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	Romanian Orthodox Church - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The abolition of this church slavery was in 1844 in Moldavia and 1847 in Wallachia.
		The leadership of the Church had a good relations with the Communist regime, but there were many members of the clergy which dissented: until 1963 as many as 2,500 individual priests and monks were arrested and further 2,000 monks were forced to give up the monastic life.
		Romanians in the Republic of Moldova belonging to the Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia (rom.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Romanian_Orthodox_Church (2540 words)

	Right of the Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia to its own succession in title
		Subsequent to the registration of the Church, the procedure for the registration of the Church’s sub-divisions was initiated.
		It was informed that the Government had merely registered the amendment to the statute of the Moldovan Metropolitan Church in accordance with the Moldovan Constitution.
		Subsequently the Committee was informed that, on 20 October 2003, the Court of Appeal dismissed the applicant Church’s complaint for lack of competence, but that the Supreme Court, allowed its appeal on 12 November 2003, quashing the said decision of the Court of Appeal.
	assembly.coe.int /Documents/WorkingDocs/Doc04/EDOC10042.htm (1174 words)

	Eastern Orthodox Church organization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Eastern Orthodox Church is a communion comprising the collective body of fourteen or fifteen separate autocephalous hierarchical churches that recognize each other as "canonical" Orthodox Christian churches (there is an essentially political disagreement about whether the number is 14 or 15).
		At the beginning of the 11th century, the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church was ruled by five patriarchs: the bishops of Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem.
		These Churches are resistant to what they perceive as the errors of Modernism and Ecumenism in mainstream Orthodoxy, but they do not consider themselves schismatic; they do refrain from concelebration of the Divine Liturgy with the mainline Orthodox Churches while they remain fully within the canonical boundaries of the Church, i.e.
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	Romanian Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Romanian Orthodox Church (Biserica Ortodoxă Română in Romanian) is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches.
		There are five Metropolitanates and ten archbishoprics in Romania, and more than twelve thousand priests and deacons, servant fathers of ancient altars from parishes, monasteries and social centres.
		Prea Fericitul (His Beatitude) Patriarch Teoctist, Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Ungro-Vlachia (Muntenia or Wallachia and Dobrogea or Dobrudja) and Patriarch of All of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Locum Tenens of Caesarea in Cappadocia
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	Church of Romania - OrthodoxWiki
		The Church of Romania is one of the autocephalous Orthodox churches.
		Some Romanian Orthodox regard their church to be the first national, first attested, and first apostolic church in Europe and view the Apostle Andrew as the church's founder.
		The Romanian Orthodox Church is one of only three autocephalous or autonomous Orthodox churches using a Romance language as a principal liturgical language.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Church_of_Romania (2181 words)

	Religion and Law Research Consortium
		The Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia shall co-operate with the authorities of the State in the sphere of culture, education and social assistance.
		The Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia is recognised by all the Orthodox patriarchates with the exception of the patriarchate of Moscow.
		It noted that from the point of view of canon law the Metropolitan Church of Moldova was part of the Russian Orthodox Church and therefore dependent on the patriarchate of Moscow, whereas the Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia was attached to the Romanian Orthodox Church and therefore dependent on the patriarchate of Bucharest.
	www.religlaw.org /template.php?id=720 (12211 words)

	BUCHAREST DAILY NEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The issue of the Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia was discussed during a meeting in Russia between the head of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Teoctist, and Russian Patriarch Alexei II.
		A delegation of the Romanian Orthodox Church, led by Teoctist, was in Russia the past few days to discuss several issues, including the situation of the Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia and ways of increasing religion's importance in international policy.
		The Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia was reactivated on September 14, 1992, when it broke away from the Republic of Moldova's church and became subordinated to the Romanian Orthodox Patriarchy.
	www.daily-news.ro /article_detail.php?idarticle=28479 (220 words)

