Orthodox Old Calendar Church of Romania
The Romanian Orthodox Old Calendar Church (Romanian Biserica Ortodoxă de Stil Vechi din România ) is an Old Calendar Orthodox Church in Romania . It is not recognized as canonical by most of the Orthodox churches .
Structures
The church is organized in 11 dioceses . Its head is metropolitan and archbishop, and his residence is the Transfiguration Monastery in Slătioara. The church has 13 monasteries and 130 churches. About 2-3,000,000 believers belong to it.
The Orthodox Old Calendar Church is in communion with the Church of the True Christians of Greece (Chrysostomos Synod) and the Bulgarian Orthodox Old Calendar Church .
It follows the Julian calendar , the liturgy is in the Byzantine rite .
history
In 1924 the Romanian Orthodox Church introduced the New Julian calendar in place of the previous Julian calendar. A movement of believers arose who opposed this reform. This was soon officially registered as the organization of the followers of the Orthodox Old Calendar Church of Romania . Their leader was the arch monk Glicherie.
Dozens of new churches have been built since 1930. In 1936, on the initiative of Patriarch Miron of the Romanian Orthodox Church, extensive repression against the Old Calendar Church began. Many priests, monks and believers were arrested and all churches were expropriated.
In 1941 Glicherie was able to create a new center of the church in Slătioara after years underground. In 1999 he was canonized by the Old Calendar Church.
In 2003 the church took the official name of the Orthodox Old Calendar Church of Romania .
See also
Web links
- Homepage (Romanian)