In this year’s pastoral encyclical for Holy Pascha, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel highlights the mystery of Christ’s Resurrection noting that the faith in the resurrection ‘helps us not to lose our hope in the face…
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel celebrates on 4 March 2020 his 30th anniversary of episcopal consecration. Patriarch Daniel, the sixth leader of the Romanian Orthodox Church, was born on 22 July 1951, in Dobreşti village, Bara commune,…
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel chaired the Monastic Assembly of the Archdiocese of Bucharest at the Patriarchate’s Palace on Thursday, October 10, 2019. In his opening remarks, the Patriarch explained the five dimensions of this year’s…
Thirty eight hierarchs assembled at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest on Monday to celebrate the Divine Liturgy and attend the Te Deum service marking the 12th anniversary of the enthronement of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel…
On the last day of the summer school holiday, Patriarch Daniel pointed out that ‘spiritual and intellectual formation is the greatest richness of man, a treasure no one can take away from us.’ ‘What we…
Message of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, at the Ecumenical International Conference on Orthodox Spirituality in Bose, 4-6 September 2019. Please find below the full text of His Beatitude’s message in…
The Patriarch of Romania on Monday met with three hundred graduate students of the ‘Patriarch Justinian’ Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Bucharest and reminded that every one of them is a missionary. The students took…
On his return flight from Romania, Pope Francis expressed his appreciation for the Romanian Patriarch Daniel. ‘You have a great patriarch,’ the pope told the Romanian journalists June 2, spending about 35 minutes with reporters…
After the historic meeting at the Patriarchal Palace, Patriarch Daniel and Pope Francis visited the National Cathedral in Bucharest. In his speech, Patriarch Daniel presented to Pope Francis a brief history of the National Cathedral.…
During the 2019 Spring Clergy Conference on Monday, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel listed seven proposals to improve the current situation of the villages in Romania. Twinning programs between generous urban parishes and poor parishes in…