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1. Ferdinand I was the son of Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern-
Sigmaringen, and Infanta Antónia of Portugal (1845–1913),
daughter of Queen Maria II of Portugal and Prince Ferdinand of
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, heir to the Slovakian-originated
Hungarian magnates of Kohary on his mother's side.[1]
Following the renunciations, first of his father in 1880 and then
of his elder brother Prince Wilhelm of Hohenzollern-
Sigmaringen in 1886, young Ferdinand became the heir-
presumptive to the throne of his childless uncle, King Carol I of
Romania, who would reign until his death in October 1914.[2] In
1889, the Romanian parliament recognized Ferdinand as a prince
of Romania. The Romanian government did not require his
conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy from Catholicism, as was the
common practice prior to this date, thus allowing him to
continue with his born creed, but it was required that his children
be raised Orthodox, the state religion of Romania. For agreeing
to this, Ferdinand was excommunicated from the Catholic
Church, although this was later lifted.
Coordonating teacher:
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