Unlike most European countries, the Catholic Church in Romania comprises in a single national episcopal conference both Latin and two Eastern Catholic churches (one of which being nation-specific): * A Latin hierarchy ** one

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with four suffragan sees ** an exempt non-metropolitan archdiocese * Two Eastern Catholic rite-specific particular churches ''sui iuris'': ** The

Romanian Greek Catholic Church The Romanian Greek Catholic Church or Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic ( la, Ecclesia Graeco-Catholica Romaniae; ro, Biserica Română Unită cu Roma, Greco-Catolică), sometimes called, in reference to its Byzantine Rite, the ...

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Byzantine Rite The Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite or the Rite of Constantinople, identifies the wide range of cultural, liturgical, and canonical practices that developed in the Eastern Christianity, Eastern Christian Church of Constantinople. Th ...

(Greek Catholic) in Rumanian language, comprising the Ecclesiastical province of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia, whose Metropolitan Archbishop is the Major Archbishop (almost Patriarch) of the whole rite-specific particular church ''sui iuris'', and all its four Romanian Suffragan Eparchies (dioceses). ** An Armenian Catholic Ordinariate for Eastern Catholic faithful. There is also an Apostolic nunciature as papal diplomatic representation (embassy-level) in the national capital

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, into which is also vested the Apostolic nunciature to neighbouring

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(Ex-Soviet, ethnic Romanians).

Current Dioceses

Latin Hierarchy

Ecclesiastical Province of Bucharest

* Metropolitan

Archdiocese of Bucharest The Archdiocese of Bucharest (Romanian: ''Arhiepiscopia Bucureștilor'') is an episcopal see of the Romanian Orthodox Church with jurisdiction over the counties of Ilfov and Prahova. The current head of the Archdiocese is Patriarch Daniel, as A ...

** Diocese of Iași ** Diocese of Oradea Mare ** Diocese of Satu Mare ** Diocese of Timișoara

Exempt

* Archdiocese of Alba Iulia (''sui iuris'', not Metropolitan)

''Eastern Catholic''

''Armenian Catholic Church''

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Armenian Rite The Armenian Rite () is an independent liturgy used by both the Armenian Apostolic and Armenian Catholic Churches. Liturgy The liturgy is patterned after the directives of Saint Gregory the Illuminator, first official head and patron saint ...

in Armenian language) * ''

Armenian Catholic Ordinariate of Romania The Ordinariate for Armenian Catholics of Romania ( ro, Ordinariatul Armeano-Catolic), based in Gherla, is an ordinariate for Eastern Catholic faithful that is part of the Armenian Catholic Church, itself under the authority of the Pope. It serves ...

, with seat at Gherla''

''Romanian (Greek) Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Făgăraş and Alba Iulia''

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, Romanian language Byzantine (Greek) Rite) *''(Metropolitan) Major Archdiocese of Făgăraș și Alba Iulia'' **'' Eparchy of Bucharest'' **'' Eparchy of Cluj-Gherla'' **'' Eparchy of Lugoj'' **'' Eparchy of Maramureș'' **''

Eparchy of Oradea Mare The Greek Catholic diocese of Oradea Mare is the Eparchy of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church for the area of Oradea. It was founded in 1777, followers of the Greek Rite having been up to that time under the jurisdiction of the Latin bishop ...

Defunct jurisdictions

Titular see

Only the Latin Titular archbishopric (non-Metropolitan)

Constantia in Scythia {{refimprove, date=February 2017 :''See Constantia for namesakes The Diocese of Constantia (in Scythia) is a former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see. The diocese once had its episcopal see in present Constanța (capital of the Rom ...

Other defunct Latin jurisdictions

(Excluding merely renamed/promoted predecessors of current jurisdictions) * Latin Diocese of Argeș * Diocese of Bacău * Diocese of Milcovia *

Diocese of Moldovița The Diocese of Moldovița was a relatively short-lived (i.e. 1418–1550) Latin bishopric in the Bukovina region of present-day northeastern Romania (more specifically in Suceava County). History In 1418, a Latin Diocese of Moldovita / Moldaw ...

''Eastern Catholic defunct jurisdictions''

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Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church The Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church ( rue, Русиньска ґрекокатолицька церьков; la, Ecclesia Graeco-Catholica Ruthenica), also known in the United States simply as the Byzantine Catholic Church, is an Eastern Cath ...

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Sources and external links

GCatholic.org

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Catholic dioceses