4. •Position: Central Europe
•Neighbours: Hungary, R. Moldavia,
Ukrain, Serbia, Bulgaria, Black Sea
•Surface: 237.500 km2
•Relief : 31% mountains , 33% hills,
36% plains, Danube Delta, Black Sea
•Population: 22 millions
•Language: Romanian
•Ethnical minorities: 7 %
Hungarian, 2% Germans, …
Russians, Serbians…
5. IMPORTANT MOMENTS IN THE
HISTORY OF ROMANIA
DACIA
106 – CONQUEST OF DACIA BY TRAIAN – ROMAN PROVINCE
1600 THE FIRST UNION OF THE HISTORICAL PROVINCES: TRANSILVANIA,
MOLDOVAAND MUNTENIA FORMING ROMANIA
1848 – MOLDOVAAND MUNTENIA CREATE THE ROMANIAN STATE
1918 – TRANSILVANIA PASSES TO ROMANIA
1948 - 1989 – COMMUNIST REGIME
6. December 1989 – the fall of the communist regime
Passage :
• from terror to a liberty wrong understood
• to the increasing of corruption
• to a freedom of traveling abroad
• to an unsecure future
• to a loss of sense of moral and Christian values
• from a “controlled” Church to a free one
7. • Orhodox Church
• Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church
Greek-Catholic Church
• Protestant Church
Reformed Church
Evagelical Church
Lutheran Church
Unitarian Church
• Neo-protestant Church
Baptist Church
Penticostal Church
Adventist Church
• Hebrews
• Muslims
• Jehova Witness
ortodox 70,7%
roman-catholic 10,13%
greek-catholic 2,3%
reformed 9,28%
ortodox 97,37%
roman-catholic 1,29%
greek-catholic 0,04%
ortodox 89,6%
roman-catholic 6,43%
greek-catholic 0,08%Transilvania
Moldova
Muntenia
8. Catholic Church in
Romania
Bizantine riteLatin rite
One Bishops Conference
Apostolic Nuncio in Romania and R. MOldova
E.S. Monsenior Francisco-Javier LOZANO
9. Youth ministry in the Catholic Church:
National level
• National youth meetings
• Pilgrimages
Diocesan level
• Diocesan offices for youth ministry which makes the pastoral plan for youth
• Diocesan youth meetings
• Training of leaders
• Pilgrimages,
• Summer Camps….