Comments on Romanian Church Statistics 

Danut Manastireanu 

1. The percentage of the Romanian population identified as Christian in 2001 (87.85) and 2010 (96.96) is plausible. 
2. Totals for the Lord’s Army (150,000 mem- bers in 2001 and 2010; 300,000 affiliates in 2001 and 2010) are highly subjective. The movement is divided and dwindling. 
3.  Emigration is the best explanation for the drop in 2001-2010 totals for Byzantine Catholics (from 167,665 to 106,587 members and from 280,000 to 178,000 affiliates) and Reformed (from 550,000 to 451,299 mem- bers from 725,000 to 695,000 affiliates). 
4.  Whereas for 2001 Operation World gives fig- ures of 150,000 members and 250,000 affili- ates for Romanian Pentecostals, my estimates for 1998 are 300,000 members and 500,000 affiliates (members plus adherents). 
5.  Most Gypsy Evangelicals are already in- cluded in totals for the various Evangelical Protestant denominations. 
6.  My 1998 estimates for Christian Brethren of 50,000 members and 150,000 members plus adherents is very close to the Operation World figures of 55,657 members and 150,000 affiliates. However, Operation World does not note the existence of a separate Brethren community, the Tudorists, also known today as the Evangelical Church in Romania, whose members and affiliates totaled some 40,000 in 1998.
7.  Is the New Apostolic Church a Christian denomination? Danut Manastireanu, World Vision Romania