The Week in Pictures: June 12 – 18, 2023

A new photo feature capturing the beauty and authenticity of Orthodox life, with snapshots taken between June 12 and 18, 2023.

Patriarch Daniel of Romania received the visit of Abbot Ephraimus of Vatopaidi Monastery on June 12, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro/ Mircea Florescu
Patriarch Daniel offered new antimensions to the churches of the Archdiocese of Bucharest on June 13, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro/ Mircea Florescu
On June 14 we mark World Blood Donor Day, an occasion that brought together volunteers, partners and donors on Bucharest’s Patriarchate Hill. Photo credit: Basilica.ro/ Raluca-Emanuela Ene
His Grace Benedict of Bistrița and Abbot Ephraimus of Vatopaidi with young people at the students’ church in Cluj-Napoca’s University Campus “Hașdeu”. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj / Ionuț Chifa
His Eminence Justin attended the awarding ceremony at the “Nicolae Steinhardt” Orthodox Theological High School in Satu Mare, at the end of school year 2022-2023, on June 15, 2023. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
Two turtledoves on the enclosure wall of Dervent Monastery, Romania. Photo credit: Protosyncellus Sofronie Bobaru
Students of the theological seminary in Bucharest attended the commemoration service for poet Mihai Eminescu at his grave in Bucharest’s Bellu Cemetery on June 15, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro/ Mircea Florescu
Zosin Monastery on All Saints Sunday. Photo credit: Lori Gia
Archimandrite Ephraimus of Vatopaidi at St Stephen the Great’s tomb in Putna Monastery, Romania. Photo credit: Putna Monastery
Drawing and painting on glass: workshop organised on All Saints Sunday at Bucharest’s “Buna Vestire – Bellu” Church. Photo credit: Georgiana Bărîcă
Fr. Ioan Iacob, the spiritual advisor of the “St John Jacob of Khozeva” Monastery in Romania’s Loviște Land, visited Holy Mount Athos. Photo credit: Robert Mustață
The Romanian Orthodox parish community of Sögel, Germany, attended the Divine Liturgy celebrated by hierarchs after the consecration of the altar. Photo credit: Facebook / Bishop Sofian of Brașov
An Estonian child is unseparated from his plush toy at the Sunday Liturgy officiated in Tallinn’s “Saints Symeon and Anna” Church on June 18, 2023. Photo: Basilica.ro / Aurelian Iftimiu
Bucharest’s “St. Nicholas – Hierarch” Church received from the Bishop of South Bessarabia a fragment of the relics of Holy Hierarch Dionysius Erhan, Bishop of Cetatea Albă (Moncastro) – Ismail. Photo credit: Ziarul Lumina / Mircea Popa
The Archbishop of Lower Danube prayed in Father Cleopa’s cell. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Lower Danube
Patriarch Daniel offered icons of the Romanian Saints to the faithful present at the “Saint Mary” Monastery in Urlați, Romania, on June 18, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu

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