Basic Information

The Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America grew out of the split in the Romanian Church in America following World War II. It rejected ties to the church headquarters in Bucharest which it saw as dominated by the Communist government. The church has a close relationship with the Orthodox Church in America.

Snapshot

	1990	2000	Growth/Decline
Congregations	43	56	+13 (30.2%)
Adherents	--	17,201	(%)

Notes

Snapshot data are from Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 and Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc.

History data were taken from the National Council of Churches' Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches [More information on history data sources]