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Baptist witnesses did not enter Old Romania until the 20th century, and Orthodox opposition was strong. Nevertheless, a church was organized in Jegalia in 1909. An ethnic Romanian church was formed in Bucharest in 1912 by Constantin Adorian (1882–1954), a Romanian who had previously joined the German Baptist church in Bucharest.
The Romanian Evangelical Alliance (Romanian: Alianța Evanghelică din România) is an evangelical Christian organization that comprises three distinguished denominations that are in full communion with each other: the Baptist Union of Romania, Apostolic Church of God and Christian Evangelical Church of Romania.
Holy Trinity Cathedral, Arad (since 2009) / Church of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (Arad, Romania) - former cathedral (until 2009) Holy Trinity Cathedral in Baia Mare (under construction) Patriarchal Cathedral of Saints Constantine and Helen in Bucharest; Romanian People's Salvation Cathedral in Bucharest (under construction)
The oldest proof that an Orthodox church hierarchy existed among the Romanians north of the river Danube is a papal bull of 1234. In the territories east and south of the Carpathian Mountains, two metropolitan sees subordinate to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople were set up after the foundation of two principalities, Wallachia and Moldavia in the 14th century.
The style is a classicizing neo-Baroque, more akin to 19th-century Western than contemporary Orthodox churches. Over time, the location became less central, so that a new cathedral superseded the old in 2009. [1] The church is listed as a historic monument by Romania's Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs. [2
The Convention of the Hungarian Baptist Churches of Romania (Hungarian: Romániai Magyar Baptista Gyülekezetek Szövetsége; Romanian: Convenţia Bisericilor Creştine Baptiste Maghiare) is a Baptist Christian association of Hungarian churches in Romania within the larger Baptist Union of Romania, united for promoting cooperative ministry.
The church has its origins in the 1920s with Assemblies of God USA missionaries from the United States coming to Romania to spread the Gospel. The Romanian organization was first known as Christians Baptised with the Holy Spirit (Romanian: Creștinii botezați cu Duhul Sfânt) and was recognized as a religious association.
During this time, a significant number of Pentecostal churches identified as Baptist in order to be registered with an official religious organisation as specified by the 1928 Law on Cults. [ 8 ] In 1940 the Antonescu regime imprisoned a large number of Pentecostalists and Baptists, even planning to send them to concentration camps in ...