International

Patriarch Ilia proposes building seminary where relics of St. Maximus the Confessor Repose

According to His Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia, he has spent a lot of time contemplating the idea of building a seminary and hotel in Lechkumi in northwestern Georgia, where the relics of St. Maximus the Confessor are kept, to help increase the number of foreign visitors coming to the area to venerate the…

Oct 31, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu

HB Metropolitan Rastislav on the difficulties of confessing the Orthodox faith during communism and the importance of Religious Freedom today

Address by His Beatitude Rastislav, Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia, delivered during the solemn session of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church, 28 October 2017: Difficulties of confessing the Orthodox faith during Communism and the Importance of Religious Freedom today Your Holiness, Your Beatitudes, Your Eminences and…

Oct 30, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

Metropolitan Rastislav: Like Jairus, the generation of martyrs and confessors entreated God for the Church that seemed dead

During atheism, the generation of martyrs and confessors was crying to God unceasingly, day and night, asking Him with faith, hope and love to bring back to life Christ’s Church, a Church that seemed to be dead, His Beatitude Metropolitan Rastislav said during his homily on Sunday. His Beatitude Rastislav, Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church…

Oct 29, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

His Beatitude Met. Rastislav of the Czech and Slovak Church celebrates his name day

His Beatitude Father Rastislav, the Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands and Slovakia, celebrates on 28 October 28 2017 the spiritual protector: Saint Rastislav, the Prince of Moravia. Rastislav or Rostislav, also known as St. Rastislav, was the second known ruler of Moravia (846–870). Upon his initiative two brothers, Cyril and Methodius…

Oct 28, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu

What did the Patriarchs of Russia and Romania discuss during their private meeting?

Thursday evening, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and Patriarch Daniel of Romania had a private meeting at the Patriarchal Palace in Bucharest. During the meeting, the two Primates of Orthodox Churches exchanged their views on church issues and the relations between the two Patriarchates, the Press Service of the Russian Patriarchate reports. His Beatitude Patriarch Kirill…

Oct 27, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Kirill addresses Romanian people: ‘Your piety is a witness that Romanian Orthodoxy is flourishing today’

Homily by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia during the Divine Liturgy celebrated on the feast of Saint Demetrius the New, 27 October 2017. Your Beatitudes, Your Eminences and Your Graces, Reverend fathers, beloved brothers and sisters,   Today we commemorate Venerable Demetrius Basarabov, the heavenly protector of the city of Bucharest, and during…

Oct 27, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

Russian Orthodox Church Delegation received with polychronion | Holy relics of St Seraphim of Sarov arrive at the Romanian Patriarchate

Thursday evening the delegations of the Churches of Russia and Romania arrived on the Hill of the Patriarchate. His Eminence Archbishop Sergiy of Solnetchnogorsk carried the reliquary containing a particle of the holy relics of Saint Seraphim of Sarov to the outdoor altar of the Patriarchal Cathedral. The convoy was followed by the Patriarchs of…

Oct 27, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

Russian Patriarch arrives in Bucharest on historic visit

Thursday, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia has arrived in Romania. The plane bringing the Russian delegation, headed by Patriarch Kirill, landed on Henri Coandă International Airport at 16:43. This is the first visit of a Russian Patriarch in post-comunist Romania and the first visit of Patriarh Kirill in our country, since his election…

Oct 26, 2017Gheorghe Anghel

A profile of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia

His Beatitude Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia (secular name Vladimir M. Gundyaev) was born on November 20, 1946, in Leningrad. After graduation from school, he entered the Leningrad Seminary and later the Leningrad Theological Academy, from which he graduated cum laude in 1970. On April 3, 1969, Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov) of Leningrad and Novgorod tonsured…

Oct 26, 2017Gheorghe Anghel

His Beatitude Anastasios. A profile of the restorer of Orthodoxy in Albania

The current primate of the Albanian Orthodox Church has in fact re-established the institution which he leads, which had been destroyed for 23 years by the communist regime that proclaimed Albania an atheist state. His Beatitude Anastasios Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, was born on November 4, 1929, in Piraeus, Greece. Archbishop Anastasios…

Oct 26, 2017Sorin Ioniţe

Biography of His Beatitude Rastislav. The youngest among the leaders of the Autocephalous Orthodox Churches

His Beatitude Rastislav, Archbishop of Prešov, Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia participates these days at the Feast of the Saint Demetrius 2017. Metropolitan Rastislav is the youngest of the leaders of the Autocephalous Orthodox Churches. Metropolitan Rastislav (by his secular name Rastislav Gont) was born on the 25 January…

Oct 25, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu