A community-edited reference article on the Romanian churches' position under communist rule from 1948, covering the December 1948 decree outlawing the Greek Catholic Church, the confiscation of its roughly 1,725 churches and transfer of its properties, the refusal of the great majority of its 1,800 priests to sign conversion documents, and the Securitate's role in enforcing the ban.
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Reliability TierCommunity-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for its numeric summary of confiscated properties and clergy response, figures the article draws from published Romanian church-history scholarship. Citation
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Orthodox_Church_in_Communist_Romania 1 Sources
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- Religious Events, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
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