The relationship between Church and State in Romania

The relationship between Church and State is the collaboration between the spiritual and political unity that are united by the common social life of the citizens of the State and faithful of the Church. With the instauration of the communist regime, the relations between State and Church begin to change, especially since 1965, when school is separated from the church and the state through various adopted measures begins to dominate the Church. Although the Constitution guaranteed religious freedom, the communist regime brought a policy of reducing the role of religion and implicitly of supporting and even enforcing atheism. After the fall of the communist regime in 1989, the Church began to gradually regain its function and role and religious education began to be present again in society. Since 1991, the Constitution has set the legal framework for religious activity, as well as the principles of the relationship between State and Church.