Religion in Romania

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Romania is a secular state, thus having no national religion. The majority of the country's citizens are, however, members of the Romanian Orthodox Church, with 86.7% of the country's population identifying as Orthodox in the 2002 census. Other important religions include the Roman Catholicism (4.7%), Protestantism (3.7%), Pentecostal denominations (1.5%) and the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church (0.9%). Romania also has a small but historically significant Muslim minority, concentrated in Dobrogea, who are mostly of Turkish ethnicity and number 67,500 people. Based on the 2002 census data, there are also approximately 6,000 Jews and 2,300 people who are of no religion and/or atheist.

Contents 1 Romanian Orthodoxism 2 Roman Catholicism 3 Legal status 4 Notes

[edit] Romanian Orthodoxism

Main article: Romanian Orthodox Church

The Romanian Orthodox Church is the largest religious denomination in Romania, numbering 18,817,975 according to the 2002 census, or 86.7% of the population. The rate of church attendance is, however, significantly lower, with only 26% of Romanians attending church once a week or more according to a 2006 poll.^[1]

[edit] Roman Catholicism

Main article: Roman Catholicism in Romania

According to the 2002 census, there are 1,028,401 Roman Catholics in Romania, making up 4.7% of the population. The majority of Roman Catholics are of Hungarian ethnicity, even though there are also more than 300,000 ethnic Romanian Catholics, mainly in Transylvania.

[edit] Legal status

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Barometrul de Opinie Publică - Mai 2006, Open Society Foundation