Dioceses

Society of Orthodox Women established in Bălți Diocese

The Society of Orthodox Women was established on Tuesday, Dec. 18, at the Nativity of the Lord Church in Bălți, Moldova, aiming ‘to promote and to foster Christian virtues in family, school and public life and to contribute to the active involvement of the Orthodox Christian woman in the national community for a better life.’…

Dec 21, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Let us stop for a moment the rush that defines our life – Metropolitan Teofan

At the end of the Christmas carol concert held in Iasi on Friday, Dec. 14, Metropolitan Teofan of Moldavia and Bukovina spoke about the way we should spend Christmas urging those present to stop for a moment the rush that defines our life. The Metropolis of Moldavia and Bukovina organized a concert of Christmas carols…

Dec 19, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

20th anniversary of repose of Elder Cleopas Ilie prayerfully commemorated at Sihastria Monastery

His Grace Bishop Veniamin of Southern Bessarabia on Saturday, Dec. 8, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at St Theodora Church of Sihastria Monastery commemorating Archimandrite Cleopas Ilie, one of Romania’s charismatic elders of the past century, on the 20th anniversary of his blessed repose. Elder Cleopas was an abbot of Sihastria Monastery and a well-known spiritual…

Dec 11, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

First church dedicated to St Porphyrios of Kavsokalyva consecrated in Romania

On Sunday, Metropolitan Laurențiu of Transylvania performed the consecration service of the first church dedicated to St. Porphyrios in Romania. The church belongs to Bod Colonie Parish in Brașov and the main patronal feast of the church is the Ascension of the Lord. Metropolitan Laurențiu of Transylvania explained the symbolism of the consecration service of…

Dec 6, 2018Gheorghe Anghel

VIDEO | Two hierarchs concelebrate at Radu Voda Monastery on the feast of Saint Nectarios of Aegina

On Friday, November 9, the Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Varlaam of Ploiesti and the Assistant Bishop to the Bucharest Archdiocese, Timotei of Prahova, concelebrated at the Divine Liturgy held at Radu Voda Monastery in Bucharest marking the feast of Saint Nectarios of Aegina. A particle of St Nectarios’s holy relics is enshrined at the Monastery’s main…

Nov 14, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Tulcea Bishop Visarion meets with US Ambassador to Romania Hans Klemm

His Grace Bishop Visarion of Tulcea on Tuesday, October 30, met with the Ambassador of the United States to Romania Hans Klemm. The meeting took place at the County’s Public Library being occasioned by the inauguration of the American Shelf in Tulcea. The American Shelf event is a book donation including various volumes of classical…

Nov 2, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Prayers offered at Colectiv Club in commemoration of fire victims. Photos

Three years after one of Romania’s worst fire which occurred during a free concert performed at the Colectiv nightclub in Bucharest, priests and believers offered their prayers for the rest of the souls of the victims. Rev. Ioan Armasi, an Orthodox dean in Bucharest, together with an assembly of priests went Tuesday morning to the…

Oct 31, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Tomis Archbishop celebrates Divine Liturgy of St James at Constanta Cathedral

His Eminence Archbishop Teodosie of Tomis on Tuesday celebrated the Divine Liturgy of Saint James at the Orthodox Cathedral in Constanta. The Liturgy of Saint James is considered to be the oldest surviving liturgy developed for general use in the Church. The Jacobite Liturgy is commonly celebrated two times a year, on October 23, the…

Oct 24, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Bishop Ignatie of Huși: I’ve found genuine, simple, beautiful faith in Vaslui

‘After one year, I can say that two aspects could be considered more intense and nuanced than the intuitions I had in the West: people’s faith and the living standard in rural areas.’ ‘I’ve found a genuine, simple and beautiful faith. Without any urban sophistication, even though the act of Christian faith was born in…

Oct 24, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Thousands flock to venerate Saint Parascheva’s relics in Iasi

Thousands of devotees flocked on Sunday to the Metropolitan Cathedral in Iasi to venerate the incorrupt body of Saint Parascheva the New, considered the Patron Saint of Moldavia, over the Divine Liturgy celebrated by 22 hierarchs on the Saint’s feast day. Over 20,000 believers attended the Divine Liturgy, while other 11,000 queued to venerate the…

Oct 15, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Bishop Ignatie of Huși: Church, Referendum, Reset

Following the referendum that was organized in Romania to define marriage in the Constitution as union between a man and a woman only, His Grace Bishop Ignatie of Huși expressed his point of view in an article entitled Church, Referendum, Reset. Church, Referendum, Reset: full text Victorious or defeated The referendum has passed. It was…

Oct 11, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu