Abstract: A model of co-operation in the State-Church relationship in Romania, based on the constitutional principle of religions’ autonomy, has permitted the development of a legislative plan that gives the possibility for certain specific features in the relationship between the employees of the religious institutions and the religions (with a series of exceptions in the general labour law). On the other side, the Romanian model of co-operation has maintained, as rules, certain specific rights and obligations of the employees of the religious institutions compared to other categories of citizens, with no form of persecution or privilege, simply as a form to secure the maintenance of particularities of the religions’ life. The study lists all the legal assets that, by the way of exception, refer to the employees of the religious institutions and, when necessary, it provides with brief historical excerpts to facilitate the understanding of evolution in certain aspects of the ecclesiastical law system.

Keywords: State-Church relationship, canonical law, labour law, clerics’ remuneration