parishes—in 2006, there were 110 Unitarian ministers and 141 places of worship in Romania. According to the 2002 census, there were 6,179 Jews, 23,105 people who are of no religion and/or atheist, and 11,734 who refused to answer. On 27 December 2006, a new Law on Religion was approved under which religious denominations can only receive official registration if they have at least 20,000 members, or about 0.1% of Romania's total population. The Romanian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Orthodox church. It is in full communion with other Orthodox churches, and is ranked seventh in order of precedence. The Primate of the church has the title of Patriarch. Its jurisdiction covers the territory of Romania, with dioceses for Romanians living in nearby Moldova, Serbia and Hungary, as well as diaspora communities in Central and Western Europe, North America and Oceania.
It is the only Orthodox church using a Romance language. The majority of people in Romania (18,817,975, or 86.8% of the population, according to the 2002 census data) belong to it, as well as some 720,000 Moldovans. The Romanian Orthodox Church is the second-largest in size after the Russian Orthodox Church.
The most significant holidays of the Romanian Orthodox Church are:
• Baptism of Jesus (6 January);
• Resurrection of Jesus (has no fixed date), associated with Easter;
• Ascension of Jesus (has no fixed date, celebrated 40 days after Easter);
• Dormition of the Theotokos (15 August), preceded by two weeks of fasting;
• Nativity of the Theotokos (8 September);
• Nativity of Jesus (25 December), associated with Christmas.
Urbanization
Main article: List of cities and towns in Romania
See also: Metropolitan Areas in Romania
In the years following the Revolution has been a massive migration
