| Romanian Orthodox Church (Romanian Patriarchate) |
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| Founder |
(as Metropolis of Romania) Miron Cristea, Ferdinand I |
| Independence | 1872 |
| Recognition | 25 April 1885 |
| Primate | Daniel, Patriarch of All Romania |
| Headquarters | Dealul Mitropoliei, Bucharest |
| Territory |
 Romania Moldova
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| Possessions |
 Serbia HungaryWestern and Southern Europe; Germany, Central and Northern Europe; Americas; Australia and New Zealand |
| Language | Romanian |
| Members | 16,367,267 in Romania; 720,000 in Moldova 11,203 in United States |
| Bishops | 53 |
| Priests | 15,068 |
| Parishes | 15,717 |
| Monastics | 2,810 (men), 4,795 (women) |
| Monasteries | 359 |
| Website | http://www.patriarhia.ro/ |
(as Metropolis of Romania)
Nifon Rusailă, Carol I
The Romanian Orthodox Church (Romanian: Biserica Ortodoxă Română) is an Orthodox Church in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox Christian Churches and ranked seventh in order of precedence. 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 self-governing Church within Orthodoxy to have a Romance language for its principal and native tongue. The majority of Romania's population (16,307,004, or 86.5% of those for whom data were available, according to the 2011 census data), as well as some 720,000 Moldovans, belong to the Romanian Orthodox Church. The Romanian Orthodox Church is the second-largest in size behind the Russian Orthodox Church.
Members of the Romanian Orthodox Church sometimes refer to Orthodox Christian doctrine as Dreapta credință ("right/correct belief" or "true faith"; compare to Greek ὀρθὴ δόξα, "straight/correct belief").
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