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Basilica News Agency Director: We hope our motto is not just “The Good to Know”, but also “The Good to be done”

The Romanian Patriarchate’s Basilica News Agency marked its 15th anniversary on Friday. On this occasion, the agency’s director, Aurelian Iftimiu, was invited to “The Light of Knowledge” show on Radio Trinitas. He spoke with the producer Narcisa Urucu about the Church’s communication in the era of new media technologies, the need to provide the general…

Jun 17, 2023basilica.ro

Midfeast of Pentecost; Apostle Simon the Zealot (Fish allowed)

Saint Simon was from Cana in Galilee, and was known to the Lord and His Mother. Tradition says that he was the bridegroom at the wedding where the Savior performed His first miracle. After witnessing the miracle of the water which had been turned into wine, he became a zealous follower of Christ. For this…

May 10, 2023basilica.ro

Patriarch Daniel sends a congratulatory message on the election of the new Archbishop of Cyprus

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel sent a congratulatory message on the election of the new Archbishop of Cyprus. The Patriarch of Romania wished him “blessed years in the service of the Orthodox people of Cyprus”. Full text: Bucharest, 29 December 2022 His Beatitude GEORGE III, Archbishop elect of Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus Your Beatitude, On…

Dec 29, 2022basilica.ro

Suceava: 500th anniversary of monastery church built by son of St. Stephen the Great

On Sunday, November 6, faithful and hierarchs of the Romanian Orthodox Church visited the monastery in Suceava to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the church’s consecration, the Archdiocese of Suceava reports. In 1514, Bogdan III, son of St. Stephen the Great, began the construction of the Church of the Great Martyr George at St. John…

Nov 9, 2022basilica.ro

Romanian Patriarchate’s Basilica Media Centre celebrates 15th anniversary

The Basilica Media Center of the Romanian Patriarchate celebrates its 15th anniversary on October 27, on the feast of St Demetrius the New. This celebration always finds Church journalists at work. Television and radio bring religious services live to the people, while Basilica.ro and Lumina Newspaper report the events, while the Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate…

Oct 27, 2022basilica.ro

Romania’s Via Transilvanica long-distance trail to be inaugurated in October

Via Transilvanica, the long-distance trail crossing Romania from Putna to Drobeta-Turnu Severin, is almost completed and will be officially inaugurated this fall. The event marking the grand opening will take place in Alba Iulia on October 8. “Via Transilvanica will be fully completed after four and a half years of hard work, and the grand…

Aug 8, 2022basilica.ro

Basilica.ro Director visits Poland: Orthodox Youth is very organized. His Beatitude Sawa is warm, firm, and encouraging

The visit of the Director of Basilica.ro in Poland at the invitation of OrthPhoto ended on Sunday, August 15, 2021. On Saturday, Mr Aurelian Nicolae Iftimiu had a meeting with His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland. The director of the Basilica News Agency was welcomed by His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa at the…

Aug 15, 2021basilica.ro

Five year anniversary of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church

Five years ago, on June 16, began the writing of ‘a new chapter in the history of the Church’ as Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew called the meeting of the Local Orthodox Churches that took place on the island of Crete. The Council took place from June 16 to June 26, 2016, at the Orthodox Academy of…

Jun 16, 2021basilica.ro

Great and Holy Wednesday (Matins); Apostles Aristarchus, Pudens and Trophimus of the Seventy; Martyr Crescens

On Great and Holy Wednesday, the hymns of the Bridegroom Service remind us of the sinful woman who poured precious ointment on Christ’s head at Simon the leper’s house (Mt. 26:7). The disciples complained about the wasteful extravagance, for the myrrh could have been sold and the money given to the poor. On this same…

Apr 15, 2020basilica.ro

His Beatitude Sawa celebrates his 40th episcopal consecration anniversary

His Beatitude Sawa (Hrycuniak), Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland celebrates Sunday his 40th episcopal consecration anniversary. His Beatitude Sawa is the current head of the autocephalous Church of Poland. He is the eighth hierarch to head the Polish church since it was granted autocephaly by the Patriarch of Constantinople in 1924. As…

Nov 25, 2019basilica.ro

HB Theodoros II celebrates his 65th birthday

HB Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, celebrates his 65th birthday. His Beatitude (born Nicholas Horeftakis), was born in Crete in 25 November 1954, where he completed his schooling. He is a graduate of the Rizarios Ecclesiastical School of Athens and holds a degree from the Theological Faculty of the Aristotelian…

Nov 25, 2019basilica.ro