Anniversaries and commemorations

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

12th enthronement anniversary of His Beatitude Theophilos III

His Beatitude Theophilos III celebrates on 22 November 2017 his 12th enthronement 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 July 1964 and…

Nov 22, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu

His Beatitude Kirill celebrates his 71st birthday

His Beatitude Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia celebrates on 20 November 2017 his 71st birthday. His Beatitude Kirill (secular name Vladimir M. Gundyaev) was born on November 20, 1946, in Leningrad. After graduation from school, he entered the Leningrad Seminary and later the Leningrad Theological Academy, from which he graduated cum laude in 1970. On…

Nov 20, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu

His Beatitude Anastasios celebrates his 45th episcopal consecration anniversary

The current primate of the Albanian Orthodox Church celebrates on 19 November 2017 his 45th episcopal consecration anniversary. 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 the Theological Faculty of the National and…

Nov 19, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu

His Beatitude Chrysostomos II celebrates his name day

On 13 November 2017 His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus, celebrates his name day. 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. He also attended…

Nov 13, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu

11th enthronement anniversary of His Beatitude Chrysostomos II

On 12 November 2017 His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus, celebrates the 11th enthronement 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. He…

Nov 12, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu

His Beatitude Anastasios celebrates his 88th birthday

The current primate of the Albanian Orthodox Church celebrates on 4 November 2017 his 88th birthday. 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 the Theological Faculty of the National and Kapodistrian…

Nov 4, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu