Editing Romania (section)

===Religion===
{{Main|Religion in Romania|Romanian Orthodox Church}}
[[File:Catedrala Mântuirii Neamului (Martie 2024).jpg|thumb|The People's Salvation Cathedral in Bucharest is the It is the [[List of tallest Eastern Orthodox church buildings|tallest]] and [[List of largest church buildings|largest Eastern Orthodox church building]] by both volume and [[List of largest Eastern Orthodox church buildings|area]],{{efn|[[Saint Isaac's Cathedral]] in [[Saint Petersburg]] although larger in gross area (7,000 m<sup>2</sup> the building including colonnades and 7,600 m<sup>2</sup> with stairway), has a smaller area excluding colonnades (5,000 m<sup>2</sup>). Since 1931 it has been converted into a [[Russian Museum|Russian state museum]].<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.geocasehistoriesjournal.org/pub/article/download/IJGCH_4_2_3/pdf_22 |title= St. Isaac Cathedral (St. Petersburg, Russia): A Case History [pg.3 - total area of 7,600 m<sup>2</sup> and total weight including the basement of 3155 MN (321.7 thousand tons)] |journal=International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories  |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=113–133 |last1= Anna |first1= Shidlovskaya |last2= Jean-Louis |first2= Briaud |last3=Mehdi |first3=Mohammadrajabi |publisher=[[International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering]] (ISSMGE) |date=2017-11-03 |doi=10.4417/IJGCH-04-02-03}}</ref>|name=Isaac.Cathedral}} in the world<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 May 2020 |title=The People's Salvation Cathedral is the tallest and largest Orthodox church in the world by volume |work=Marcegaglia Buildtech |url=https://www.marcegagliabuildtech.com/news/# |access-date=2020-08-30 }}</ref>]]
Romania is a [[secular state]] and has no [[state religion]]. An overwhelming majority of the population identify themselves as Christians. At the country's 2021 census,<ref name="Census2021-Religion"/> 73.60%&nbsp;of respondents identified as [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christians]], with 73.42%&nbsp;belonging to the [[Romanian Orthodox Church]]. Other denominations include [[Religion in Romania#Protestantism|Protestantism]]&nbsp;(6.22%), [[Roman Catholicism in Romania|Roman Catholicism]]&nbsp;(3.89%), and [[Romanian Greek Catholic Church|Greek Catholicism]]&nbsp;(0.61%). From the remaining population 128,291 people belong to other Christian denominations or have another religion, which includes 58,347 [[Islam in Romania|Muslims]] (mostly of Turkish and Tatar ethnicity) and 2,708 [[History of the Jews in Romania|Jewish]] (Jews once constituted 4%&nbsp;of the Romanian population—728,115 persons in the 1930 census). Additionally, 71,430 people are [[Irreligion|irreligious]], 57,229 are [[Atheism|atheist]], 25,485 are [[Agnosticism|agnostic]], and 2,658,165 people chose to not declare their religion.<ref name="Census2021-Religion"/>

The Romanian Orthodox Church is an [[Autocephaly|autocephalous]] [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] in [[full communion]] with other Orthodox churches, with a [[Patriarch of All Romania|Patriarch]] as its leader. It is the third-largest Eastern Orthodox Church in the world,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pewforum.org/2017/11/08/orthodox-christianitys-geographic-center-remains-in-central-and-eastern-europe/|title=Orthodox Christianity in the 21st Century|date=8 November 2017|website=pewforum.org|access-date=25 March 2020|archive-date=25 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180225000348/http://www.pewforum.org/2017/11/08/orthodox-christianitys-geographic-center-remains-in-central-and-eastern-europe/|url-status=live}}</ref> and unlike other Orthodox churches, it functions within a [[Latin]] culture and uses a [[Romance languages|Romance]] liturgical language.<ref>[http://www.cnewa.org/default.aspx?ID=3643&pagetypeID=4&sitecode=HQ&pageno=1 Profiles of the Eastern Churches] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229100346/http://www.cnewa.org/default.aspx?ID=3643&pagetypeID=4&sitecode=HQ&pageno=1 |date=29 December 2016 }} at cnewa.org</ref> Its canonical jurisdiction covers the territories of Romania and Moldova.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/jus/humanrights/HUMR5508/v14/teaching-material/case-of-metropolitan-church-of-bessarabia.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230001948/http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/jus/humanrights/HUMR5508/v14/teaching-material/case-of-metropolitan-church-of-bessarabia.pdf|url-status=dead|title=European Court of Human Rights – Case of Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia|archive-date=30 December 2016}}</ref> Romania has the [[Eastern Orthodoxy by country|world's third-largest Eastern Orthodox population]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Religious Belief and National Belonging in Central and Eastern Europe|url=http://www.pewforum.org/2017/05/10/religious-belief-and-national-belonging-in-central-and-eastern-europe/|website=Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project|date=10 May 2017|access-date=21 November 2020|archive-date=10 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510190714/http://www.pewforum.org/2017/05/10/religious-belief-and-national-belonging-in-central-and-eastern-europe/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Orthodox Christianity in the 21st Century|url=https://www.pewforum.org/2017/11/08/orthodox-christianity-in-the-21st-century/|website=Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project|date=10 November 2017|access-date=21 November 2020|archive-date=25 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125010533/https://www.pewforum.org/2017/11/08/orthodox-christianity-in-the-21st-century/|url-status=live}}</ref>