Anniversaries and commemorations

His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch celebrates his name day

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 father Mounah Yazigi was from Lattakia, a teacher of the Arabic language. His mother Rosa Moussi…

Sep 26, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

On the first day of the Ecclesiastical Year, Christians pray for the environment

Twenty-eight years ago, the first day of the Ecclesiastical Year (Indiction) was established as World Day of Prayer for the Protection of Creation. In 1989, in a patriarchal encyclical the Ecumenical Patriarch Demetrius I invited all Christians to pray for the protection of the environment. This encyclical issued on the first day of the Ecclesiastical…

Sep 1, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel celebrates His 66th anniversary

His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania, celebrates on saturday, 22 july 2017, his 66th anniversary. 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 in his native…

Jul 22, 2017Gheorghe Anghel

His Eminence Metropolitan Nicolae Condrea celebrates today his 15th anniversary of episcopal consecration

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 1981. He attended the first two years of high school at the Mathematics & Physics High School…

Jul 14, 2017Gheorghe Anghel

Former Romanian Patriarch Teoctist’s 102nd Birthday Anniversary (1915-2017)

Tuesday, 7 February 2017, we remember the fifth Patriarch of Romania Teoctist on his 102nd Birthday Anniversary. Patriarch Teoctist pastored the Romanian Orthodox Church for 21 years and succeeded in maintaining a living Orthodox faith and tradition in extremely difficult times for Romania. Patriarch Teoctist was born on February 7, 1915, in the village Tocileni,…

Feb 7, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel of Romania celebrates today his protector saint

His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania, celebrates Saturday, 17 December 2016, his protector saint: Prophet Daniel. 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 in his…

Dec 17, 2016Aurelian Iftimiu

The 9th anniversary of the enthronement as Romanian Patriarch of His Beatitude Daniel

His Beatitude Daniel celebrates on Friday, 30 September 2016, the 9th anniversary of the enthronement as Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (30 September 2007). BIOGRAPHY 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…

Sep 30, 2016Gheorghe Anghel

31 august 1918 – Metropolitan Petrescu Ghenadie passed away in Bucharest

Aug 31, 2014basilica.ro

14 August 1849 – Bishop GHERASIM TIMUȘ was born in Iași

14 August 1849 – Bishop GHERASIM TIMUȘ was born in Iași – photo-. Studies at “Veniamin” Seminary at Socola (1867 – 1874), with difference of secondary school and school leaving examination, then at the Faculties of Philology of Bucharest and Iași; married deacon (1871); widower, he becomes a monk at Cernica, in 1875, having been…

Aug 14, 2014basilica.ro

14 August 1886 – Primate Metropolitan CALINIC MICLESCU, passed away in Bucharest

14 August 1886 – Primate Metropolitan CALINIC MICLESCU (baptised Constantine), passed away in Bucharest. Ordained monk in Huși (18 June 1842), named Calinic, by his uncle Sofronie, the future Metropolitan of Moldova is ordained hierodeacon (1843), hieromonk (1848), then protosingel and archimandrite; on 2 February 1855, “titular hiearch” named “Hariupoleos”, from 1851 – 1858, abbot…

Aug 14, 2014basilica.ro

8 August 1808 – PROCOPIE IVAȘCOVICI, Bishop, Metropolitan and then Patriarch, was born in Deliblata (today’s Serbian Banat)

8 August 1808 – PROCOPIE IVAȘCOVICI (baptised Petru), Bishop, Metropolitan and then Patriarch, was born in Deliblata (today’s Serbian Banat). Gymnasium studies at Oradea and Novisad. Studies of philosophy at Kesmark, Theology at Vârșeț, and of Law at Sarospatak. Monk at the Serb Monastery of Ghergheteg, professor at the Theological Seminary of Carloviț (1835), at…

Aug 8, 2014basilica.ro