Romanian Patriarchate

Notre Dame fire: Romanian Patriarchate expresses sorrow, hope for quick restoration

The Romanian Patriarchate has received with great sorrow the news regarding the fire that destroyed the roof of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, a religious, historic, and architectural monument of inestimable value, a symbol of European Christianity, well-known throughout the world and visited every year by millions of pilgrims and tourists. The venerable emblem of the…

Apr 16, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

Georgian PM visits St Anthimos Monastery in Bucharest

During his stay in Romania, the Prime-minister of Georgia Mamuka Bakhtadze visited the monastic settlement founded in Bucharest by Saint Anthimos the Iberian. The Georgian PM was welcomed at the Monastery by the Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Varlaam of Ploiesti on Monday, April 15, 2019. After accompanying PM Bakhtadze to the monastery’s main church and museum,…

Apr 16, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

New deacon ordained as new hope for an enhanced work at Bucharest parish

The Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Varlaam of Ploiesti on Sunday performed the ordination to the diaconate of Basilica News Agency’s Editor Iulian Dumitrascu noting that he is ‘a hope for an enhanced work in a parish that is already distinguished by a multitude of spiritual and social works’. The ordination was performed during the Divine Liturgy…

Apr 15, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

National Cathedral consecration attendance statistics

The Chancellery of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church published a report presenting information about the attendance of believers at the consecration of the National Cathedral in Bucharest, giving the exact names of parishes and group attendants. As estimated by the Romanian Gendarmerie, approximately 150,000 people visited the National Cathedral and venerated the…

Apr 15, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

International Meeting of Orthodox Youth 2019: Program

Over 2500 Orthodox young people from all across the world will gather this September in Romania’s southern city of Craiova for a four-day event aiming to foster the three cardinal Christian values of faith, hope and love. Opening ceremony The opening ceremony will take place on Thursday evening, Sept. 5, at Mihai Viteazul Square, where…

Apr 11, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

The Week in Pictures: April 1 – 7, 2019

Please find a selection of the best photos from last week in the Orthodox world.

Apr 8, 2019Raluca-Emanuela Ene

Thousands expected to take part in Palm Sunday Procession in Bucharest

Thousands of believers are expected to take part in the traditional Palm Sunday Procession across the streets of Bucharest that will take place on the eve of the Feast of the Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem, April 20, 2019. It has become an annual tradition for Romanian hierarchs, clergy, monastics and believers to carry…

Apr 6, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

The Week in Pictures: March 18 – 24, 2019

Please find a selection of the best photos from last week in the Orthodox world.

Mar 27, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

‘The Good to Know’ online magazine: March 2019

The March 2019 issue of ‘The Good to Know’ online magazine of the Basilica News Agency is now available for download. This project initially started in 2017 was named ‘The Basilica monthly review,’ and was published at the beginning of every month until its rebranding this year. What you are about to look through is the second…

Mar 19, 2019Sorin Ioniţe

‘I post as many pictures as possible, therefore I am’: Holy Synod warns against idolatry on social media

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church cautioned that in the ‘era of videocracy’ social networks give birth to idolatrous, narcissistic tendencies, they weaken human communion, and the human person is not valued at true value as icon or image of God. In their pastoral letter for the Sunday of Orthodoxy, the Romanian hierarchs…

Mar 14, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

MEP Traian Ungureanu meets with religion journalists from Romania

Traian Ungureanu, MEP for Romania, met with a group of twenty religion journalists from Romania at the European Parliament in Brussels on Friday, March 8, 2019. Mr. Ungureanu spoke about the efforts made by Romania’s representatives to defend the country’s interests in the European institutions. Traian Ungureanu pointed to the importance of understanding the benefits…

Mar 14, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu