Diaspora

Bishop Ioan Casian urges Orthodox faithful in Canada to pray for the Toronto van attack victims

The Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada has sent a message expressing their compassion for the Toronto van attack victims. His Grace Bishop Ioan Casian urged the believers to pray for the victims of the terrible attack. The Romanian Bishop of Canada said he would be in contact with the Romanian Consulate in Toronto to learn…

Apr 24, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

Foundation stone laying ceremony for the Life-Giving Spring Church in New Jersey

On the 2nd Sunday after Easter (St. Thomas’ Sunday), HE Nicolae, the Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolis of the Americas, was in the midst of the faithful of the Life-Giving Spring parish of Long Valley, New Jersey, the Deanery of New York, New England and East USA. The pastoral visit of His Eminence began…

Apr 20, 2018Florin Nicolaie

New assistant bishop Teofil ordained to be a support for Romanians in Spain and Portugal

During the first episcopal consecration ever held in the new Presentation of Blessed Mary Orthodox Cathedral in Madrid, the Very Rev. Archimandrite Teofil Roman was ordained Sunday to the Episcopate for the Romanian Orthodox believers living in Spain and Portugal. Through synodal resolution, His Grace Teofil of Iberia was appointed assistant bishop to the Romanian…

Apr 16, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Sunday of Orthodoxy celebrated in Chicago

Sunday of Orthodoxy was celebrated in a special way this year in Chicago. At Ss. Constantine and Helen Romanian Cathedral of Chicago, the Divine Liturgy was served by HE Metropolitan Nicolae and the clergy of the Cathedral. At the time of the sermon, HE Nicolae spoke of the significance of Sunday of Orthodoxy, resuming the main ideas of the Pastoral…

Mar 1, 2018Gheorghe Anghel

50th anniversary of Austrian Orthodox Law. Ecumenical Patriarch thanks for good cooperation between Austrian State and Orthodox Church

His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Patriarch Theodoros of Alexandria, Orthodox and Roman-Catholic Bishops, Austrian state officials, and other personalities attended Tuesday evening a festive event in Vienna marking the 50th anniversary of the Orthodox Law (Orthodoxengesetz) adopted on 23 June 1967, by which the Orthodox Church in Austria has received a new legal basis for…

Mar 1, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Holy Synod elects two bishops for Romanian Diaspora

During its Thursday meeting, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church elected assistant bishops for two Romanian Dioceses in the Diaspora. The V. Rev. Archimandrite Atanasie Rusnac was elected assistant bishop to the Romanian Orthodox diocese of Italy. He will bear the title of His Grace Bishop Atanasie of Bogdania. The V. Rev. Archimandrite…

Feb 16, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Metr. Serafim at the beginning of Great Lent: Only by fasting does our hunger for God grow in us, and prayer enters the heart more easily

In his pastoral message addressed on the Sunday of Adam’s Expulsion from Paradise and the beginning of Great Lent, His Eminence Metropolitan Serafim of Germany urges faithful to observe the fast because only ‘thus does our hunger for God grow in us, and prayer enters the heart more easily.’ Reflecting on the Sunday gospel reading,…

Feb 15, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Video: Fr Makarios of Simonopetra launches new book on ‘Mystagogy of Great Lent’ in Paris

Hieromonk Makarios of Simonopetra launched Saturday his latest volume entitled Mystagogie du Grand Carême. Essai de théologie du temps liturgique (Mystagogy of Great Lent. A theological essay on liturgical time). Attending the event was His Eminence Iosif, Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of Western and Southern Europe. The book launch was held at the Holy Archangels Cathedral…

Feb 13, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Colosseum to be lit red for persecuted Christians

The Roman Colosseum will be illuminated by red lights later this month to draw attention to the persecution of Christians around the world, and especially in Syria and Iraq. On Saturday, Feb. 24, at 6 p.m. the Colosseum will be spotlighted in red, to represent the blood of Christians who have been wounded or lost…

Feb 8, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

St Genevieve celebrated in Paris | Rector: ‘She invested her entire life in forgetting herself to serve others’

A festive Divine Liturgy was celebrated Wednesday at the crypt under the St Suplice Church in Paris to commemorate Saint Genevieve, the patron saint of Paris. St Genevieve is also the protectress of the Romanian Orthodox Parish founded in the capital in 1998 with the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Iosif of Western and Southern…

Jan 4, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Bishop Macarie: Jesus Christ was born for you!

By God’s grace Bishop of the Orthodox Romanians living in Northern Europe, to the most reverend clergy, the venerable monastics and the beloved faithful: Greetings with a holy embrace in Christ Emmanuel, Who was born in the manger of Bethlehem and in the manger of our hearts! My beloved spiritual sons and daughters, Our Lord’s…

Dec 22, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu