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Revision as of 13:03, December 12, 2024
, 13:03, December 12, 2024→From Restoration to the Present Day
Currently, this Church has 3,240 parochial communities, 78 monasteries, 755 Sunday schools, 12 educational institutions, 2,721 churches (with 306 more under construction), 16 bishops, 1,976 priests, 590 monks, 729 nuns, and 1,298 seminarians.
Currently, this Church has 3,240 parochial communities, 78 monasteries, 755 Sunday schools, 12 educational institutions, 2,721 churches (with 306 more under construction), 16 bishops, 1,976 priests, 590 monks, 729 nuns, and 1,298 seminarians.
{{cquote|Pope Francis on Sunday beatified seven Greco-Catholic bishops jailed and tortured during the Communist era on the final day of his visit to Romania.
“The new blessed ones suffered and sacrificed their lives, opposing a system of totalitarian and coercive ideology,” the pontiff told some 60,000 worshippers attending mass on a “Field of Liberty” in the small central town of Blaj.
“These shepherds, martyrs of faith, garnered for and left the Romanian people a precious heritage which we can sum up in two words: freedom and mercy,” added Francis, while praising the “diversity of religious expression” in mainly Orthodox Romania.
Regime officials detained the beatified bishops overnight on October 28, 1948, accusing them of “high treason” after they refused to convert to Orthodoxy.
The Greek-Catholic Church was outlawed under 1948-89 Communist rule.
– Buried in secret –<ref name=PopeFrancis>{{cite web|url=https://www.breitbart.com/news/pope-beatifies-seven-communist-era-bishops-in-romania/|Pope beatifies seven Communist-era bishops in Romania|date=2 June 2019|publisher=Breitbart}}</ref>}}
=== Calendar reform ===
=== Calendar reform ===