The law on the secularization of monastic estates in Romania was proposed in December 1863 by Domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza and approved by the Parliament of Romania. By its terms, the Romanian United
1860 engraving showing the Cotroceni Monastery and its estate in Bucharest
The Romanian Orthodox Church, or Romanian Patriarchate, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox Christian churches, and is one of the nine patriarchat
National Cathedral of Romania in Bucharest
Patriarch Miron Cristea as Prime-Minister in 1938
Metropolitan Visarion Puiu and King Carol II of Romania