Father Ionuț Timoce, a Transylvanian parish priest, offered his parish house to family with eight children recently left homeless after the owner ended their tenancy by selling the house. Reghin Deanery got involved in providing a home to the Balazs family. The eight children are aged 4 to 18, their father is a taxi driver…
In this year’s Christmas message, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel emphasizes that Christmas urges us to pay more attention to children whose parents have gone to work abroad. Patriarch Daniel’s Christmas Message 2021: full text The Feast of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ or Christmas announces to us the humble and generous love of…
The Holy Prophet Daniel, a pastor for his people during the Babylonian exile, is the spiritual protector of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, who leads the Romanian Orthodox Church during the most extensive spread of Romanians on all meridians of the globe. Intrinsically, the Prophet Daniel is a source of inspiration for the many initiatives coordinated…
The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church met on Thursday, December 16, 2021, for a working session at the “Patriarch Teoctist” Great Hall of the Palace of the Patriarchate under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel. The Holy Synod elected by secret ballot His Grace Assistant Bishop Nestor of Hunedoara as new Bishop…
Patriarchal Vicar Ephraim (Maalouli) of Seleucia (Antiochian Patriarchate) was enthroned last Friday as the new Metropolitan of Aleppo in a ceremony presided by Patriarch John X of Antioch at Aleppo’s “Prophet Elijah” Cathedral. The new metropolitan honoured his mother at the end of the ceremony by offering her his archimandrite cross. Accompanied by the cheers…
In his speech on Sunday at the Orthodox Cathedral of Baia Mare, His Grace Bishop Justin of Maramureș and Sătmar spoke about the spiritual and historical reality of the Feast of the Nativity, which contrasts with the new trends of limiting the religious message. Bishop Justin spoke to the faithful about the dangers of false…
Many migrants, mainly Afghans, transit Romania’s western city of Timisoara on their way to the West. The Orthodox Church and local organizations offer them help as winter draws near. His Eminence Metropolitan Ioan of Banat has constantly donated hundreds of kilograms of food for migrants. The metropolitan said that he saw Romanians in the same…
His Grace Nestor was elected on Thursday by the Holy Synod in the dignity of Bishop of Deva and Hunedoara, succeeding Bishop Gurie Georgiu of blessed memory. His Grace received the vote of the synodal members for the second time this year, after being elected Assistant Bishop to the Diocese of Deva on February 25.…
The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church during its working session on Thursday elected by secret ballot His Grace Assistant Bishop Nestor Dinculeana as new Bishop of Deva and Hunedoara, succeeding Bishop Gurie Georgiu of blessed memory, who reposed in October. Since February, His Grace Nestor has been the Assistant Bishop to the Diocese…
Hieromartyr Eleutherius, Bishop of Illyria, was born in Rome in a family that embraced the Orthodox faith through the preaching of the Holy Apostle Paul and was educated a Christian, especially by his mother, Anthia. “This Eleutherius grew up in the porch of the church, but the church, at that time, was not like this…
His Grace Bishop Sofronie of Oradea attended the festivities marking 100 years of diplomatic relations between Romania and Japan organized at the Medieval Fortress of Oradea by the Embassy of Japan to Romania on Friday, December 10, 2021. The event was attended by His Excellency Hiroshi Ueda, Japan’s Ambassador to Romania, and by local officials.…
The Archdiocese of Timisoara starts its most important project next year. A multifunctional complex for social services and educational, cultural and physical activities will be built in Timisoara. The AfiOM project – Timișoara Philanthropic Multiplex will include a youth centre, a gym, a maternity home for women in pregnancy crisis, a kindergarten and an Orthodox…
One Orthodox community in the Republic of Moldova is experiencing the joy of finally having their own church. And the Church of Sts. Seraphim of Sarov, Catherine, and John (Maximovitch) in the Chișinău suburb of Floreni was built in just 40 days. His Eminence Metropolitan Petru of Bessarabia blessed the church with holy water on…
On Tuesday, His Grace Assistant Bishop Timotei of Prahova celebrated the Divine Liturgy and a memorial service at Radu Vodă Monastery in Bucharest, marking the feast of Saint Philemon, the patron saint of actors. In his sermon, the assistant bishop to the Bucharest Archdiocese referred to the Saint’s life. Being asked by a Christian that…
Converted to Orthodoxy in 1990, a French octogenarian received the monastic tonsure at Văratic Monastery after fifteen years of preparation. Under the mantle of the Abbess Iosefina Giosanu, Françoise Détouche received the name of Saint Radegund (+587), a Thuringian princess and Frankish queen, who founded a monastery at Poitiers, who is revered as a Saint…
Monday, December 13, 2021 marks the 38th anniversary of the repose of Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann, Dean of Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and one of the 20th century’s leading Orthodox Christian theologians. Father Alexander was born in Estonia in 1921 to a family of Russian emigres. He spent his youth in France, where he completed his…
“St. Parascheva” parish in the city of Brăila, on the Lower Danube, offered medical devices and gifts for mothers at the local maternity. The donation amounted to 8,000 Euros. The medical institution received a sonographer, a ventilation device kit and special stands for medical equipment. The parish did not neglect the mothers who were at…
Speaking at an International Symposium dedicated to the pastoral care of Romanians abroad last week, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel stressed that “the Mother Church supports and encourages her spiritual sons and daughters from abroad and understands the difficulties they face in their struggle to ensure a better future.” The Symposium combined a “live” in-person event…
His Grace Assistant Bishop Damaschin of Dorna became the first Orthodox hierarch to serve in the chapel inside the Cacica Salt Mine, sculpted by Polish miners 29 meters underground. The hierarch celebrated the Divine Liturgy together with an assembly of clerics, including Father Răzvan Cîmpulungeanu, missionary priest of Suceava II Deanery, and Archdeacon Bogdan-Mihai Hrișcă,…
The local synod of the Metropolis of Transylvania announced the two nominees for the next bishop of the Diocese of Deva and Hunedoara. The nominees are: His Grace Assistant Bishop Nestor of Hunedoara and Archimandrite Gherontie Ciupe, administrative vicar. The Metropolitan Synod of Transylvania met for a working session at the metropolitan residence in Sibiu…