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‘The Good to Know’ online magazine is now available for download

The first issue of ‘The Good to Know’ online magazine of the Basilica News Agency is now available for download. This project initially started in 2017 was named ‘The Basilica monthly review,’ and was published at the beginning of every month until its rebranding this year. What you are about to look through is the…

Feb 14, 2019Sorin Ioniţe

December 2018 Basilica.ro Review

We released Basilica.ro December 2018 monthly review. The December 2018 edition is now available in colour pdf format for downloading and local distribution. Each monthly edition will feature select articles that had been published on the Basilica News Agency website during the previous month. Feel free to download, read and distribute the Good to Know!  Photo courtesy of Basilica.ro

Jan 14, 2019Sorin Ioniţe

Basilica’s top 8: which articles have been most popular?

We’ve compiled a list of the top 8 most viewed Basilica pieces of content in 2018. The most popular article was related to the consecration ceremony of Romania’s National Cathedral, performed by His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania on November 25, 2018. Basilica’s top 8 Consecration ceremony of Romania National…

Jan 9, 2019Sorin Ioniţe

His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch celebrates his 63th birthday

His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch celebrates on 01 January 2019 his 63th birthday. Patriarch John X of Antioch His Beatitude John X was born in 1955 in the city of Lattakia, Syria. His father Mounah Yazigi was from Lattakia, a teacher of the Arabic language. His mother Rosa Moussi is from Tripoli, Lebanon.…

Jan 1, 2019Sorin Ioniţe

35th anniversary of the repose of Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann

Thursday, December 13, 2018 marks the 35th anniversary of the repose of Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann, Dean of Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and one of the 20th century’s leading Orthodox Christian theologians, reports OCA. Father Alexander was born in Estonia in 1921 to a family of Russian emigres. He spent his youth in France, where he completed…

Dec 13, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

November 2018 Basilica.ro Review

We released Basilica.ro November 2018 monthly review. The November 2018 edition is now available in colour pdf format for downloading and local distribution. Each monthly edition will feature select articles that had been published on the Basilica News Agency website during the previous month. Feel free to download, read and distribute the Good to Know! Foto credit: Basilica.ro

Dec 10, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

Patriarch Daniel on Romania National Day: Let us defend and cultivate national freedom and unity (Full text)

Address by His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, at the Coronation Cathedral in Alba Iulia, at the commemoration of the 1918 Great Union founders, Saturday, December 1, 2018, National Day of Romania: Let us defend and cultivate national freedom and unity as expressions of the dignity of the Romanian people The Great…

Dec 1, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

Alexandrian Holy Synod establishes 5 new dioceses

Meeting in Alexandria under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria and All Africa on Monday, the Holy Synod of the Church of Alexandria resolved to establish 5 new dioceses for the Church, reports the Patriarchate’s website, quoted by OrthoChristian. At the proposal of Pat. Theodors, the Synod decided to establish the new…

Nov 28, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

The National Cathedral: Act of consecration

Romanian Patriarchate Metropolitanate of Wallachia and Dobrudgea Archbishopric of Bucharest The Cathedral of the Nation’s Salvation or the National Cathedral Act of consecration In the Centenary year of 2018, the altar of the Cathedral of the Nation’s Salvation or the National Cathedral with the patronal feasts of the Ascension of the Lord (Heroes’ Day) and…

Nov 26, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

Message by Romanian Patriarch Daniel at the solemn meeting of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church

The Speech of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania, at the solemn meeting of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Synodal Hall, Patriarchal Residence in Bucharest, 24 November 2018: Your Holiness, On behalf of the members of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church, we welcome you at this solemn meeting of…

Nov 24, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

Ecumenical Patriarchate reiterates its decision concerning Ukraine: Communiqué

Communiqué of the Ecumenical Patriarchate / 19.11.2018: In preparation of the meeting of the Holy and Sacred Synod on 27-29 November, 2018, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople reiterates its sacred decision to grant the Tomos of Autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. While the preparation process for the Holy Council (SOBOR) of the Orthodox Church…

Nov 21, 2018Sorin Ioniţe