Anniversaries and commemorations

His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch celebrates his 23rd anniversary of episcopal consecration

His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch celebrates on 24 January his 23rd anniversary of episcopal consecration. 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. They gave birth…

Jan 24, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

Patriarch Irinej of Serbia celebrates his 8th enthronement anniversary

Patriarch Irinej of Serbia celebrates on 23 January his 8th enthronement anniversary. Patriarch Irinej was born on 28 August 1930 in Vidova near Čačak, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. His Beatitude is the 45th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Serbs, since 22 January 2010. His full title is His Holiness…

Jan 23, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

His Beatitude Anastasios celebrates his name day

The current primate of the Albanian Orthodox Church celebrates his name day. Monkmartyr Anastasius the Persian is the spiritual protector of His Beatitude Anastasios. His Beatitude Anastasios Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, was born on November 4, 1929, in Piraeus, Greece. Archbishop Anastasios (Yannoulatos) Professor of History of Religions (1972-92) and Dean of…

Jan 22, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

His Beatitude Sawa celebrates his name day anniversary

His Beatitude Sawa (Hrycuniak), Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland celebrates Sunday his name day anniversary: St. Sava I, First Archbishop of Serbia. 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…

Jan 14, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia celebrates his 85th birthday anniversary

Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia celebrated on 04 January his 85th birthday anniversary. Ilia II, also transliterated as Ilya or Elijah (born January 4, 1933), is the current Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia and the spiritual leader of the Georgian Orthodox Church. He is officially styled as Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, the Archbishop of Mtskheta-Tbilisi and…

Jan 4, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch celebrates his 63rd birthday anniversary

His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch celebrates on 1 January 2018 his 63nd birthday anniversary. On the Repose of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John, His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and all East, celebrates his name day. His Beatitude John X was born in 1955 in the city of Lattakia, Syria. His…

Jan 1, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia celebrates his 40th enthronement anniversary. “I am grateful to all who pray for me”

Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia celebrated on 25 December his enthronement anniversary. On this occasion, a festive Divine Liturgy dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the enthronement of His Holiness Ilia II as Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia was celebrated Monday in the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta, Georgia. Pat. Ilia II was elected to the primatial throne…

Dec 26, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu

Metropolitan Laurentiu on Patriarch Daniel’s name day: ‘He is our example of ministry and preaching the salvific truth’

‘He is our example of ministry and preaching the salvific truth,’ said His Eminence Metropolitan Laurentiu congratulating Patriarch Daniel on his name day. On the feast of the Holy Prophet Daniel, December 19, 2017, the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church presided over the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest with an assembly…

Dec 20, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel of Romania celebrates his patron saints

On December 17-18, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel celebrates his patron saints: Prophet Daniel and Venerable Daniel the Hermit. He 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…

Dec 18, 2017Gheorghe Anghel

His Beatitude Sawa celebrates his 38th episcopal consecration anniversary

His Beatitude Sawa (Hrycuniak), Archbishop of Warsaw and Metropolitan of All Poland celebrates Saturday his 38th episcopal consecration anniversary. 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…

Nov 25, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu

HB Theodoros II celebrates his 63rd birthday anniversary

HB Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, celebrates his 63rd birthday anniversary. 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 from the Theological Faculty of the…

Nov 25, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu