The <b>'''Old Calendar Orthodox Church of Romania</b> ''' or <b>'''True Orthodox Church of Romania</b> ''' is a resistance, [[Old Calendarist ]] Synod, which broke off from the [[Church of Romania]], holding that the latter is in error.

In 1924, Metropolitan Miron of the [[Church of Romania]] introduced the [[New Calendar]] or [[Gregorian Calendar]] for use in the Church. Although most Romanians accepted the change, the skete of the Protection of the Theotokos in northern Moldavia rejected it. In 1925, led by Hieromonk Glicherie (now canonized as Saint [[Glicherie of Romania]], the Confessor), some of the bretheren left the skete to start an Old Calendarist group. When, in 1926 and 1929, Metropolitan Miron ordered [[Pascha]] to be celebrated according to the Papal Gregorian [[Paschalion]], a large number of faithful, including Russian émigrés, left the [[Church of Romania]] and joined the Old Calendarists. By 1936, the Old Calendarists numbered about 40 parishes.

*Metropolitan Vlasie, President of the Synod of the True Orthodox Church of Romania<BR>*Bishop Demosten of Neamts<BR>*Bishop Ghenadie of Bacau<BR>*Bishop Pahomie of Vrancea<BR>*Bishop Teodosie of Brasov<BR>*Bishop Sofronie of Suceava<BR>*Bishop Iosif of Botosani<BR>*Bishop Flavian of Ilfov<BR> 

Headquartered in the Monastery of the Transfiguration, Slatioara, Moldavia, the Synod has 130 parishes, 13 monasteries, 21 sketes, and publishes two periodicals, <I>''Traditia Ortodoxa</I> '' and ''Catacombele Ortodoxiei''. 160 [[priests]] (including 115 married priests and 45 [[hieromonks]]) and 26 [[deacons]] serve the Synod's faithfullfaithful. 290 [[monks]] and 510 [[nuns]] dwell in the monasteries.

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