Please see below a new week-in-pictures photo feature from the Orthodox world.
Doxologia.ro has posted never-before-seen photos of churches in Iași. Photo: Doxologia / Fr. Silviu CluciThe icon of Holy Hierarch. Nicolae at Stănești Parish in Lunca, Botoșani county, Romania. Photo: Lori GiaBucharest’s Mavrogheni Church, where the sculptor Constantin Brâncuși was a singer during his studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuThe canopy with the relics of Holy Hierarch John Maximovici in the San Francisco Cathedral, California. Photo: Protosyncellus Sofronie BobaruThe Church of Old “St. George” on the feast day of the Holy Great-martyr Theodore Tiron, February 17, 2023. Photo: Mariana StancăA commemoration service for all Romanian psalters and hymnographers was officiated at Bucharest’s Old “Bărbătescu” Parish on February 17, 2023. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuMemorial Saturday at the Great Church of Gura Râului, Sibiu county, Romania. Photo: Iuliana CîmpanArchimandrite Gherontie Ciupe, elected auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Deva and Hunedoara, was ordained at the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God in Deva, Romania, on February 18, 2023. Photo: Diocese of Deva and HunedoaraThe National Cathedral seen from the Patriarchal Cathedral. Photo: Fr. Serghie PârăuMosaic of the Church of Santa Maria dell’Ammiraglio, Palermo, Italy. Photo: Twitter / Fr. Ioan TofanA young man holds a Byzantine portrait of Father Gherasim Iscu, martyr of the communist prisons, in Targu Ocna, Romania, on February 18, 2023. Photo: Facebook / Sorin DediuMemorial Saturday at the Church of Han, near Câmpina, Romania, on February 18. Photo: Afsar AmirabadThe commemoration of the confessing martyrs of the Targu Ocna communist prison on February 18, 2023. Photo: Archdiocese of Roman and BacăuIcon of Our Lady of Sweet Kissing, the patron saint of the Berislăvești Monastery in Valcea county, Romania. Photo: Hieromonk SiluanCommunal meal on the Sunday of the Dreadful Judgement (of the Meatleaving) at Bucharest’s “St. Constantine and Helen – Oborul Nou” Parish on February 19, 2023. Photo: FacebookThe Metropolitan of Cluj, Maramureș and Sălaj among the faithful of the Orthodox Parish of Sebiș, in Bistrița-Năsăud county, Romania, on February 19, 2023. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj / Darius EchimA moment from the Holy Mass at the Timișeni-Șag Monastery Paraclesis on February 19, 2023. Photo: Adrian AnitasHis Grace Visarion, Bishop of Tulcea, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Photo: Diocese of TulceaMid-February snapshot from Crasna Monastery, in Prahova county, Romania. Photo: Facebook / Ștefan Chirobocea
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