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Ecumenical Patriarch receives an honorary doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

In the agenda of the 10th Academic Conference of the Orthodox-Jewish Dialogue which takes place in Jerusalem from 5 to 7 December 2017, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem decided to pay His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew the honorable distinction of the Doctor Philosophiae honoris causa. For this reason, His Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch arrived at…

Dec 7, 2017Sorin Ioniţe

November 2017 Basilica.ro Review available for download

We released our second edition of the Basilica.ro monthly review. The November 2017 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…

Dec 6, 2017Sorin Ioniţe

In pictures: Refurbishment of the Holy Shrine of Saints Joachim and Anna

The refurbishment of the Monastery of Saints Joachim and Anna in Jerusalem was completed in September 2017, the official newsgate of the Jerusalem Patriarchate reports. The Abbot of the Monastery, the Very Rev. Archimandrite Meletios carried out this project with an additional support from the donations made by pilgrims. The restoration included the Church and…

Nov 17, 2017Sorin Ioniţe

October 2017 Basilica.ro Review available for download

We are happy to announce the release of our first edition of the Basilica.ro monthly review. The October 2017 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…

Nov 2, 2017Sorin Ioniţe

In pictures: 500th anniversary of consecration of Curtea de Argeș Cathedral

Foto credit: Robert Nicolae/Basilica.ro

Oct 31, 2017Sorin Ioniţe

Solemn Meeting of the Holy Synod | HB Anastasios about The Church of Albania: The terrible trials made it look like desolate land

Adress of His Beatitude Anastasios, Archbishop of Tirana, Dürres and All Albania, at the Solemn Session of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Bucharest, Saturday 28 October 2017. Difficulties of Confessing the Orthodox Faith during Communism in Albania and the importance of religious freedom today “For it has been granted to you that…

Oct 30, 2017Sorin Ioniţe

The Holy Trinity Parish in Rochester, NY celebrated 15 years of existence

The members of the Holy Trinity parish in the city of Rochester, New York State, celebrated on Sunday, October 22, 2017, 15 years from the foundation of the parish and the parish priest’s ordination, Fr. Daniel Adrian Ene. The event was attended by His Eminence Nicolae, the Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolia of the…

Oct 30, 2017Sorin Ioniţe

Metropolitan Teofan: “A tireless patriarch for the Church and his people”

Speech presented by Teofan, Metropolitan of Moldova and Bucovina, in the Patriarchal Cathedral on Saturday, 28 October 2017, 9:30 am, after the Te Deum service at the 10th anniversary of His Beatitude Daniel as Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church: The 10th anniversary of patriarchal ministry of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel is a good opportunity…

Oct 28, 2017Sorin Ioniţe

His Beatitude Anastasios. A profile of the restorer of Orthodoxy in Albania

The current primate of the Albanian Orthodox Church has in fact re-established the institution which he leads, which had been destroyed for 23 years by the communist regime that proclaimed Albania an atheist state. His Beatitude Anastasios Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, was born on November 4, 1929, in Piraeus, Greece. Archbishop Anastasios…

Oct 26, 2017Sorin Ioniţe

Permanent Committee on Consensus and Collaboration of the WCC met on Rhodes

From responding to divisions within churches and communities, to addressing fair representation within the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Permanent Committee on Consensus and Collaboration (PCCC) of the WCC met from 2-6 October in Rhodes, Greece, hosted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, through the hospitality of H. E. Metropolitan Kyrillos of Rhodes. Co-moderated by H.E.…

Oct 13, 2017Sorin Ioniţe

Patriarch Kirill to CROCEU members: We, as the one Orthodox Church, have common views, and we need to represent our interests together

On 8 October 2017, after the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of the Holy Dormition of the Lavra of the Holy Trinity and St. Sergius, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with participants in the off-site session of the Committee of Representatives of the Orthodox Churches to the European Union (CROCEU),…

Oct 10, 2017Sorin Ioniţe