	Talk:Church of Romania - OrthodoxWiki
		History: Until 1812 the Church in Bessarabia (roughly the territory of the Republic of Moldova) was part of the Orthodox Church in the principality of Moldova (there was no such thing as a Moldovlachian Exarchate as Moldavia and Walalchia were until 1859 two separate statal formations).
		In 1940 after the occupation by the Soviet authorities the Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia was suppressed and the Orthodoxy tolerated by the communist authorities was under the jurisdiction of Moscow Patriarchate.
		The status of the Metropolitan Church mentions the fact that it is the succesor of the Metropolitan Church that existed between 1918 and 1944.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Talk:Church_of_Romania (2318 words)

	MOLDOVA: Government Fails in Bessarabian Church Appeal.
		Metropolitan Petru Paduraru, leader of the Bessarabian Church, which is under the jurisdiction of the Romanian Orthodox Patriarchate, welcomed the Church's vindication by the court.
		The Bessarabian Church lodged the case with the Strasbourg court - to which Moldova is subject as a member of the Council of Europe - in 1998.
		The Moldovan Supreme Court had ruled in December 1997 that recognition of the Church could only be resolved by the state-recognised Orthodox Church subject to the Moscow Patriarchate, from which the Bessarabian Church had broken away, and that any interference by the Moldovan authorities would only exacerbate the conflict.
	www.starlightsite.co.uk /keston/kns/2002/020410MO-01.htm (696 words)

	BCPS - St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church, Tampa and St. Petersburg Florida, East Orthodox Christianity
		In the Catholic Church of the Latin Rite, this had been accidently achieved when Latin, in which the liturgy was celebrated, ceased to be understood by the people; in the Orthodox churches the altar area was surrounded by pillars with curtains in between.
		The Assyrian Church of the East is also often included among this group, although it does not belong to the Oriental Orthodox Communion, and indeed, adheres to the doctrine of 'Nestorianism', directly opposed to the doctrine of the Oriental Orthodox.
		The Antiochian Orthodox Church, The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, and the Holy Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church of America (formerly connected with the Vicar Bishop of the (Western) Orthodox Church of France-ECOF), all have Western Rite parishes.
	www.bluecoast.org /nonprofit/eastorthodoxy.html (9517 words)

	Moldova
		The religious traditions of the Orthodox Church are entwined with the culture and patrimony of the country.
		Individual churches or branches of officially registered religious organizations are not obliged to register with local authorities; however, the local branch must register locally if it wants to make legal transactions as a legal body, including the ability to receive donations in its name.
		The Bessarabian Orthodox Church was formed in 1992 when a number of priests broke away from the Moldovan Orthodox Church, which is subordinate to the Moscow Patriarchate.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2003/24423.htm (3265 words)

	JUDGMENT IN THE CASE OF METROPOLITAN CHURCH OF BESSARABIA AND OTHERS v. MOLDOVA
		That court held that the question of recognition of the applicant church could be resolved only by the Metropolitan Church of Moldova, which had been recognised by the State and from which the applicant church had split, and that any intervention in the conflict by the Moldovan authorities could only make matters worse.
		Relying on Article 9, the applicants complained of the Moldovan State’s refusal to recognise the Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia as a church and alleged that under the relevant domestic legislation a religious denomination could not be active inside Moldovan territory unless it had first been recognised by the authorities.
		The Court held that in taking the view that the applicant church was not a new denomination and in making its recognition depend on the will of a recognised ecclesiastical authority, the Metropolitan Church of Moldova, the Government had failed to discharge their duty of neutrality and impartiality.
	www.echr.coe.int /Eng/Press/2001/Dec/MetropolitanChurchofBessarabiajudepress.htm (1264 words)

	Moldova Azi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		According to them, MCB has been officially recognized as the spiritual, historic and canonic successor to the Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia that had acted on the Moldovan territory till 1944.
		The Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia applied for justice to the European Court of Human Rights, claiming that the State must return to MCB the property confiscated decades ago by the Soviet power - temples, various real estate, lands, lakes, cult items, a printing house, etc.
		The decision to revive the Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia was taken by the Romanian Orthodox Church in 1992.
	www.azi.md /print/31747/En (201 words)

	Patriarchs Alexy II and Teoctist discuss problem of metropolitan church of Bessarabia
		The problem of the Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia was discussed at a meeting with Russian Patriarch Alexy II, which is regarded as an important step forward settling disputes related to subordination of this church, Patriarch Teoctist said on Wednesday evening while coming back to Romania, according to Mediafax.
		The Bessarabian Church was reactivated on September 14, 1992 by a diocesan assembly of Romanian-speaking clerks and lay persons, getting apart from the Autocephalous Metropolitan Church of Moldova and subordinating itself to the Romanian Orthodox Patriarchate.
		Commissions of metropolitans were created at the level of the two patriarchates and they held several rounds of meetings in a move to settle the conflict, but failed.
	social.moldova.org /stiri/eng/13903 (586 words)

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		The pastor of the Tiraspol church told Keston on 3 December that the head of the local administration in the village of Krasnoe issued the verbal threat "because the congregation is not registered as a religious organisation".
		The Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia is an Orthodox Association of more than 100 Orthodox churches in Moldova with a strong Romanian identity.
		The Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia applied to the government of Moldova to withdraw from the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church, and to come under the jurisdiction of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
	www.hrwf.net /html/moldova2001.html (527 words)

	Moldova
		The leader of the church welcomed the ruling, but was sceptical as to whether the government would in fact register the Church.
		The Moldovan Supreme Court had ruled in December 1997 that recognition of the Church could only be resolved by the state- recognised Orthodox Church subject to the Moscow Patriarchate, from which the Bessarabian Church had broken away, and that any interference by the Moldovan authorities would only exacerbate the conflict.
		Metropolitan Petru pointed out how difficult the disappearance has been for Cubreacov's wife Natalya and their daughter and son.
	jmm.aaa.net.au /articles/211.htm (1474 words)

	METROPOLITAN CHURCH OF BESSARABIA AND OTHERS v. MOLDOVA - 45701/99 [2001] ECHR 860 (13 December 2001)
		The Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia shall cooperate with the authorities of the State in the sphere of culture, education and social assistance.
		On 16 October 1992 the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs informed the government that it was favourable to the recognition of the Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia.
		Similarly, it was not for the State to favour one Church rather than another by means of recognition, or to censor the name of a Church solely on the ground that it referred to a closed chapter of history.
	www.worldlii.org /eu/cases/ECHR/2001/860.html (12418 words)

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		The Moldovan Supreme Court ruled on 2 February that a September 2001 decision by the Moldovan government declaring the Metropolitan Church of Moldova the lawful successor to the former Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia was illegal, Flux reported.
		The court thus heeded the appeal of the Bucharest-subordinated Bessarabian Metropolitan Church against the government's decision, which would have transferred the properties of the former Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia to the rival Moscow-subordinated Metropolitan Church of Moldova.
		The Bessarabian Metropolitan Church has announced its intention to seek the restitution of all the former properties of its Romania-era predecessor.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2004/02/4-SEE/see-030204.asp (1296 words)

	ECHR : Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia and Others v. Moldova Publication : 2001-XII
		ECHR : Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia and Others v.
		The case concerns the Moldovan authorities' refusal to recognise the applicant (Orthodox Christian) church.
		The applicants alleged that under the relevant domestic legislation a religious denomination could not be active inside Moldovan territory unless it had first been recognised by the authorities.
	sim.law.uu.nl /SIM/CaseLaw/hof.nsf/0/75f3ea9f6eb9d125c1256b22002f59fb?OpenDocument (128 words)

	United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - Summary Record - Republic of Moldova
		Turning to the question about freedom of religion, he distributed copies of the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia and others v.
		In the course of the dialogue, the members of the Committee had voiced those concerns and they would find a place in the Committee's concluding observations, which would be available at the end of the session.
		Among the many questions remaining unanswered were the registration system for churches, the legislation for converting the broadcasting system to an independent authority, the actual position of the national human rights commission, the appointment of judges, and conditions for the registration of political parties.
	www.unhchr.ch /tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/CCPR.C.SR.2030.En?Opendocument (3061 words)

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		Some Romanian Orthodox people regard their church to be the first national, first attested, and first apostolic (church built by the Apostles themselves) in Europe and view St Andrew as the Church's founder.
		There are reports that several old Greek Catholic churches were demolished while under the administration of the Orthodox Church
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