Editing Transylvania (section)

== Religion ==
Transylvania has a very rich and unique religious history. Since the [[Protestant Reformation]], different Christian denominations have coexisted in this religious melting pot, including [[Romanian Orthodox]], other [[Eastern Orthodox]], [[Catholic Church in Romania|Latin Catholic]] and [[Romanian Greek Catholic Church|Romanian Greek Catholic]], [[Lutheran]], [[Reformed tradition|Reformed]], and [[Unitarianism|Unitarian]] branches. [[Christianity]] is the largest religion, but other faiths also are present, including [[Jews]] and [[Muslims]]. Under the [[Habsburgs]], Transylvania served as a place for "religious undesirables". People who arrived in Transylvania included those that did not conform to the [[Catholic Church]] and were sent here forcibly, as well as many religious refugees. Transylvania has a long history of religious tolerance, ensured by its religious pluralism.

Transylvania has also been (and still is) a center for Christian denominations other than [[Eastern Orthodoxy]], the form of Christianity that most Romanians currently follow. As such, there are significant numbers of inhabitants of Transylvania that follow [[Roman Catholicism in Romania|Latin Catholicism]] and [[Romanian Greek Catholic Church|Greek Catholicism]], and [[Protestantism in Romania|Protestantism]]. Even though before 1948, the population of Transylvania split between Eastern Orthodox, Greek Catholic and other forms of Christianity, during the Communist Period the Orthodox Church was much more favored by the state which has led to Eastern Orthodoxy being the religion of the majority of Transylvanians.<ref name="poperamet">Earl A. Pope, "Protestantism in Romania", in Sabrina Petra Ramet (ed.), ''Protestantism and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia: The Communist and Postcommunist Eras'', [[Duke University Press]], Durham, 1992, p.158-160. {{ISBN|0-8223-1241-7}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20171215160455/https://cnewa.org/source-images/Roberson-eastcath-statistics/eastcatholic-stat17.pdf The Eastern Catholic Churches 2017]. cnewa.org</ref> However, among the Hungarian and German minorities only a small part are Eastern Orthodox. The main two religions of the Hungarian minority are Reformed (Calvinism) and Roman Catholicism;<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nyugatijelen.com/allaspont/reszleges_kozossegi_radiografia_1.php|title=Részleges közösségi radiográfia|language=ro|work=Nyugati Jelen|access-date=19 March 2023|date=19 January 2023|author=Chirmiciu András|archive-date=26 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326032617/https://www.nyugatijelen.com/allaspont/reszleges_kozossegi_radiografia_1.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> among Germans the main religions are Roman Catholicism (slightly over half of [[Germans in Romania]]), followed by Lutheranism and Eastern Orthodox.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.recensamantromania.ro/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Date-provizorii-RPL_cu-anexe_30122022.pdf|title=Primele date provizorii pentru Recensământul Populației și Locuințelor, runda 2021|language=ro|website=recensamantromania.ro|access-date=19 March 2023}}</ref> There are also [[Pentecostal Union of Romania|Pentecostals]] and [[Union of Christian Baptist Churches in Romania|Baptists]], particularly in Banat and Crișana. [[Babeș-Bolyai University]], located in [[Cluj-Napoca]] is the only university in [[Europe]] that has four faculties of [[theology]] (Orthodox, Reformed, Roman Catholic, and Greek Catholic).<ref>{{cite book |url=http://admitere.ubbcluj.ro/ro/info/brosuri/ |title=Ghidul studentului din Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai |page=5 |website=Admitere.ubbcluj.ro |access-date=2016-05-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160426170927/http://admitere.ubbcluj.ro/ro/info/brosuri |archive-date=2016-04-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! || colspan=2 | 1930 ||colspan=2 | 2011
|-
! Denomination 
| Number || Percent 
| Number || Percent 
|-
| [[Eastern Orthodoxy]]
| 1,933,589 || 34.85
| 4,478,532 || 65.96
|-
| [[Romanian Greek Catholic Church|Greek Catholicism]]
| 1,385,017 || 24.96
| 142,862 || 2.10
|-
| [[Catholic Church in Romania|Latin Catholicism]]
| 946,100 || 17.05
| 632,948 || 9.32
|-
| [[Mainline Protestantism]]
| 1,038,464 || 18.72
| 675,107 || 9.34
|-
| [[Evangelical Protestantism]]
| 37,061 || 0.66
| 339,472 || 4.70
|}
There are also small denominations like [[Adventism]], [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] and more.

'''<u>Others</u>'''
* Nowadays, there is a very small number of Muslims ([[Islam]]) and Jews ([[Judaism]]), but back in 1930, with 191,877 inhabitants, Jews represented 3.46% of Transylvania's population.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.etnosfera.ro/pdf/2009/2/04.pdf|title=Situatia demografica a cultelor dupa 1918|access-date=2018-04-16|archive-date=2017-12-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215064621/http://www.etnosfera.ro/pdf/2009/2/04.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Atheists, agnostics and unaffiliated account for 0.27% of Transylvania's population.
''Data refers to extended Transylvania (with [[Banat]], [[Crișana]] and [[Maramureș]]).''<ref>{{cite web| url = http://dspace.bcucluj.ro/bitstream/123456789/64159/1/BCUCLUJ_FP_186593_1937-1938.pdf| title = Anuarul statistic al Romaniei, 1937 si 1938}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.recensamantromania.ro/rezultate-2/ |title=Populația stabilă după religie – județe, municipii, orașe, comune |work=Institutul Național de Statistică}}</ref>