At the end of the Middle Ages, the Romanian Orthodox Church was structured as independent metropolitanates of the principalities, organized on the basis of territorial ethnicity. In 1359, the “Metropolitanate of Hungaro-Wallachia” was recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople with its see in Curtea de Argeș (after 1517, Târgoviște; after 1668, Bucharest); and in 1401, the “Metropolitanate of Moldavia” with its see …