Anniversaries and commemorations

11 May 1999 – priest ILARION ARGATU (baptised Ioan), hieromonk and very appreciated father confessor passed away in Bucharest (buried at Boroaia, county of Suceava)

11 May 1999 – priest ILARION ARGATU (baptised Ioan), hieromonk and very appreciated father confessor passed away in Bucharest (buried at Boroaia, county of Suceava). Studies at the Theological Seminary of Dorohoi, continued at the Faculty of Theology of Cernăuți; he attended, in parallel, the courses of the Military School of Bacău, getting the sub-lieutenant…

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5 May 1854 – Priest CONSTANTIN MORARIU, poet and translator, was born at Mitocu Dragomirnei

5 May 1854 – Priest CONSTANTIN MORARIU, poet and translator, was born at Mitocu Dragomirnei. Studies at the Secondary School in Sucevița (1866 – 1874) and at the Faculty of Theology of Cernăuți (1874 – 1878). Priest in Toporăuți (1878 – 1886), Cernăuți (1866-1896) and Pătrăuți (1896 – 1917), metropolitan counsellor in Cernăuți (1918 –…

May 5, 2014basilica.ro

5 May 1875 – Metropolitan NIFON (baptised Nicolae Rusailă) passed away in Bucharest (buried at Cernica)

5 May 1875 – Metropolitan NIFON (baptised Nicolae Rusailă) passed away in Bucharest (buried at Cernica). Monk at Cernica in 1809 and ordained hierodeacon for the Metropolitan See, later on hieromonk (1826), iconom at the Diocese of Râmnic (1827), archimandrite (1826), abbot at Cozia (1839), vicar of the Metropolitan See of Ungro-Wallachia (1841), ordained hierarch…

May 5, 2014basilica.ro

2 may 1881 – Bishop Grigorie Leu was born in Țuțcani, Vaslui county

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1 may 1967 – theologian Gheorghe Racoveanu passed away in Freising, Germany

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1 may 1994 – Archbishop Antim Nica passed away in Galați

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28 april 1922 – songwriter, teacher and folklorist Ioan Zmeu passed away in Curtea de Argeș

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27 april 1882 – Nicolae Bălan, future metropolitan of Ardeal, was born in Blăjenii de Sus, county of Bistrița Năsăud

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27 april 1895 – Rev. Prof. Constantin (Zlatian) Nițescu was born in Băleni county of Dâmbovița

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27 April 1947 – ATANASIE LEPOVAN, professor, conductor, composer, religious singer, passed away in Timișoara

27 April 1947 – ATANASIE LEPOVAN, professor, conductor, composer, religious singer, passed away in Timișoara. Gymnasium studies at Sântana and high studies at “Preparanderia” (pedagogical school) of Arad (1888 – 1892). Teacher in the communes of Toracul Mic (1892 – 1894), Comloșul Bănățean (1894 – 1896) and Sânnicolaul Mare (1910 – 1918), school deputy inspector…

Apr 27, 2014basilica.ro

23 April 1738 – Metropolitan of Wallachia STEFAN II passed away (buried at the Metropolitan See, in Bucharest)

23 April 1738 – Metropolitan of Wallachia STEFAN II passed away (buried at the Metropolitan See, in Bucharest). He was born in 1630. Ecclesiarch of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Bucharest, Bishop of Buzau (1719 – 1731) and Metropolitan (January 1732 – 1738). During his pastoral rule many books were printed, among which Chiriacodromionul (1732), after…

Apr 23, 2014basilica.ro