Romanian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Roma, 1.4% Ukrainians and 0.5% belonged to other groups.^[3] The denomination has 1,185 church buildings and some 340 pastors.^[4] It originates in the 19th century and is divided into six local conferences, standing for and named after some of the country's main historical regions: Banat, Northern Transylvania, Southern Transylvania, Moldavia, Muntenia and Oltenia

ethnic German Adventists who had recently moved from the Russian Empire to the Kingdom of Romania into a church. Eventually these Adventists settled in Viile Noi, a neighbourhood of Constanța.^[5]

Romanian Army officer), who then attended the Adventist training school in Möckern, Germany. By the time Paulini and Demetrescu returned to Romania, the government had expelled Ginter, but the newly trained Romanian Adventists were ready to take his place. Conferences organized beginning in 1907 and the Romanian Union Conference formed in 1919 with about 2,000 members. Starting in 1908 Romanian Adventists had their publications printed by the Hamburg press in Germany, but in 1920 they established the Adventist Publishing House in Bucharest. Three years later the Romanian Union Training School opened in Bucharest but moved to Diciosânmartin in 1926 and then Brașov in 1931.^[5] The Conference registered as a religious association in 1928,^[6] but during the period of Greater Romania, it functioned in semi-legality, sometimes permitted to function and at other times banned.^[4] In 1930 there were 7,700 (or 16,100^[4]) members, 65 ministers and 290 houses of prayer.^[6]

Romania during World War II).^[5] At the end of that year the Antonescu regime closed all Adventist churches and imprisoned church leaders, but meetings continued in secret. The school (as well as the churches) opened again in 1944 and beginning in 1950 operated under the name Romanian Theological Seminary. Meanwhile, the publishing house closed in 1942, opening again in 1944 until taken over by the government three years later. In 1946, Adventists found homes for 600 orphans affected by that year's famine in Moldavia.^[5][6] Having gained provisional recognition that year,^[4] the church was one of the fourteen faiths to gain state recognition in the 1948 Law on Cults.^[7]

collapse of the Communist regime, a new publishing house opened in 1990 and the Romanian Adventist College of Health in 1991. Despite the wartime and Communist-era difficulties it experienced, Adventism had grown faster in Romania by this time than elsewhere in Europe,^[5] reaching some 70,000 members and over 500 church buildings by the early 1990s.^[6]

Adventist Youth Society. Its radio station, Vocea Speranței ("The Voice of Hope"), broadcasts from Bucharest, Brașov, Constanța and Timișoara. Its publishing house produces the monthly magazine Curierul Adventist ("The Adventist Courier") and the religious-cultural bimonthly Semnele Timpului ("Signs of the Times"). Every three months, it emits some 55,000 copies of Bible study guides for adults, youth and children. It also prints theological works, informational pamphlets and school lessons.^[4]