Diaspora

Orthodoxy has become second biggest religion in Austria

Orthodoxy has become the second biggest religion in majority-Catholic Austria, reports Der Standard. While intense debate is underway in Austria on the growing Muslim population, Orthodoxy has quietly and discreetly grown into the second largest religious community in the country. Islam has held the first place in terms of migrants to Austria in recent years. According…

Sep 18, 2018Gheorghe Anghel

Symposium “Celebrating the Great Union” in Sacramento, California

Romanians from Sacramento experienced moments of spiritual joy and Romanian pride at the occasion of the Symposium “Celebrating the Great Union”. Organized by the Holy Resurrection Romanian Orthodox Church of Sacramento, under the auspices of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolia of the Americas and in the presence of HE Metropolitan Nicolae, the Symposium marked the Year…

Sep 6, 2018Gheorghe Anghel

Clergy Conference of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolia of the Americas Chicago

The Cathedral of Ss. Constantine and Helen of Chicago hosted, between 31 August and 1 September 2018, the Clergy Conference of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolia of the Americas. The conference was organized for the first time in this format, namely as an annual pastoral-missionary meeting of the priests of the two dioceses of the Metropolia:…

Sep 6, 2018Gheorghe Anghel

Feast Day at Holy Brancoveanu Martyrs Mission in Fairfield, Connecticut

The Mission of Holy Brancoveanu Martyrs in Fairfield, Connecticut celebrated its feast day on Saturday and Sunday, August 18-19, 2018, in the presence of HE Metropolitan Nicolae. On Saturday evening, the Vespers service was performed by several priests under the direction of HE Nicolae. HE Metropolitan Nicolae spoke to the faithful about the importance of…

Aug 24, 2018Florin Nicolaie

Metropolitan Iosif prays for Romanian victims following Genoa bridge collapse

His Eminence Metropolitan Iosif of Western and Southern Europe prayed Sunday, August 19, at the Holy Archangels Romanian Orthodox Cathedral in Paris for the rest of the souls of the young Romanians who died following the Genoa bridge collapse. At least 43 people were killed when a section of the 1,102-metre-long (3,615 ft) Ponte Morandi…

Aug 21, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian Diocese of Italy expresses solidarity with victims of Genoa bridge collapse

A day after a highway bridge collapsed in Genoa, Italy, killing at least 39 people, the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Italy released a message expressing compassion and solidarity with the victims’ families. Full text: The Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Italy learned with great sorrow the news that many people, including children, died under the ruins…

Aug 16, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

The Romanian Summer Festival took place in Chicago

The seventh edition of the Romanian Summer Festival took place this year again between faith and tradition, that is, between the New Gracanica Monastery, the site of Orthodoxy and the willow lake, which reminds of the Romanian lands and the waters where the women washed hemp, from which then they were weaving of our Romanian port. Faith…

Aug 3, 2018Florin Nicolaie

Romanian Bishop of Canada urges faithful to pray for Toronto attack victims

With great sadness, the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada learnt of the recent tragic event that took place last night in Greektown, Toronto, Canada. Two people have been killed and 12 others wounded, one of them critically, by a gunman who opened fire on a busy avenue in Canada’s largest city. H.G. Bishop Ioan Casian…

Jul 23, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

Dr. Ionuț-Alexandru Tudorie named academic dean of SVOTS

St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) has appointed Dr. Ionuţ-Alexandru Tudorie to the position of academic dean. The Seminary’s Board of Trustees selected Tudorie, a native of Romania, on July 18 after the Academic Dean Search Committee had narrowed down the list of possible candidates to two. The announcement concludes an extended and carefully-undertaken search process that…

Jul 23, 2018Gheorghe Anghel

Schema-Archimandrite Gabriel Bunge meets with Orthodox Theologians from Munich

The Swiss theologian and patrologist Schema-Archimandrite Gabriel Bunge met last weekend with Theology professors and students from the Institute of Orthodox Theology at Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich. Archimandrite Gabriel Bunge retreated from the world 38 years ago in the Rovedero Capriasca hermitage, close to Lugano, and converted to Orthodoxy in 2010, after studying the writings of…

Jul 17, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Saint Andrew Șaguna added as second patron saint of Romanian Orthodox Cathedral in Melbourne

Saint Andrew Șaguna, Metropolitan of Transylvania, was added as a second patron saint of the Romanian Orthodox Cathedral in Melbourne, which was originally dedicated to Sts Peter and Paul. Saint Andrew Șaguna lived in the 19th century in Transylvania and was glorified by the Romanian Orthodox Church in 2011. He is considered one of the…

Jul 3, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu