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ªtefan cel Mare (Stephen the Great) was a voivod (prince) of Moldova (Moldavia)
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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CULTURE / Religion and Languages
Religion
The Republic of Moldova mainly comprises representatives of two worldwide religions: Christianity and Judaism.
The first represented by about 1800 communities, the latter by 7 communities. The majority adheres to the
Russian Orthodox Church, which incorporates almost 95% of orthodox Christians out of the entire population
of the country. They dispose of 1034 churches, 36 monasteries and 7 hermitages with approximately 5000
priests, deacons, curates, etc.
The head of the Orthodox Church of Moldova (Moldova’s Metropolitan) is His Grace Vladimir, the Metropolitan
of Chisinau and all Moldova. The church is subdivided into 4 dioceses: Chisinau, Edinet and Briceni, Cahul
and Lapusna, Dubasari and Tiraspol. An office of locum tenens operates in the city of Balti.
The religious personnel is mainly trained within the Chisinau Theological Academy, Theological Seminary
(“Noul Neamt Monastery”, in Chitcani), the Spiritual Lyceum for girls (Suruceni Monastery), the Spiritual
Lyceum for boys (“Nasterea Domnului” Monastery, in Zabriceni).
The Constitution of the Republic of Moldova guarantees the religious freedom of its citizens (art. 31).
Each citizen has the right to share any religion, individually or in group, to spread this faith, to
exercise their cult either in a private or public, as long as it does not contradict the Constitution
and the law in force.
Languages
According to the constitution of the Republic of Moldova, the state language in Moldova is Moldavian,
functioning on the Latin alphabet basis. As a state language, it is used in all political, economic,
social and cultural domains, and is the inter-ethnic language of communication in Moldova.
The state language acts as the working language in the activity of all state bodies, state
administration and public authorities. The translation into Russian is assured.
Russian along with Moldavian is used as a communication language among different nations.
In order to meet the national-cultural needs of ethnic groups inhabiting the territory of Moldova,
the functioning of other languages, such as Ukrainian, Russian, Bulgarian, Jewish, Gypsy, etc. is guaranteed.
The most frequent spoken foreign languages are English, French, German and Italian.
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