Romanian Patriarchate

The Week in Pictures: December 12 – 18, 2022

We are approaching the feast of the Nativity and in the homes of Christians, the voices of carolers are heard. We invite you to watch our Week in Pictures photo feature with snapshots captured between December 12 and 18, 2022. Last week’s most-liked Instagram post:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared…

Dec 21, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

The Basilica News Agency Director attends Christian Media Summit 2022

Aurelian Iftimiu, Director of the Basilica News Agency, attends the Christian Media Summit 2022, an event organized between December 11 and 14 in Jerusalem. The yearly summit is organized by the Israeli government Press Office. This year’s edition reunites 150 150 top-tier Christian news executives and public opinion leaders from around the world, including founders…

Dec 11, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

Yelena Popovic: My goal was to bring St Nectarios to the hearts of people. I felt his story could help them

“My goal was to bring St Nectarios to the hearts of people. I felt if I could do that, this particular story could help them”, said Yelena Popovic in an exclusive interview for Basilica.ro. “It’s a great thing to give hope.” Yelena Popovic is the director and scriptwriter of the film “Man of God”, about…

Nov 28, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

Holy Synod urges more prayer during Nativity Fast: It brings peace to our souls and world

In a pastoral letter for the first Sunday of the Nativity Fast, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church stressed that the multiplication of prayer is necessary. The Romanian hierarchs emphasised that despite the world’s current crisis, prayer has intensified in the life of the Church and the faithful. The Synodal fathers explained that…

Nov 18, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Nativity Fast begins: We bring #peaceonearth with a Christmas online campaign

Basilica.ro remains a companion for its readers and friends during the 2022 Nativity Fast with a social media Christmas campaign titled #peaceonearth. The theme was inspired by the angels who sang the first Christmas carol in Bethlehem two thousand years ago: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men”…

Nov 14, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Bishop Varlaam at Radu Voda Monastery: It is possible to love our enemies. St Nectarios demonstrates it

“Loving our enemies, at least tolerating them, is possible,” the patriarchal auxiliary bishop Varlaam of Ploiești said on Wednesday at Radu Vodă Monastery in Bucharest. “This is what Saint Nectarios shows us about those who persecuted him, reviled him and lied by spreading a great deal of slander against him, for which reason God made…

Nov 9, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Suceava: 500th anniversary of monastery church built by son of St. Stephen the Great

On Sunday, November 6, faithful and hierarchs of the Romanian Orthodox Church visited the monastery in Suceava to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the church’s consecration, the Archdiocese of Suceava reports. In 1514, Bogdan III, son of St. Stephen the Great, began the construction of the Church of the Great Martyr George at St. John…

Nov 9, 2022basilica.ro

It’s not too early to start thinking about the Nativity Fast

At the end of the Solemn Year of Prayer and the Commemorative Year of the Hesychast Saints, you have another opportunity to pray more, calm and recharge your soul with the words of the Holy Scripture and the Holy Fathers of the Church: the Nativity Fast that begins in two weeks. The Nativity Fast “is…

Nov 3, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Outgoing Georgian Ambassador Nikoloz Nikolozishvili presented with patriarchal order of Saint Anthimos the Iberian

The Order of Saint Anthimos the Iberian was handed to His Excellency Nikoloz Nikolozishvili, the outgoing ambassador of Georgia to Bucharest, by the patriarchal auxiliary bishop Varlaam of Ploiesti. As a sign of recognition for fostering solid ties between the Romanian and Georgian peoples, the order was given on behalf of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel.…

Nov 1, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Veria Metropolitan hopes to bring relics of Great Martyr Demetrius to Romania

Metropolitan Panteleimon de Veria expressed his desire to revisit Romania. The Greek hierarch said he would bring the right hand of St. Demetrius the Myrrh-gusher. Patriarch Daniel made the announcement on Thursday at the feast of Saint Demetrius the New, the Patron Saint of Bucharest. “His Eminence Metropolitan Panteleimon of Veria promised that in the…

Oct 28, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Bucharest: Veria Metropolitan presides over Divine Liturgy on feast of St Demetrius the Myrrh-gusher

On the feast day of Saint Demetrius the Myrrh-Gusher, His Eminence Metropolitan Panteleimon of Veria, Naoussa and Kampania presided over the Divine Liturgy at the outdoor altar of the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest. In his sermon, the Greek metropolitan emphasised the importance of saints to the economy of salvation. “The saints of our Church, whether…

Oct 28, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu