Anniversaries and commemorations

9 Bible Verses about Work

Colossians 3:23 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men Proverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, you sluggard! Consider her ways and be wise Proverbs 12:27 Diligence is man’s precious possession. Ecclesiastes 3:13 Every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.…

May 1, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

1st enthronement anniversary of HE Nicolae, Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of the Americas

His Eminence Nicolae celebrates on 30 April his 1st anniversary as Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of the Americas. His Eminence Metropolitan Nicolae was born in the city of Constanţa on April 15, 1967, to his parents Nicolae and Victoria, both now asleep in the Lord. He attended elementary school in his native city between 1973 and…

Apr 30, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

HB Metr. Sawa celebrates his 80th Birthday

His Beatitude Sawa (Hrycuniak), Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland celebrates Sunday his 80th Birthday. His Beatitude Sawa is the current head of the autocephalous Church of Poland. He is the eighth hierarch to head the Polish church since it was granted autocephaly by the Patriarch of Constantinople in 1924. As Archbishop of…

Apr 15, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

Patriarch Theophilos III celebrates his 66th Birthday

His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, celebrates on 4 April 2018 his 66th Birthday. His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III (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 July 1964…

Apr 4, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

Patriarch Kirill celebrates 42nd Anniversary of Ordination to Episcopate

His Beatitude Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrates Wednesday, 14 March 2018, the 42nd Anniversary of his Ordination to the Episcopate. His Beatitude Kirill (secular name Vladimir M. Gundyaev) was born on 20 November 1946, in Leningrad. After graduation from school, he entered the Leningrad Seminary and later the Leningrad Theological Academy, from…

Mar 14, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

Patriarch Theophilos III celebrates his name day

His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, celebrates Friday his name day: Martyr Theophilus of the Holy 40 Martyrs of Sebaste. The Patriarchate of Jerusalem keeps the Unrevised Julian calendar (by old style). Therefore, 40 Holy Martyrs of Sebaste will be celebrated on Thursday, March 22, 2018. His Beatitude…

Mar 9, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

28 Years since the Episcopal consecration of HB Romanian Patriarch Daniel

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel celebrates on 4 March 2018 his 28th anniversary of episcopal consecration. HB Romanian Patriarch Daniel was born on 22 July 1951, to parents Alexe and Stela Ciobotea, in Dobreşti village, Bara commune, county of Timiş. He was baptised Dan-Ilie. EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1958 – 1962 – he attends the primary school…

Mar 4, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew celebrates his 78th Birthday

His Holiness Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, celebrates Wednesday his 78th Birthday. The Patriarch was born on February 29, 1940, and in the non-leap years, he is used to celebrating his birthday on February 28. At the invitation of HB Romanian Patriarch Daniel, His Holiness will attend the consecration of the Romanian Orthodox Church’s National…

Feb 28, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

40 Years since the episcopal consecration of HB Arch. Chrysostomos II of Cyprus

His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus, celebrates on 26 February 2018 his 40th anniversary of episcopal consecration. 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, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

HB Theodoros II celebrates his name day

HB Theodoros II celebrates Saturday his name day. Great Martyr Theodore the Tyro is the spiritual protector of the Pope and the 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…

Feb 17, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

12 Years since the enthronement of HB Hieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece

His Beatitude Hieronymos II celebrates on 16 February his 12th anniversary as Archbishop of Athens and All Greece. 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…

Feb 16, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu