Messages and Addresses

Patriarch Daniel sends blessings and encouragement to students who take national exams

Patriarch Daniel of Romania sent an encouragment message on Thursday to Romania’s students who take national exams. Full text: Blessing and encouragement for exams Beloved students, dear young people, Throughout its history, which is also a cultural history, the Church has always supported and promoted schooling and the intellectual, spiritual and moral formation of man.…

Jun 15, 2023Ștefana Totorcea

Patriarch Daniel congratulates Basilica Media Centre for its rich and responsible ministry

The Feast of the Holy Trinity is also the patronal feast of the Basilica Media Centre of the Romanian Patriarchate. On this occasion, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel addressed a message of congratulations for the institution’s rich and responsible activity on Monday. “We joyfully congratulate those who work with passion and dedication in the Basilica Media…

Jun 6, 2023Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel stresses importance of prayer of parents, grandparents for children in special message to families

On the occasion of the Sunday of Parents and Children, observed in the Romanian Patriarchate on the first Sunday following June 1, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel has sent a message to Christian families. The Patriarch of Romania used his message to highlight “Christian family in the paternal love of God”, also urging parents and their…

Jun 2, 2023Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel offers three pastoral priorities for the spiritual care of the elderly

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel opened the spring session of the pastoral-missionary Conference of the Archdiocese of Bucharest with a message about the spiritual significance of the presence of the elderly in the lives of young people. The pastoral-missionary Conference gathered clergy members from throughout the Archdiocese of Bucharest at the Patriarchal Palace on May 29-30,…

May 31, 2023Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel points to 535-year-old Voronet Monastery as God’s gift and “symbol of Romanian soul”

In a message to the participants at a Symposium organised last week by Voroneț Monastery and the Archdiocese of Suceava and Radauti, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel said that the monastery, which was enlisted as UNESCO world heritage site 30 years ago, is a blessed gift from God and serves as “identity card of the beauty…

May 30, 2023Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel addresses Romanians everywhere: Great geographical distances should not produce spiritual alienation

To commemorate the Day of Romanians Everywhere, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, released an address on Sunday, May 28. In his message, Patriarch Daniel expressed his desire for Romanians to have harmonious coexistence with the citizens of the countries of adoption, “especially now when, in many places in the world, the…

May 30, 2023Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel’s message for the Coronation of King Charles III: “A true friend of the Romanian people”

His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, sent a message on Saturday for the Coronation of King Charles III, whom His Beatitude calls “a true friend of the Romanian people”. Full text: Bucharest, 6 May 2023 His Majesty King CHARLES III Your Majesty, On the occasion of the solemn moment of Your Majesty’s…

May 8, 2023Ștefana Totorcea

Patriarch of Romania expresses solidarity and compassion over school shooting in Serbia

The Patriarch of Romania expressed his compassion and solidarity in a letter to Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia. We reproduce the full text: Bucharest, 4 May 2023, His Beatitude PORFIRIJE, Archbishop of Pec, Metropolitan of Belgrad-Karlovci, Serbian Patriarch Your Beatitude, Christ is Risen! The news of the tragic event that took place in the morning of…

May 4, 2023Iustin Gheorghe

Patriarch Daniel: The Myrrhbearers are models for Christian women

In a message for the third Sunday after Pascha, April 30, 2023, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel expressed his gratitude to all Christian women for their work in the Church and society.  The Holy Myrrhbearers are models for Christian women: full text Christ is risen! On the third Sunday after the feast of the Resurrection of…

Apr 27, 2023Aurelian Iftimiu

Radio Trinitas celebrates its silver jubilee: A radio of prayer, hope and dialogue, according to Patriarch Daniel

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel congratulated the Romanian Patriarchate’s Radio station on its silver jubilee on April 17. In his message, Patriarch Daniel said that Radio Trinitas is a radio of prayer, hope and dialogue. Trinitas – for 25 years, a radio for the soul April 17, 1998, was the day when Romania’s first Orthodox radio…

Apr 25, 2023Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel sends irenic letter on the Feast of the Resurrection 2023

On the occasion of the Feast of the Resurrection 2023, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, sends an irenic letter to His Holiness Bartholomaios, the Ecumenical Patriarch.  Similar letters were sent to all the heads of Orthodox Autocephalous Churches.  Full text: Bucharest, Holy Easter 2023 His Holiness Bartholomaios, Archbishop of Constantinople –…

Apr 13, 2023Iulian Dumitraşcu