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ABSTRACT One of the features of interwar Romania was a quantitative and qualitative increase in sports. During this epoch, Romania followed a Western pattern, despite the significant differences between it and other European countries, for instance, in the case of its rural and illiterate population. In this context, this article aims to demonstrate how Romanian religious representatives reacted to the development of sport in Romania in the 1930s, when the Orthodox and Greek-Catholic churches were the principal Christian denominations. Moreover, the counter-reactions to religious criticism of sport in Romania will also be examined.