Romanian Patriarchate

Romania national heroes commemorated at Cross Memorial on Caraiman Peak

His Grace Bishop Varlaam of Ploiesti on Saturday officiated a memorial service for the rest of the souls of Romania’s national heroes at the Cross Memorial on Caraiman Peak. The Heroes’ Cross is a monument built between 1926 and 1928 on Caraiman Peak at an altitude of 2,291 m located in Romania, in the Bucegi…

Sep 19, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

August 2018 Basilica.ro Review available for download

We released this year’s eighth issue of the Basilica.ro monthly review. The August 2018 edition is now available in colour pdf format for downloading and local distribution. Basilica.ro Review available for download Each monthly edition will feature select articles that had been published on the Basilica News Agency website during the previous month. Feel free to download, read and distribute…

Sep 12, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

Patriarch of Jerusalem to lead celebrations on National Cathedral’s first patronal feast

The first patronal feast of the Romanian People’s Salvation Cathedral will be celebrated on November 30, 2018, on the feast day of Saint Andrew the First Called, who is also the Cathedral’s patron saint and the protector of Romania. The celebrations, including the Divine Liturgy, will be led by His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of…

Aug 25, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Bishop Varlaam recommends St Constantine Brancoveanu’s attitude to those who feel their religious freedom is constrained

His Grace Bishop Varlaam of Ploiesti spoke Wednesday about Saint Constantine Brancoveanu, presenting him as a model to those who are confronted with the limitation or prohibition of public manifestation of religion. The Assistant Bishop to the Patriarch addressed the believers attending the Divine Liturgy at St George the New Church in Bucharest, the last…

Aug 17, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

July 2018 Basilica.ro Review available for download

We released this year’s seventh issue of the Basilica.ro monthly review. The July 2018 edition is now available in colour pdf format for downloading and local distribution. Basilica.ro Review available for download Each monthly edition will feature select articles that had been published on the Basilica News Agency website during the previous month. Feel free to download, read and distribute the…

Aug 8, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

Romanian Patriarchate raises money for Greece wildfires victims

Romanian Patriarchate urges all its Dioceses to financially support he victims of the catastrophic wildfires that took place in recent days in Greece. Press release of the Romanian Patriarchate: As a token of brotherly communion and solidarity, the Romanian Patriarchate urges all its Dioceses at home and abroad to financially support, according to their possibilities,…

Jul 26, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

Photo Gallery – The National Cathedral, four months before consecration

Four months before its consecration, the works at the National Cathedral are being carried out at a fast pace. The consecration of the cathedral is part of a national project dedicated to the Centennial of the 1918 Great Union and it will be officiated by His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, on Sunday, November 25, 2018.…

Jul 25, 2018Mircea Florescu

The National Cathedral is the proof of the miraculous work of the Prodromitissa Icon of the Mother of God: Bishop Varlaam

In his homily delivered Thursday at the Chapel of the National Cathedral, His Grace Bishop Varlaam of Ploiesti referred to the advanced stage of the construction works at the National Cathedral noting that ‘this edifice is the proof of the miraculous work of the Prodromitissa wonderworking icon.’ ‘This is how we can explain how in…

Jul 13, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Abbots of Great Lavra, Prodromos Skete celebrate Divine Liturgy at patronal feast of National Cathedral’s Chapel

Abbot Prodromos of Great Lavra and Abbot Athanasios of the Prodromos Skete on Mount Athos celebrated Thursday the Divine Liturgy at the patronal feast of the National Cathedral’s Chapel in Bucharest in honour of the Prodromitissa Icon of the Mother of God. The Divine Liturgy was presided over by His Grace Bishop Varlaam of Ploiesti,…

Jul 13, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

VIDEO: All-night Vigil in honour of the Prodromitissa Icon of the Mother of God in the presence of Athonite Abbots

Elder Athanasios Prodromites, the abbot of the Romanian Skete of the Honourable Forerunner, St John the Baptist, on Mount Athos, led Wednesday the All-night Vigil service in honour of the Prodromitissa Icon of the Mother of God at the National Cathedral’s Chapel in Bucharest. The service was held with the chorostasia of Elder Prodromos Lavriotes,…

Jul 13, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

VIDEO: Byzantine Choir Tronos opens celebrations of National Cathedral’s Chapel with special concert

The Byzantine Choir Tronos of the Romanian Patriarchate performed Wednesday a special concert dedicated to the Prodromitissa Icon of the Mother of God in the opening of the celebrations of the National Cathedral’s Chapel. The concert directed by Archdeacon and Protopsaltes Mihail Bucă included various hymns dedicated to the Most Holy Theotokos that were performed…

Jul 13, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu