Consideraþii istorico-geodemografice asupra catolicismului din România în perioada 1930-2002
Historical and geo-demographical discussions on the Catholicism in Romania between 1930-2002

Summary/Abstract: The Catholicism, the second denomination in Romania after the Orthodox confession from the demographic point of view, penetrated the Romanian territory through Transylvania, which once conquered by Hungarians (10th-12th centuries), had been organized as an independent voivodeship inside of the Romanian-Catholic Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Later, under the impulse of the Court of Vienna (the Principality of Transylvania was at the end of the 18th century under Habsburg domination), some of the Romanians from Ardeal adhered to the Roman Church, founding the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic. After the Proclamation of Union at the 1st of December 1918, the Greek-Catholic confession penetrated the Romanian territory from Ardeal to the South and East of the Carpathian Mountains, where they founded local communities. In 1930 the Catholic population from Romania counted 2.661.542 persons (1.234.151 Roman-Catholics, most of them Hungarians and 1.427.391 Greek-Catholics, most of them Romanians). The majority were living in Transylvania (1.414.751 persons), Criºana-Maramureº (562.937) and Banat (355.063). Roman-Catholics lived mostly in Ciuc (81,3%),...

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