Dioceses

Bucharest deaf community celebrates patron saint. “They are open, welcoming and receptive”

Because he was forced to express himself using signs to confess the Holy Trinity at the Second Ecumenical Council, when one of the heretics covered his mouth, the Holy Hierarch Meletius of Antioch, celebrated on February 12, is considered the patron saint of the hearing impaired and deaf people. The deaf community of the Archdiocese…

Feb 15, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian PM pays an official visit to the Metropolis of Bessarabia: future prospects discussed

Romania’s Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă visited the headquarters of the Metropolis of Bessarabia in Chisinau on Friday, February 11, 2022. The Romanian PM was received by the local hierarchs, including Metropolitan Petru of Bessarabia, Bishop Antonie of Balti and Bishop Veniamin of Southern Bessarabia, with whom he held talks in a warm atmosphere. The meeting…

Feb 14, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Teoctist remembered in his home village: “He was like a brother to us”

Romania’s former Patriarch Teoctist Arăpașu was prayerfully remembered in the courtyard of his native house in Tocileni, Botoşani County, on his 107th birth anniversary. The parish priest of Tocileni said that Patriarch Teoctist was as close as a brother to the villagers. Dozens of locals, including relatives of the former Romanian Patriarch, took part in…

Feb 10, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Bishop Gurie Georgiu named honorary citizen of Deva

Three months after his repose, Bishop Gurie Georgiu was awarded posthumous citizenship of Deva. The ceremony was held after the clergy-laity assembly of the Diocese of Deva and Hunedoara on January 27. The new shepherd of Deva and Hunedoara, His Grace Bishop Nestor officiated a memorial service for his predecessor at the Diocesan Centre in…

Feb 7, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Transylvania Metropolitan commemorates greatest Romanian philanthropist Emanuil Gojdu

The Metropolitan of Transylvania commemorated Romania’s most outstanding philanthropist Emanuil Gojdu on the 152nd anniversary of his repose during a memorial service in Sibiu last week. The memorial service was held in front of Emanuil Gojdu’s statue in Sibiu’s ASTRA Park in the presence of university professors, representatives of the ASTRA County Library in Sibiu…

Feb 7, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Church from time of St. Stephen the Great becomes monastery

500 years after it was consecrated, a stone church near Suceava was turned into a monastery.  Meeting on Wednesday, the Suceava Diocesan Council approved the establishment of the Sunday of All Saints Monastery in the village of Părhăuți in Suceava County. The community will be built around a church built and consecrated during the reign…

Jan 28, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

Bessarabia Metropolitan urges prayer for peace

The Metropolis of Bessarabia is following with concern the situation on the borders of Ukraine, where peace is fragile, His Eminence Metropolitan Petru said. “Tensions in the immediate vicinity of the Republic of Moldova threaten not only Ukraine but also the whole of Europe, which has only recently broken the iron curtain drawn after World…

Jan 26, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Saint Alexander’s relics offered to Bucharest retirement home chapel

Bishop Galaction of Alexandria and Teleorman donated a particle of the relics of St. Alexander of Constantinople to the chapel of the Luxab Retirement Home in Bucharest. The hierarch celebrated the Divine Liturgy at Luxab together with His Grace Assistant Bishop Timotei of Prahova on Sunday, January 16, 2022. “In doing good, let us not…

Jan 26, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

2022 priorities in Suceava Archdiocese: Hermitage to be built where Elder Cleopa hid in mountains

A priority of the Suceava and Rădăuți Archdiocese for this year is to start building a skete at Vadu Negrilesei, in Stânișoara Mountains, where Elder Cleopa Ilie withdrew for some years, away from the communist regime. As the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church is considering canonization of the elder in 2025, the Eparchy…

Jan 25, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

140th anniversary of repose of St Antipas the Athonite of Calapodești celebrated in Roman

Saint Antipas of Calapodești was honoured at the Cathedral in Roman with an all-night vigil and Divine Liturgy. This year marked the 140th anniversary of the blessed repose of Saint Antipas, the patron saint of a chapel of the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Roman, Neamt County. “Saint Antipas is also present and honoured in the synaxaria…

Jan 13, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Suceava Archdiocese donates 9 tons of food to 500 families for Christmas

Thanks to the efforts of the Social-Philanthropic Department and the Anastasie Crimca Foundation of the Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți, 500 families were blessed with food for Christmas. Over the last two months of the year, the archdiocese arranged five charity concerts with the participation of 43 vocal groups and artistic ensembles. The concerts raised…

Jan 12, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu