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Do not fill this in! ===Religion=== {{Main|Religion in Romania|Romanian Orthodox Church}} {{bar box |float = right |titlebar = #ddd |title = Religion in Romania (2021 Census)<ref name="Census2021-Religion"/> |left1 = Religion |right1 = Percentage |bars = {{bar percent|[[Romanian Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox]]|blue|73.86}} {{bar percent|[[Catholic Church in Romania|Roman Catholic]]|red|3.89}} {{bar percent|[[Calvinism|Reformed]]|yellow|2.60}} {{bar percent|[[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]]|purple|2.12}} {{bar percent|[[Romanian Greek Catholic Church|Greek Catholic]]|orange|0.61}} {{bar percent|[[Baptists|Baptist]]|violet|0.54}} {{bar percent|[[Adventism]]|cyan|0.35}} {{bar percent|[[Islam|Muslims]]|green|0.31}} {{bar percent|[[Religion in Romania|Others]]|olive|1.13}} {{bar percent|[[Atheism]] and [[Agnosticism]]|grey|0.43}} {{bar percent|[[Irreligion|Non-Religious]]|black|0.37}} {{bar percent|[[Religion in Romania|Undeclared Religion, or indirectly counted (data missing)]]|olive|13.94}} {{bar percent|[[Religion in Romania|Refused to declare]]|olive|9}} {{bar percent|[[Religion in Romania|Were not even asked this question]]|olive|4.94}}<ref name="Contributors 2022 Kivu"/> }} Romania is a [[secular state]] and has no [[state religion]]. An overwhelming majority of the population identify themselves as Christians. At the country's 2021 census,<ref name="Census2021-Religion"/> 73.86% of respondents identified as [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christians]], with 73.42% belonging to the [[Romanian Orthodox Church]]. Other denominations include [[Religion in Romania#Protestantism|Protestantism]] (6.22%), [[Roman Catholicism in Romania|Roman Catholicism]] (3.89%), and [[Romanian Greek Catholic Church|Greek Catholicism]] (0.61%). From the remaining population 128,291 people belong to other Christian denominations or have another religion, which includes 58,335 [[Islam in Romania|Muslims]] (mostly of Turkish and Tatar ethnicity) and 2,707 [[History of the Jews in Romania|Jewish]] (Jews once constituted 4% of the Romanian population—728,115 persons in the 1930 census). Additionally, 71,417 people are [[Irreligion|irreligious]], 57,205 are [[Atheism|atheist]], 25,485 are [[Agnosticism|agnostic]], and 2,895,539 people chose to not declare their religion.<ref name="Census2021-Religion"/> The Romanian Orthodox Church is an [[Autocephaly|autocephalous]] [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] in [[full communion]] with other Orthodox churches, with a [[Patriarch of All Romania|Patriarch]] as its leader. It is the third-largest Eastern Orthodox Church in the world,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pewforum.org/2017/11/08/orthodox-christianitys-geographic-center-remains-in-central-and-eastern-europe/|title=Orthodox Christianity in the 21st Century|date=8 November 2017|website=pewforum.org|access-date=25 March 2020}}</ref> and unlike other Orthodox churches, it functions within a [[Latin]] culture and uses a [[Romance languages|Romance]] liturgical language.<ref>[http://www.cnewa.org/default.aspx?ID=3643&pagetypeID=4&sitecode=HQ&pageno=1 Profiles of the Eastern Churches] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229100346/http://www.cnewa.org/default.aspx?ID=3643&pagetypeID=4&sitecode=HQ&pageno=1 |date=29 December 2016 }} at cnewa.org</ref> Its canonical jurisdiction covers the territories of Romania and Moldova.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/jus/humanrights/HUMR5508/v14/teaching-material/case-of-metropolitan-church-of-bessarabia.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230001948/http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/jus/humanrights/HUMR5508/v14/teaching-material/case-of-metropolitan-church-of-bessarabia.pdf|url-status=dead|title=European Court of Human Rights – Case of Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia|archive-date=30 December 2016}}</ref> Romania has the [[Eastern Orthodoxy by country|world's third-largest Eastern Orthodox population]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Religious Belief and National Belonging in Central and Eastern Europe|url=http://www.pewforum.org/2017/05/10/religious-belief-and-national-belonging-in-central-and-eastern-europe/|website=Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project|date=10 May 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Orthodox Christianity in the 21st Century|url=https://www.pewforum.org/2017/11/08/orthodox-christianity-in-the-21st-century/|website=Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project|date=10 November 2017}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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