Constitution of the Consultative Council of the Religious Cults of Romania

14/4/2011

On 14 April 2011, the representatives of the following religious cults of Romania met in Conventus room of the Patriarchal Palace under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel:

– Romanian Orthodox Church;
– Orthodox Serb Diocese of Timişoara;
– Roman-Catholic Church;
– Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic;
– Archdiocese of the Armenian Church;
– Russian Orthodox Archdiocese of Old Rite of Romania;
– Reformed Church of Romania;
– A.C. Evangelical Church of Romania;
– Lutheran Evangelical Church of Romania;
– Unitarian Church of Transylvania;
– Christian Pentecostal Cult – Romanian Apostolic Church of God;
– Union of the Conferences of the Adventist Church of the 7th Day;
– Jewish Communities Federation of Romania – Mosaic Cult;
– Muslim Cult of Romania.

The Christian Baptist Cult – Union of the Christian Baptist Churches of Romania and the Christian Church according to the Gospel of Romania – Union of the Christian Churches according to the Gospel of Romania participated as observers.

The participants agreed, in principle, to constitute the Consultative Council of the Religious Cults of Romania, but the final agreement is to be given by the leading bodies of every religious cult.

The daily agenda included the drafting of the principles of organisation, analysis of the project of Statutes, and formulation of some practical proposals concerning the operation of the Consultative Council of the Religious Cults of Romania.

The representatives of the participant cults established the equal statutes of the member cults, annual presidency of the cults by rotation, and adoption of the decisions by consensus, as general principles of operation.

The Consultative Council of the Religious Cults of Romania is an ethic, social, autonomous, non-political, non-governmental organisation with no legal personality and non-profit.

The major purposes of the Consultative Council of the Religious Cults of Romania are the following: promotion of the faith in God and its importance in the life of the person and of society, defence and promotion of the human being and of his or her dignity, promotion of the respect for the divine creation (man and surrounding nature), adoption of some common positions and attitudes concerning the important issues of society, manifestation of solidarity and co-operation among the religious cults in the spiritual, cultural, educational and social fields, prevention and negotiating in order to solve the inter-confessional and inter-religious disagreements, as well as rejection and discouragement of any form of extremism etc.

Secretariat of the Consultative Council of the Religious Cults

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