Romanian Catholics mourn Pope Francis with special mass and prayers Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88, and services in his honour have been held by Catholics worldwide including ...

The local Catholic community, which the Vatican estimates at about 1.4 million people, is split between a primarily immigrant Latin rite population and the Romanian Greek Catholic Church.

In fact, more than half of Romania’s Catholics are ethnically Hungarian and are concentrated in Transylvania, which belonged to Hungary until 1920. But after World War I it passed into Romanian ...

ROME — On Sunday in Blaj, Pope Francis will beatify seven Greek-Catholic bishops of Romania who were killed by the communist regime between 1950 and 1970. These martyrs “have given all to ...

BLAJ - Declaring their beatification Sunday in Romania, Pope Francis said seven martyred Greek-Catholic bishops gave their lives for fidelity to the Church and in defense of the right to freedom ...

Romania was behind the Iron Curtain following World War II, and in 1948 the country's communist government forcibly dissolved the Romanian Catholic Church, which is a Byzantine – or Greek ...

More than 35,000 Roman Catholic pilgrims have congregated at an open-air shrine in Romania's Transylvania region for a centuries-old procession that was canceled last year due to the coronavirus ...

The Romanian Catholic Church was established in 1698, when an Orthodox bishop in Romania entered union with the Bishop of Rome. This decision was confirmed by a synod in 1700, ...

Blaj, Romania • Pope Francis apologized Sunday to the Roma ethnic minority for their history of discrimination in Europe and paid homage to Romanian Catholics persecuted during communist rule as ...

BLAJ, Romania — Pope Francis apologized Sunday to the Roma ethnic minority for the history of discrimination against them in Europe and paid homage to Romanian Catholics persecuted during ...

Pope Francis calls Catholics in Romania to “weave the threads of tomorrow” while at the Marian shrine of Sumuleu Ciuc.