Dioceses

Severin Diocese marks 350th anniversary dedicating chapel to newly-glorified Saint Theophano Basarab

The Diocese of Severin and Strehaia celebrated its 350th anniversary on Sunday in the former diocesan residence, Strehaia Monastery. The festivities featured the laying of the cornerstone for a chapel dedicated to Saint Theophano Basarab, the first-known Romanian nun canonised by the Holy Synod earlier this year. Local and central authorities attended, including Alin Isuf,…

Nov 1, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Colectiv club fire victims commemorated 7 years after the tragedy

Priests gathered last Sunday at St Nicholas – Brosteni Church in Bucharest to pray for the survivors and the victims of a deadly fire that broke out at a nightclub in Romania’s capital seven years ago. The assembly of priests was led by the dean of Bucharest’s Sector 4, Fr. Ionuț Bărbulescu. The prayers gathered…

Nov 1, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Deva’s first Bishop Gurie prayerfully remembered one year after his blessed repose

A year after the blessed repose of the first diocesan bishop of Deva, Gurie Georgiu, hierarchs, clergy, monastics and believers gathered in St Nicholas diocesan cathedral to remember him in prayer. Bishop Gurie Georgiu presided over the Diocese of Deva and Hunedoara from 2009 until his death on October 21, 2021. His Eminence Metropolitan Laurentiu…

Oct 27, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Cretan Metropolitan of Wallachia is one step closer to being canonised

The process for the canonisation of Metropolitan Neophyte of Crete, who led the Church in Wallachia in the first half of the 18th century, has taken a step forward. In a meeting at the synodal hall of the patriarchal residence on Monday, the hierarchs of the Metropolis of Muntenia and Dobruja analysed the liturgical texts…

Oct 25, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Cluj Archdiocese building palliative care centre for children

The Orthodox Archdiocese of Cluj is developing a brand-new palliative care facility for children with chronic illnesses. On Thursday, October 13, His Eminence Metropolitan Andrei of Cluj and His Grace Assistant Bishop Benedict of Bistriţa laid the cornerstone for the future St. Christopher Centre in Sânnicoară, Cluj County. A number of Orthodox believers, clergy, city…

Oct 18, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Suceava Archdiocese establishes Orthodox Women’s Society in honour of Princess Maria of Mangup

A new Orthodox Women’s Society carrying the name of Maria of Mangup, the second wife of Moldavia’s ruler Saint Stephen the Great, has been established, according to the Archdiocese of Suceava and Radauti. The new Society is an organisation that works to improve the community by volunteering in the three intervention areas of education, family,…

Oct 18, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Bucharest Archdiocese offers clothing items, school supplies to over 14,000 students

At the start of the 2022–2023 school year, 14,138 students were sponsored by the Archdiocese of Bucharest. The aid consisted of backpacks with school supplies, textbooks, clothes and shoes worth 276,247 EUR (1,364,023 lei). The clergy and employees in charge of social aid in the diocese carried out charitable deeds. Priest Ionuţ Tutea, who coordinates…

Oct 11, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Bucharest Archdiocese builds home for family of priest who died at 34

Fr. Costin Silviu Dinică, who was only 34 years old, passed away in 2019 after a protracted struggle with illness, leaving behind his wife and two small children. Last week, the family received a new home from the Bucharest Archdiocese. Clinceni city hall gave the property on which the house was erected. In his six…

Oct 11, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Fr Dumitru Stăniloae remembered at his tomb: He said you can meet God in the reality of your life

At Cernica Monastery, a memorial service for Father Dumitru Stăniloae was held on Wednesday, marking 29 years after his blessed repose. Fr. Gheorghe Holbea, a professor at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Bucharest, presided over the memorial service with a number of hieromonks at the Monastery’s Church of St. Nicholas. Additionally, attendees prayed at…

Oct 7, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Bp Varlaam to theology students: Society needs well-prepared priests

His Grace Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Varlaam of Ploiești celebrated the Divine Liturgy at St Catherine University Chapel to inaugurate the new academic year at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Bucharest on Monday, October 3, 2022. The patriarchal auxiliary bishop also officiated a Doxology, during which he prayed to God to bless theology students and…

Oct 7, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Bucharest parish discovers 19th-century icon of Theotokos during renovation works

The Protection of the Theotokos was celebrated for the first time as a patronal feast by St. John-Moși Parish in Bucharest this year. After a representation of the Virgin Mary as the Gorgoepikoos, or Quick to Hear, was found during restoration works at the church’s iconostasis, the church was placed under the Mother of God’s…

Oct 7, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu