Religion and Population Make up
Prior to the annexation of Transylvania the population in the main comprised of Slav tribes who practised a Christian faith brought to them by the Bulgarians. They were members of the Rumanian Orthodox Church , a sister church to the Russian ,Serbian ,Bulgarian and Greek Orthodox Churches . With Transylvania annexed in 1918, came some 1,500,000 Eastern Rite Catholics ,ie those in Communion with Rome ,and aprox 1,400,000 Roman Catholics mostly of Hungarian ancestry . The Communist regime was willing to "work in" with the Orthodox Patriarch Justinian , who encouraged communism and loyalty to its regime . Not long after the Patriarchs installation in 1948, the five bishops of the Eastern Rites church and those of the Roman Catholic Church were imprisoned and a forced attempt was made to merge all three churches within the Rumanian Orthodox Church . There are minorities of Lutherans and Reformed churches mostly in the western part of the country .
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