Anniversaries and commemorations

World Health Day 2020: WHO celebrates efforts of nurses and midwives in the year of pandemic

The World Health Organization (WHO) observes World Health Day on 7 April every year. The contribution of doctors, nurses and other health workers is acknowledged on this day. The tagline of World Health Day 2020 is ‘Support nurses and midwives’. To generate attention towards their contribution during the COVID-19 outbreak, the World Health Day will…

Apr 7, 2020Sorin Ioniţe

International Children’s Book Day

Since 1967, on or around Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday, 2 April, International Children’s Book Day (ICBD) is celebrated to inspire a love of reading and to call attention to children’s books. Each year a different National Section of IBBY has the opportunity to be the international sponsor of ICBD. It decides upon a theme and…

Apr 2, 2020Iulian Dumitraşcu

World Autism Awareness Day

World Autism Awareness Day is an internationally recognized day on 2 April every year, encouraging the Member States of the United Nations to take measures to raise awareness about people with autistic spectrum disorders including autism and Asperger syndrome throughout the world. It was designated by the United Nations General Assembly resolution “62/139. World Autism…

Apr 2, 2020Iulian Dumitraşcu

HB Arch. Hieronymos II of Athens celebrates his 82nd birthday

On March 10, 2020, His Beatitude Hieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece celebrates his 82nd birthday. 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…

Mar 10, 2020Sorin Ioniţe

30 years since the Episcopal consecration of HB Romanian Patriarch Daniel

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel celebrates on 4 March 2020 his 30th anniversary of episcopal consecration. Patriarch Daniel, the sixth leader of the Romanian Orthodox Church, was born on 22 July 1951, in Dobreşti village, Bara commune, Timiş County, as the third child of teacher Alexie and his wife Stela Ciobotea. Between 1974 and 1976 he attended…

Mar 4, 2020Sorin Ioniţe

His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew celebrates his 80th Birthday

On Saturday, February 29, 2020, His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople celebrates his 80th birthday. Born Demetrios Archondonis on 29 February 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…

Feb 29, 2020Iulian Dumitraşcu

42nd episcopal consecration anniversary of His Beatitude Chrysostomos II

His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus, celebrates on 26 February 2020 his 42nd episcopal consecration anniversary. 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, 2020Sorin Ioniţe

Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte’s 7th enthronement anniversary

Monday, February 24, His Beatitude Patriarch Neophyte celebrates his 7th enthronement anniversary as Primate of Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Patriarch Neophyte (Bulgarian: Патриарх Неофит, secular name Simeon Nikolov Dimitrov; born 15 October 1945, Sofia) is the current head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church from 24 February 2013. Prior to his election, he was the Metropolitan of…

Feb 24, 2020Iulian Dumitraşcu

Patriarch of Alexandria celebrates his name day

His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, on the feast of Great Martyr Theodore the Tyro, celebrates his name day.  His Beatitude (born Nicholas Horeftakis), was born in Crete in 25 November 1954, where he completed his schooling. He is a graduate of the Rizarios Ecclesiastical School of Athens and holds a degree…

Feb 17, 2020Sorin Ioniţe

15th episcopal consecration anniversary of His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III

His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III celebrates on 14 February 2020 his 15th episcopal consecration anniversary. 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, 2020Iulian Dumitraşcu

7 Years since the enthronement of HB Patriarch John X of Antioch

His Beatitude John X celebrates on 10 February 2020 his 7th anniversary as Patriarch of Antioch. His Beatitude Patriarch 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. They gave birth…

Feb 10, 2020Iulian Dumitraşcu