Metropolis of Chișinău and All Moldova
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The Metropolis of Chișinău and All Moldova (Romanian: Mitropolia Chișinăului și a întregii Moldove; Russian: Кишинёвско-Молда́вская митропо́лия, romanized: Kishinyovsko-Moldavskaya mitropoliya), also referred to as the Moldovan Orthodox Church (Romanian: Biserica Ortodoxă din Moldova; Russian: Правосла́вная це́рковь Молдо́вы, romanized: Pravoslavnaya tserkov' Moldovy), is an autonomous metropolitanate under the Russian Orthodox Church. Its canonical territory is the Republic of Moldova.
Metropolis of Chișinău and All Moldova | |
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Location | |
Territory | Moldova |
Headquarters | Chișinău, Moldova |
Statistics | |
Population - Total | 1,286 communities |
Information | |
Denomination | Eastern Orthodox |
Sui iuris church | Moscow Patriarchate (Autonomous Metropolis) |
Established | 1813/1944 |
Language | Romanian, Slavonic, Gagauz[1] |
Music | Byzantine and Russian |
Current leadership | |
Bishop | Metropolitan Vladimir |
Website | |
www.mitropolia.md |
The Metropolis of Chișinău and All Moldova is the largest church in the country, and one of the two main Orthodox churches in Moldova (beside the Metropolis of Bessarabia, an autonomous metropolitanate of the Romanian Orthodox Church). In the 2004 census in Moldova 3,158,015 people or 95.5% of those declaring a religion claimed to be Eastern Orthodox Christians of all rites.
The head of the Moldovan Orthodox Church is Metropolitan Vladimir (Cantarean), who is a permanent member of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.