Issued to mark the centenary of the Romanian Patriarchate, established in 1925 when the Orthodox Church of Romania was elevated from a metropolitanate to a patriarchate following the country's post-WWI territorial expansion and the unification of regional Orthodox jurisdictions under a single primate. The first Patriarch, Miron Cristea, would later serve simultaneously as Prime Minister during the royal dictatorship of Carol II — an unusual conflation of ecclesiastical and civil authority that remains historically awkward for the institution.
Issued to mark the centenary of the Romanian Patriarchate, established in 1925 when the Orthodox Church of Romania was elevated from a metropolitanate to a patriarchate following the country's post-WWI territorial expansion and the unification of regional Orthodox jurisdictions under a single primate. The first Patriarch, Miron Cristea, would later serve simultaneously as Prime Minister during the royal dictatorship of Carol II — an unusual conflation of ecclesiastical and civil authority that remains historically awkward for the institution.