Iulian Dumitraşcu

Patriarch Theophilos III celebrates his name day

His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, celebrates Friday his name day: Martyr Theophilus of the Holy 40 Martyrs of Sebaste. The Patriarchate of Jerusalem keeps the Unrevised Julian calendar (by old style). Therefore, 40 Holy Martyrs of Sebaste will be celebrated on Thursday, March 22, 2018. His Beatitude…

Mar 9, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew celebrates his 78th Birthday

His Holiness Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, celebrates Wednesday his 78th Birthday. The Patriarch was born on February 29, 1940, and in the non-leap years, he is used to celebrating his birthday on February 28. At the invitation of HB Romanian Patriarch Daniel, His Holiness will attend the consecration of the Romanian Orthodox Church’s National…

Feb 28, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

40 Years since the episcopal consecration of HB Arch. Chrysostomos II of Cyprus

His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus, celebrates on 26 February 2018 his 40th anniversary of episcopal consecration. He was born in Tala village, Paphos. At the age of 10 he lost his father and two years later, after finishing his elementary education, he joined the monastery of Ayios Neophytos in Paphos.…

Feb 26, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

HB Theodoros II celebrates his name day

HB Theodoros II celebrates Saturday his name day. Great Martyr Theodore the Tyro is the spiritual protector of the Pope and the Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa. His Beatitude (born Nicholas Horeftakis), was born in Crete in 1954, where he completed his schooling. He is a graduate of the Rizarios Ecclesiastical School of Athens…

Feb 17, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

12 Years since the enthronement of HB Hieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece

His Beatitude Hieronymos II celebrates on 16 February his 12th anniversary as Archbishop of Athens and All Greece. His Beatitude Hieronymos II born Ioannis Liapis in Oinofyta, Boeotia, in 1938, is a graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy and of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Athens and holds degrees in Archaeology, Byzantine…

Feb 16, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

HB Patriarch Theophilos III celebrates his 13th anniversary of episcopal consecration

His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III celebrates on 14 February 2018 his 13th anniversary of episcopal consecration. His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine (known in the world as Elias Giannopoulos, his parents, Panagiotes-Triseugenia) was born in Gargalianes of the County of Triphylia-Messinia, in 1952.  He arrived in Jerusalem in…

Feb 14, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

Ruined Albanian churches could be tourist magnet if repaired: experts

Many old Albanian Orthodox churches and the art they contain lie in ruins due to decades of neglect but they could attract tourists if they are repaired, according to experts. A man lights candles at The Orthodox church of Saint Mary in Labova Kryqit, Gjirokaster, Albania January 24, 2018. The government and the Orthodox church…

Feb 8, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

HB Arch. Hieronymos II of Athens celebrates a decade since his election as head of the Greek Orthodox Church

His Beatitude Hieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece celebrates on 7 February 2018 a decade since his election as head of the Greek Orthodox Church. His Beatitude Hieronymos II born Ioannis Liapis in Oinofyta, Boeotia, in 1938, is a graduate of the Faculty of Philosophy and of the Faculty of Theology of the…

Feb 7, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

Bulgarian Orthodox Church elects Bishop Daniil as new Metropolitan of Vidin

By a vote of 11 to two on February 4, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, elected Bishop Daniil as the new Metropolitan of Vidin, informs sofiaglobe.com. Daniil, who since 2010 has been vicar to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Metropolitan of the United States, Canada, and Australia Yosif, will be ex officio a…

Feb 5, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

His Beatitude Kirill celebrates his 9th anniversary as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia

His Beatitude Patriarch Kirill celebrates on 1 February 2018 his 9th enthronement anniversary as Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church. His Beatitude Kirill (secular name Vladimir M. Gundyaev) was born on 20 November 1946, in Leningrad. After graduation from school, he entered the Leningrad Seminary and later the Leningrad Theological Academy, from which he graduated cum laude in…

Feb 1, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

His Beatitude Met. Rastislav of the Czech and Slovak Church celebrates his 40th Birthday

His Beatitude Rastislav, the Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands and Slovakia, celebrates on 25 January 2018 his 40th Birthday. Rastislav or Rostislav, also known as St. Rastislav, was the second known ruler of Moravia (846–870). Upon his initiative two brothers, Cyril and Methodius sent by the Byzantine Emperor Michael III in…

Jan 25, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu