Romanian Patriarchate

October 2017 Basilica.ro Review available for download

We are happy to announce the release of our first edition of the Basilica.ro monthly review. The October 2017 edition is now available in colour pdf format for downloading and local distribution. Each monthly edition will feature select articles that had been published on the Basilica News Agency website during the previous month. Feel free…

Nov 2, 2017Sorin Ioniţe

HB Ilia II of Georgia: Let us become worthy of being called the successors of those who accepted their martyrdom in the period of the Atheist regime

Address of His Beatitude Ilia II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, read out by His Grace Vakhtang, Bishop of Nikortsmind, at the Solemn Meeting of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Bucharest, Saturday 28 October 2017: Your  Beatitudes, I wholeheartedly greet you, every participant of the conference and the audience present. The issue which is to…

Oct 30, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu

Solemn Meeting of the Holy Synod | HB Anastasios about The Church of Albania: The terrible trials made it look like desolate land

Adress of His Beatitude Anastasios, Archbishop of Tirana, Dürres and All Albania, at the Solemn Session of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Bucharest, Saturday 28 October 2017. Difficulties of Confessing the Orthodox Faith during Communism in Albania and the importance of religious freedom today “For it has been granted to you that…

Oct 30, 2017Sorin Ioniţe

Metropolitan Rastislav: Like Jairus, the generation of martyrs and confessors entreated God for the Church that seemed dead

During atheism, the generation of martyrs and confessors was crying to God unceasingly, day and night, asking Him with faith, hope and love to bring back to life Christ’s Church, a Church that seemed to be dead, His Beatitude Metropolitan Rastislav said during his homily on Sunday. His Beatitude Rastislav, Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church…

Oct 29, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel chairs solemn session of the Holy Synod marking the Patriarchate’s solemn and commemorative year 2017

Saturday, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel chaired the solemn session of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church to mark the Patriarchate’s solemn and commemorative themes of the year. The Romanian Patriarchate declared the 2017 a Solemn Year of the Holy Icons, of Iconographers and church painters, and a Commemorative Year of Patriarch Justinian and…

Oct 28, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

What did the Patriarchs of Russia and Romania discuss during their private meeting?

Thursday evening, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and Patriarch Daniel of Romania had a private meeting at the Patriarchal Palace in Bucharest. During the meeting, the two Primates of Orthodox Churches exchanged their views on church issues and the relations between the two Patriarchates, the Press Service of the Russian Patriarchate reports. His Beatitude Patriarch Kirill…

Oct 27, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

Solemn commemorative act of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church (English/Russian)

Proclaimed today, 27 October 2017, during the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest: To the beloved clergy, the pious monastic community and the Orthodox faithful from the Romanian Patriarchate, Grace, peace, and joy from God, and from Us, hierarchical blessings! Venerating the saints, honouring the heroes of the nation, the hierarchs, the clergy,…

Oct 27, 2017Gheorghe Anghel

Four Primates of Autocephalous Orthodox Churches concelebrate the Divine Liturgy on the feast of St Demetrius the New

Friday morning thousands of believers prayerfully honoured Saint Demetrius the New, Protector of Bucharest and of the Patriarchal Cathedral. His Beatitude Russian Patriarch Kirill presided over the festive Divine Liturgy in the celebration of Their Beatitudes Patriarch Daniel of Romania, Archbishop Anastasios of Albania and Metropolitan Rastislav of Czech Lands and Slovakia. After the gospel…

Oct 27, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

Russian Orthodox Church Delegation received with polychronion | Holy relics of St Seraphim of Sarov arrive at the Romanian Patriarchate

Thursday evening the delegations of the Churches of Russia and Romania arrived on the Hill of the Patriarchate. His Eminence Archbishop Sergiy of Solnetchnogorsk carried the reliquary containing a particle of the holy relics of Saint Seraphim of Sarov to the outdoor altar of the Patriarchal Cathedral. The convoy was followed by the Patriarchs of…

Oct 27, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

Russian Patriarch arrives in Bucharest on historic visit

Thursday, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia has arrived in Romania. The plane bringing the Russian delegation, headed by Patriarch Kirill, landed on Henri Coandă International Airport at 16:43. This is the first visit of a Russian Patriarch in post-comunist Romania and the first visit of Patriarh Kirill in our country, since his election…

Oct 26, 2017Gheorghe Anghel

His Beatitude Met. Rastislav of the Czech and Slovak Church arrives in Bucharest on his first visit to Romania

His Beatitude Rastislav, Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church of Czech Lands and Slovakia, arrived in Romania on Thursday. This is His Beatitude’s first visit to Romania as Head of the Czech and Slovak Church and it takes place during the celebrations marking the feast of Saint Demetrius the New, Protector of Bucharest. The Metropolitan of…

Oct 26, 2017Iulian Dumitraşcu