Iulian Dumitraşcu

His Beatitude Anastasios celebrates his 88th birthday

The current primate of the Albanian Orthodox Church celebrates on 4 November 2017 his 88th birthday. His Beatitude Anastasios Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, was born on November 4, 1929, in Piraeus, Greece. Archbishop Anastasios (Yannoulatos) Professor of History of Religions (1972-92) and Dean of the Theological Faculty of the National and Kapodistrian…

Nov 4, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu

26th enthronement anniversary of His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

On 2 November 2017 His Holiness Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, celebrates the 26th enthronement anniversary. Born Demetrios Archondonis in 1940 on the island of Imvros (today, Gökçeada, Turkey), His All-Holiness Bartholomew was elected in October 1991 as the 270th Archbishop of the 2000-year-old Church founded by St. Andrew, serving as Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and…

Nov 2, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu

Patriarch Ilia proposes building seminary where relics of St. Maximus the Confessor Repose

According to His Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia, he has spent a lot of time contemplating the idea of building a seminary and hotel in Lechkumi in northwestern Georgia, where the relics of St. Maximus the Confessor are kept, to help increase the number of foreign visitors coming to the area to venerate the…

Oct 31, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu

HB Ilia II of Georgia: Let us become worthy of being called the successors of those who accepted their martyrdom in the period of the Atheist regime

Address of His Beatitude Ilia II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, read out by His Grace Vakhtang, Bishop of Nikortsmind, at the Solemn Meeting of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Bucharest, Saturday 28 October 2017: Your  Beatitudes, I wholeheartedly greet you, every participant of the conference and the audience present. The issue which is to…

Oct 30, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu

His Beatitude Met. Rastislav of the Czech and Slovak Church celebrates his name day

His Beatitude Father Rastislav, the Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands and Slovakia, celebrates on 28 October 28 2017 the spiritual protector: Saint Rastislav, the Prince of Moravia. 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…

Oct 28, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu

Confessing the Orthodox Faith through Church Music 

The Address of His Beatitude DANIEL, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, delivered for the finals of the Church Music National Festival-Contest Praise the Lord!, 10th edition, the Patriarchal Palace – Bucharest, Friday, 27 October 2017: The 10th (anniversary) edition of the Church Music National Festival-Contest Praise the Lord! calls us to thank God for…

Oct 27, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu

His Beatitude Met. Rastislav of the Czech and Slovak Church arrives in Bucharest on his first visit to Romania

His Beatitude Rastislav, Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church of Czech Lands and Slovakia, arrived in Romania on Thursday. This is His Beatitude’s first visit to Romania as Head of the Czech and Slovak Church and it takes place during the celebrations marking the feast of Saint Demetrius the New, Protector of Bucharest. The Metropolitan of…

Oct 26, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu

Biography of His Beatitude Rastislav. The youngest among the leaders of the Autocephalous Orthodox Churches

His Beatitude Rastislav, Archbishop of Prešov, Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia participates these days at the Feast of the Saint Demetrius 2017. Metropolitan Rastislav is the youngest of the leaders of the Autocephalous Orthodox Churches. Metropolitan Rastislav (by his secular name Rastislav Gont) was born on the 25 January…

Oct 25, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu

HB Theodoros II celebrates his 13th anniversary as Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa 

HB Theodoros II celebrates Thursday his 13th anniversary as Pope and 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 and holds a degree from the Theological Faculty of the Aristotelian…

Oct 24, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu

Altars dedicated to Sts. Paisios and Porphyrios consecrated in Athens suburb

Two side altars in the Church of the Great Martyr Demetrios of Thessaloniki in the Athens suburb of Agios Dimitrios in the Attica region, one of which is dedicated to the great elders of our times Sts. Paisios and Porphyrios, were consecrated on Sunday 15 October 2017. The second altar is dedicated to the Portaitissa…

Oct 17, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu

Hieromartyr Gregory, bishop of Greater Armenia; Martyrs Rhipsima and Gaiana

1. The Hieromartyr Gregory, Enlightener of Greater Armenia, was born in the year 257. He was descended from the line of the Parthian Arsakid emperors. The father of Saint Gregory, Anak, in striving after the Armenian throne, had murdered his kinsman, the emperor Kursar, in consequence of which all the line of Anak was marked…

Sep 30, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu