Aurelian Iftimiu

Canonization 2025: Bishop Varlaam reveals first three names

On Anti-Communist Political Prisoners Day, His Grace Bishop Varlaam of Ploiești, general secretary of the Holy Synod, revealed some of the names proposed for canonization in 2025. They are priests and monks persecuted or martyred by the communist regime. In its February 25 meeting, the Holy Synod decided to prepare the canonization of twelve priests…

Mar 10, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Monastery reestablished more than 230 years after being abolished by Habsburg Monarchy

Solca Monastery in the heart of Bukovina was abolished by the Habsburg Monarchy 236 years ago. It then functioned as a parish until this past Sunday, when it was festively reestablished as a monastery. The monastery was re-established at the initiative of His Eminence Archbishop Calinic, who announced his desire just a few days after…

Mar 9, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Assistant Bishop Nichifor of Botosani wants to renew monastic vows through his ordination to the episcopate

Archimandrite Nichifor Horia was ordained to the episcopate and installed as assistant bishop to the Archdiocese of Iasi during the Divine Liturgy celebrated Sunday at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Iasi. The last episcopal ordination hosted by the Iasi cathedral took place thirty years ago. On March 25, 1991, the current Archbishop of Suceava and Radauti…

Mar 8, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Newly-ordained bishop Nestor of Hunedoara asks God for wisdom, humility and obedience in new ministry

Archimandrite Nestor Dinculeana was ordained to the episcopate and installed as assistant bishop to the Diocese of Deva and Hunedoara during a Divine Liturgy held Sunday at Deva. Bishop Nestor of Hunedoara is the Diocese’s first assistant bishop. The new assistant bishop’s ordination was officiated by Metropolitan Laurențiu of Transylvania together with seven other hierarchs…

Mar 8, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Archbishop Irineu: We thank the Most Holy Trinity for the “woman’s mystery”

In a message occasioned by the International Women’s Day 2021, His Eminence Archbishop Irineu of Alba Iulia stressed the major role women have in society and thanked the Most Holy Trinity for God’s work through them. The woman, Archbishop Irineu said, “carries in the nucleus of the family and then in the complex of social…

Mar 8, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Georgian PM condemns “unprecedented attack” against Patriarch Ilia and the Orthodox Church

Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili expressed his admiration for the Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II and disapproved of the slanders brought in the public space against the Georgian Orthodox Church. The Prime Minister of Georgia met on Tuesday, March 2, with His Beatitude Patriarch Ilia at the Patriarchate’s headquarters in Tbilisi a week after being appointed to…

Mar 5, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

In the UK, priests work in IT, construction, engineering, deliveries, warehouses. Father Andrei works in deliveries

Father Andrei Dosoftei, who is a priest in Scotland for Romanians in Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness and surrounding areas, spoke about the clergy’s situation in British society at Romania’s National Television. “The first experience with the Scots was interesting. I remember going to a supermarket with my wife, people looking at me quite reserved; they did…

Mar 5, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Suceava’s priests officiate memorial service to mark one-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 case in Romania

The victims of the coronavirus pandemic were remembered Wednesday at a Chapel of Saint John the New Monastery in Suceava. The Divine Liturgy and a memorial service were officiated by several clerics from the Archdiocese. “We prayed for all those who were killed by this virus, but especially for those in Suceava County which, as…

Mar 5, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian Diocese of Canada wants to establish an online religion school

The Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada announced that it will establish a virtual school for religious education that will promote Orthodox values in the diaspora. The proposal was made during a meeting held on February 22-23, 2021. His Grace Bishop Ioan Casian met with the priests and coordinators of the Sunday School programs within the…

Mar 5, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

New monastery in honour of Romanian heroes to be built at Țiganca, Rep. of Moldova

A new monastery in honour of the Romanian heroes who sacrificed their lives during the Second World War will be built in Țiganca, the Republic of Moldova. Several associations from Romania and the Republic of Moldova launched a fundraising campaign to help the monastery’s construction. “There are places where history was written in blood. There…

Mar 5, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel has 31 years of episcopal ministry and 1 main priority: spiritual life

“The priorities are multiple, but, first of all, we must think about the spiritual life,” is the thought with which Patriarch Daniel came to the leadership of the Romanian Orthodox Church, a moment he already fulfilled 17 years of episcopal ministry. We mark today 31 years since Fr Daniel Ciobotea was ordained to the episcopate…

Mar 4, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu