Dioceses

Huși Bishop Ignatie: Simona Halep means faith in God, perseverance, love of family and country

Romanian tennis star Simona Halep won the Wimbledon 2019 final and gained her second Grand Slam title, after the Roland Garros 2018. In the final, on July 13, Halep defeated former world number one and multiple Grand Slam title winner Serena Williams in two sets: 6-2, 6-2. His Grace Bishop Ignatie of Huși, the only Romanian…

Jul 17, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Neurosurgeon Ștefan Mindea receives distinction from Huși Diocese

The renowned neurosurgeon and former Professor at Stanford University Medical Center, California, Rev. Deacon Ștefan Mindea, received the Diocesan Cross from the Huși Diocese ‘for the very intense activity carried out for the recovery of fellow people.’ The award was bestowed during a ceremony held on Sunday, July 7, 2019, on the feast of St…

Jul 11, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Monastery founded by Patriarch Daniel celebrates patronal feast

The monastery founded by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel in his home village celebrated its patronal feast on Tuesday, July 2, 2019 when the Church commemorated Ruler Prince Saint Stephen the Great. The Divine Liturgy was presided over by His Grace Bishop Emilian of Crisana, auxiliary bishop to the Arad Archdiocese. In his homily, Bishop Emilian…

Jul 9, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Meet Fr. Marin Trandafir Roz, the first Roma Orthodox priest in Cluj County

The 27-year-old Marin Trandafir Roz is the first Roma Orthodox priest ever ordained in Cluj County. He was ordained to the priesthood at the beginning of this year by the local Metropolitan Andrei Andreicuț. During a bilingual Divine Liturgy marking this year’s International Romani Day, Father Marin concelebrated with the Orthodox Metropolitan of Cluj offering…

Jul 8, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Cluj Metropolitan Andrei celebrates Romanian-Romani bilingual Divine Liturgy for Roma community in Turda

Marking this year’s International Romani Day, His Eminence Metropolitan Andrei of Cluj presided over a Romanian-Romani bilingual Divine Liturgy at an Orthodox parish led by a Roma priest in Turda. The Orthodox Archdiocese of Cluj includes two missionary parishes dedicated to Roma people, one in Pata Rât and the other in Turda. The 27-year old…

Jul 8, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

St Stephen transfigured the world through prayer, faith, love of nation: Metropolitan Iosif at Putna

Metropolitan Iosif ow Western and Southern Europe on Tuesday said that ‘Saint Stephen transfigured this world through prayer, faith, humility, love of his family and nation, which became his family’. ‘In everything he did, he searched for Christ the Lord,’ the Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of Western and Southern Europe said during the patronal feast of…

Jul 2, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Monastic life revived in romanian village after 200 years

After 200 years, the monastic life has been revived in Redea, a village in the southcentral Romania commune of Buzoieşti, 70 miles west of Bucharest, where previously a monastery had functioned since the time of Prince Michael the Brave (1558-1601). After many years of construction, the Church of the Holy Trinity was consecrated on Monday…

Jun 19, 2019Gheorghe Anghel

Lower Danube Archdiocese helps 100+ flood victim families

A broad missionary and philanthropic activity was organized by and with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Casian of the Lower Danube Archdiocese of the Romanian Orthodox Church on Tuesday to aid more than 100 families that have suffered from the recent flooding that has struck many localities in Romania. On that day, 132 families…

Jun 14, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Holy Cincture of the Theotokos arrives in Voluntari, Romania

The reliquary with a part of the Holy Cincture (Holy Belt) of the Mother of God from Kato Xenia Monastery arrived at St Parasceva Church in Voluntari on Thursday morning, May 30. The delegation from Greece was welcomed by Fr. Cristian Burcea, dean of Ilfov Nord Deanery, in the presence of many believers. The Holy…

May 30, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Patronal Feast of Sihastria Putnei Monastery: In 19 years ‘the wilderness of before bloomed like a lily’

Leading the patronal feast of Sihastria Putnei Monastery, His Eminence Archbishop Pimen referred to the re-establishment of the monastic settlement noting that since 1990 ‘through the blessing of God and with the generosity of believers (…) the wilderness of before bloomed like a lily.’ ‘With every small contribution was made what we see here today.…

May 20, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

‘Lower Land travels to Upper Land’ on the feast of St Jacob of Putna

Over 1,000 pilgrims from the Archdiocese of Roman and Bacau travelled to Putna Monastery together with their Archbishop Ioachim to celebrate the feast day of Saint Jacob of Putna on Wednesday, May 15, 2019. ‘On the 300th birthday anniversary of Saint Jacob of Putna, the Lower Land travelled to the Upper Land,’ the abbot of…

May 20, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu