Romanian Patriarchate

November 2017 Basilica.ro Review available for download

We released our second edition of the Basilica.ro monthly review. The November 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 to download, read and distribute the…

Dec 6, 2017Sorin Ioniţe

Romania’s last King Michael I dies at 96

Romania’s former King Michael I died on Tuesday at age 96 at his Swiss home, the Royal House announced. On November 8, the Royal House had said that King Michael was in suffering and Princess Margareta and Prince Radu were at his bedside on the occasion of the great Feast of Saint Archangels Michael and…

Dec 5, 2017Gheorghe Anghel

Centenary of the restoration of the Russian Patriarchate | The delegation of the Romanian Orthodox Church departs to Moscow

Saturday morning, the delegation of the Romanian Orthodox Church led by Patriarch Daniel departed to Russia. The Patriarch of Romania will attend the celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the re-establishment of the Patriarchate in the Russian Orthodox Church, on 2-5 december 2017. This is the second visit paid by His Beatitude Daniel in Russia…

Dec 2, 2017Gheorghe Anghel

Georgian Parliament Chairman visits St Anthimos Monastery in Bucharest

On Wednesday, the Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia, Irakli Kobakhidze, visited Saint Anthimos Monastery in Bucharest. His Grace Varlaam of Ploiesti, Assistant Bishop to the Patriarch, welcomed the Georgian delegation at the monastery. The Georgian official laid a Georgian flag floral wreath at the statue of Saint Anthimos the Iberian (or Georgian) built in…

Nov 16, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

Feast of St John Chrysostom: Bishop Timotei of Prahova celebrates Divine Liturgy at the National Cathedral Chapel (VIDEO)

On the feast day of St John Chrysostom, November 13, His Grace Bishop Timotei of Prahova celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the outdoor altar of the National Cathedral Chapel. Numerous believers attended the patronal feast of the Chapel and venerated the holy relics of St John Chrysostom and St Andrew the First Called, whose relics…

Nov 16, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

AFP: How churches were lifted to safety in communist Bucharest

BUCHAREST (AFP) – A bit bruised but still standing, old Orthodox churches can be found around Bucharest, having escaped the frenzied demolition of the Romanian capital in the 1980s ordered by ex-communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. At least 10 jewels of Romania’s religious heritage from the 16th to 19th centuries survived due to an engineering tour de force:…

Nov 11, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

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