The Iași Byzantine Music Festival will organise, for the first time, the International Symposium “The Church as a Singing Family in the Christian Tradition”, dedicated to the communal role of church music and the relationship…
The Romanian Orthodox Church is getting ready for the inaugural liturgical observance of the Synaxis of Romanian Women Saints, a newly added feast to the Orthodox calendar following the Holy Synod’s decision on March 27,…
“You will receive joy so long as you turn to Saint George with love,” said Archimandrite Alexios, Abbot of Xenophontos Monastery on Mount Athos. The Athonite abbot highlighted the significance of the forthcoming bringing of…
Pantocrator Monastery in Teleorman County, southern Romania, will again mark its patronal feast in a special way this year, as the honourable skull of the Great Martyr George the Trophy-Bearer will be brought from the…
The abbot of Darvari Monastery, Protosyncellus Arsenie Irimiea, is calling on Bucharest residents to attend, on the evening of August 14, an all-night vigil followed by the Sacrament of Holy Unction, on the occasion of…
The left hand of Saint Haralambos, a treasured relic from the Mega Spileo Monastery in Greece, will be brought to Romania for veneration at the Diocesan Cathedral in Alexandria between August 29 and September 1,…
The local proclamation of the canonisation of Saints Heraclius and Alexander of Bessarabia will take place on August 3 in Chișinău, the Metropolis of Bessarabia has announced. The solemn event will follow the hierarchical Divine…
The local canonization of Saints Paisius and Cleopas will take place on August 7 at Sihăstria Monastery, Neamț County, during a series of festivities dedicated to local saints. The events will begin on August 5…
The Very Reverend Archimandrite Ephraim Koutsou, Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos, will bring the honourable skull of Saint John Chrysostom to Bucharest in July. This privileged occasion will…
On Holy Thursday, April 17, 2025, just days before the 140th anniversary of the recognition of its autocephaly, the Romanian Orthodox Church will consecrate the Holy and Great Chrism for the 23rd time. The event,…