Dioceses

UK Ambassador to Romania lays flowers to tomb of St Stephen the Great

Visiting the Putna Monastery together with his family was the Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Romania Paul Brummell who paid his respects to Prince Saint Stephen the Great. Ambassador Brummell on Wednesday laid flowers to the tomb of Saint Stephen the Great (d. 1504), ruler prince of Moldavia who is renowned in Europe for…

Apr 7, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Metropolitan Joseph Naniescu, Lay-ascetic George Lazăr, officially declared Saints by Patriarch Daniel in Iași

Metropolitan Joseph Naniescu and the lay-ascetic George Lazăr were proclaimed Saints of the Church by Patriarch Daniel in a ceremony at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Iași. After celebrating the Divine Liturgy on the Feast of Annunciation, His Eminence Archbishop Ioachim of Roman and Bacău read out the synodal tomos on the glorification of Metropolitan Joseph…

Mar 26, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

VIDEO: Bp Damaschin of Dorna officiates final memorial service for Metropolitan Joseph Naniescu, Lay-Ascetic George Lazăr

His Grace Damaschin of Dorna, Assistant Bishop to the Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuţi, officiated Saturday evening, March 24, the final memorial service for the soon-to-be officially proclaimed saints Metropolitan Joseph Naniescu of Moldavia and the Lay-Ascetic George Lazăr. The formal Rite of Glorification begins with a final Memorial Service for the person about to…

Mar 26, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Sainthood of Metr. Joseph Naniescu, Lay-Ascetic George Lazăr to be officially proclaimed on March 25 in Iași

The Doxologia Orthodox portal of the Metropolis of Moldavia and Bukovina announced the date when the sainthood of the two newly-canonized Metropolitan Joseph Naniescu and lay-ascetic George Lazăr will be officially proclaimed. The ceremony will take place at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Iași on the feast of the Annunciation, March 25, 2018. The Holy Synod…

Mar 7, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Good deed: Orthodox villagers from Bihor County buy house for family with 9 children

At the initiative of local parish priests, faithful from the northwestern Romanian villages of Paleu and Oşorhei took up a collection over the course of the previous year to buy a home for a family with 9 children from the nearby village of Parhida. The house was blessed on Sunday by Frs. Cosmin Popa and…

Mar 3, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

The Orthodox Youth event of the year: International Meeting for ‘Unity. Faith. Nation’ at Sibiu

‘Unity. Faith. Nation’ is the motto under which 2,500 young people from Romania and abroad will meet in Sibiu during the fifth edition of the International Meeting of Orthodox Youth (ITO) on 6-9 September 2018. The ITO 2018 event was launched officially at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Sibiu, on the International Day of Orthodox Youth,…

Feb 7, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

In pictures: Theology professors, students in Bucharest prayerfully celebrate the Three Holy Hierarchs

The professors and students of the Patriarch Justinian Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Bucharest on Tuesday prayerfully celebrated the feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs, the patrons of theological education. Celebrating the Divine Liturgy at the Faculty’s St Catherine Chapel was His Grace Bishop Varlaam of Ploiesti, who conveyed the blessings and congratulations of Patriarch…

Jan 31, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

‘Our whole life should be a permanent and sincere repentance,’ Metropolitan Andrei of Cluj says at Vatopedi Monastery

His Eminence Andrei, Metropolitan of Cluj, Maramures and Salaj, celebrated the Sunday Divine Liturgy at the katholikon of the Athonite Vatopedi Monastery, during which he spoke about our earthly existence stressing that ‘our whole life should be a permanent and sincere repentance.’ Allegedly built by St Constantine the Great, the Vatopedi Monastery received much support…

Jan 26, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

National Poet Mihai Eminescu prayerfully commemorated at Bellu Cemetery

Romania’s National Poet Mihai Eminescu was prayerfully commemorated during the Divine Liturgy celebrated on Monday at the Bellu Cemetery Chapel in Bucharest on his 168th birth anniversary. Mihai Eminescu, born on January 15, 1850 in the village of Ipotesti, near Botosani, in North-Eastern Romania, is considered Romania’s greatest poet. He was also a novelist and…

Jan 17, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Hierarchs, faithful prayerfully celebrate St Gregory the Decapolite at Bistrița Monastery

On Monday, hundreds of believers from all across Romania attended the celebrations of Saint Gregory the Decapolite at Bistrița Monastery, where his holy relics are kept. On this occasion, eleven Romanian hierarchs concelebrated at the Divine Liturgy, the diocesan website reports. This year we celebrate the 520th anniversary of the placing of the holy relics…

Nov 21, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

Neamț priest builds house for 9-children family

A new home worth 70,000 lei ($17,750) was built and donated to a family with nine children by the parish priest in Timișești, Neamț County, Romania. The home was recently blessed by Metropolitan Teofan of Moldavia and Bucovina. Fr. Petru Gavriloaia managed, with the support of the local faithful and authorities, to build a new…

Nov 17, 2017Andrei Pau