Romanian Greek Catholic Church

The Romanian Greek Catholic Church or Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic is a sui iuris Eastern Catholic Church, in full union with the Roman Catholic Church. It has the rank of a Major Archiepiscopal Church and it uses the Byzantine liturgical ceremony inside the Romanian language. Cardinal Lucian Mure?an, Archbishop of Fagara? and Alba Iulia, has served as the pinnacle of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church given that 1994. On December 16, 2005, because the Romanian Church United with Rome, the Greek-Catholic church was extended to the rank of a Major Archiepiscopal Church with the aid of Pope Benedict XVI, with Lucian Mure?an turning into its first fundamental archbishop. Mure?an was sooner or later created a cardinal, at the Consistory of February 18, 2012.

Besides the Archeparchy of F?g?ra? and Alba Iulia, there are five greater Greek-Catholic eparchies in Romania Eparchy of Oradea Mare, Eparchy of Cluj-Gherla, Eparchy of Lugoj, Eparchy of Maramure?, and Eparchy of Saint Basil the Great of Bucharest, in addition to one eparchy foreign places, the Romanian Catholic Eparchy of St George's in Canton, answering without delay to the Major Archbishop and the Holy See, in the United States of America and Canada.