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Metropolitan of Bessarabia consecrates new church built in place of one destroyed by Godless Soviets

His Eminence Petru, Metropolitan of Bessarabia, consecrated on August 30, the new church of the Larga Nouă community in the Republic of Moldova. The worship place is dedicated to the feast of the “Translation of St Nicholas’ Relics” and it replaces the community church built in 1800 and destroyed in 1954, during the Soviet occupation.…

Sep 6, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: August 29 – September 4, 2022

The passage to another season and the start of the New Church Year were opportunities for prayer and thanksgiving offered to God by the Orthodox faithful. Please see below our Week in Pictures feature for the period between August 29 – September 4, 2022. Last week’s most-liked Instagram post:   View this post on Instagram…

Sep 6, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: August 22-28, 2022

Please join us in a virtual stroll through the Orthodox world by watching our weekly selection of pictures taken between August 22 and 28. Last week’s most-liked Instagram post:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Basilica.ro (@basilica.ro) Do you want to be featured in our weekly selection of photos? We…

Aug 31, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

Extension projects at Mono Monastery in Canada: The monks kindly ask for the prayers of Orthodox Romanians

The Mono Monastery, in the Canadian province of Ontario, announced on Wednesday the completion of repairs done to the chapel roof and thanked all those who made it possible – Romanian Orthodox Bishop Ioan Casian and the benefactors. The monks also announced extension projects. The small monastic community also transmitted they are about to get…

Aug 25, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

HE Kallistos Ware reposes in the Lord. He combined pastoral love with academic rigor

Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia, a distinguished theologian and hierarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, reposed in the Lord on Wednesday night, around 01:00 hours. He was born with the name of Timothy in Bath, Great Britain, in 1934, and studied at Westminster School and the prestigious Magdalen College in Oxford. He discovered Orthodoxy while he…

Aug 24, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

Patriarch Daniel sends condolences after Metropolitan Kallistos Ware reposes in the Lord

Patriarch Daniel sent condolences to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I on Wednesday, after His Eminence Kallistos, Metropolitan of Diokleia, reposed in the Lord. The Patriarch of Romania called the recently-departed hierarch “an old friend of our Church and of ours, personally”. Full text: Bucharest, 24 August 2022 His Holiness BARTHOLOMEW, Archbishop of Constantinople – New Rome,…

Aug 24, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: August 15-21, 2022

Please see below our weekly selection of Orthodox snapshots – this time captured in the period between the feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God and the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost. Which one is your favourite? Last week’s most-liked Instagram post:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Basilica.ro…

Aug 23, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

Proposed for canonization, Fr Alexandru Baltaga perished in the Gulag for voting unification of Bessarabia with Romania

Father Alexandru Baltaga was the representative of the Church in the House of Representatives in 1918, when he voted for the unification of Bessarabia with Romania. When the Soviets occupied Bessarabia, in 1941, aged 80, he was deported to a forced labour camp in Kazan, today’s Capital city of Tatarstan. The priest had admitted to…

Aug 22, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

Newly-discovered basilica at the See of Galilee indicates possible location of Apostles Peter and Andrew’s home

A newly-found mosaic in el-Araj, on the northern shore of Lake Kinneret in Israel, shows the most probable location of the city of Bethsaida and it could also indicate the home of Apostles Peter and Andrew, who were brothers. A 1,500-year-old mosaic mentions the name of the basilica founder, Constantine, and a prayer addressed to…

Aug 18, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: August 8 -14, 2022

A virtual stroll through the Orthodox world. From America to Israel, toTurkey or Romania, the joy of being Orthodox was captured in our weekly selection of pictures. Last week’s most-liked Instagram post:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Basilica.ro (@basilica.ro) Do you want to be featured in our weekly selection…

Aug 17, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

Oslo: 55-year-old Norwegian baptized Orthodox by Romanian Bishop Macarie of Northern Europe

55-year-old Norwegian Toma and child Matias are the newest members of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Northern Europe. Romanian Orthodox Bishop Macarie baptized them on July 30. The Holy Sacrament was officiated in the Oslo Chapel of the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Northern Europe. “I rejoice when I dress people into Christ – be they…

Aug 12, 2022Ștefana Totorcea