His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel blessed the reliquary containing the relics of St Eulogia of Samurcășești on Friday. During the service at the historic Chapel of St George the Great Martyr, His Beatitude highlighted the saint’s mission to preserve the Orthodox faith. “The Holy Nun-Martyr Eulogia demonstrates the important role of lay faithful, monks and nuns…
The Patriarch Justinian Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Bucharest opened the 2026–2027 academic year on Thursday with a call for students to become active witnesses of the Christian faith in contemporary society. The celebrations began with the Divine Liturgy at St Catherine Church, the university chapel, celebrated by Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Varlaam of Ploiești together…
Cernica Monastery has recently acquired a new canopy for the reliquary containing the relics of St Dumitru Stăniloae the Confessor. Beside it stands an icon depicting the saint, who the Romanian Orthodox Church canonised in 2024. Made in white, red and gold, the new decorative structure features carved columns, floral motifs and a prominent pediment. The…
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel marks 19 years on Wednesday since his enthronement as Primate of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Born in the village of Dobrești, Timiș County, on 22 July 1951 to Alexie and Stela Ciobotea, he received the name Dan-Ilie at baptism. He attended primary school in his native village before continuing his education…
Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church sent a message on Tuesday to an event at the Cotroceni National Museum in Bucharest marking the launch of REGINA – Queen, a commemorative volume dedicated to the centenary of Queen Marie of Romania’s historic visit to the United States and Canada. The volume, produced by Romania Student…
The foundation stone for the church of Goranu Parish in Râmnicu Vâlcea was blessed on Saturday. The new place of worship will be dedicated to St Gabriel of Georgia, who was recently added to the calendar of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The service was celebrated by Metropolitan Theodore of Akhaltsikhe and Tao-Klarjeti of the Georgian…
Relics believed to belong to an 18th-century neomartyr have recently been discovered in a village in the Pella region of northern Greece, according to the Orthodoxia News Agency. Her name — Chryse, meaning “golden” in Greek — matches that of the village where the relics were found, near a church among the ruins of the…
Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church has called for a missionary theology rooted in both academic study and spiritual life, saying the Church’s fundamental mission remains to proclaim the Gospel of Christ and transmit Christian faith and life to the world. In a message to an international symposium on the mission of the Church,…
The Canadian Conference of Orthodox Bishops (CCOB) delegated Bishop Ioan Casian, Romanian Orthodox Bishop of Canada, to represent the body as an observer at the Plenary Assembly of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, held from 21 September to 25 September 2026. Bishop Ioan Casian participated on Tuesday, 22 September, in the second day of…
“God grants His grace to those who possess the humility that comes from much labour,” Patriarch Daniel said on Sunday at the St George Chapel of the Patriarchal Residence, where he explained the Gospel account of the first Miraculous Catch of Fish. The Patriarch of Romania noted that the Saviour Jesus Christ did not perform…
On Thursday, 24 September 2026, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church received Stelios Angeloudis, Mayor of Thessaloniki, Greece, at the Patriarchal Residence in Bucharest. The meeting was also attended by Her Excellency Evangelia Grammatika, Ambassador of Greece to Romania; Vasilis Gakis, Deputy Mayor of Thessaloniki for Culture, Tourism Development and Intermunicipal Cooperation;…
On Wednesday, 30 September 2026, the Romanian Orthodox Church will mark 19 years since His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel’s enthronement. On this occasion, the Divine Liturgy will be celebrated from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. at the Patriarchal Cathedral. Following the Divine Liturgy, at 11:00 a.m., a Te Deum service will be officiated at the Patriarchal Cathedral,…
Romanian public broadcaster TVR reported from Cartal, in Ukraine’s Odesa region, where Romanian children were able to return to a Romanian-language school class that local Ukrainian authorities had closed just four days after the school year began. Following intervention by Romanian authorities at the highest level, the decision was reversed, and the children were able…
Deacon Dr Rareș Ionașcu is a psychiatrist and serves the Romanian Orthodox Church in the diaspora. He practises psychiatry in France, in the Angoulême area, and serves as a deacon at the Romanian Orthodox Parish of St Joseph and St John of San Francisco in Bordeaux. Actively engaged in dialogue between medical science and Christian…
Romania’s Ministry of Education and Research has published the syllabus for Orthodox Christian Religion for the 2030 Baccalaureate examination. The document outlines the competencies and content students must prepare for the exam, Edupedu reports. The syllabus for Orthodox Christianity is structured around competencies aimed both at knowledge and expression of religious identity and at students’…
Archbishop Calinic of Suceava and Rădăuți called for reconciliation with others on the International Day of Peace, saying: “Peace cannot bear fruit in a soul that cultivates its own righteousness, because a person who is at peace is not one who considers themselves faultless, but one who knows how to recognise their own share of…
More and more people feel lonely, even within their families or communities. Relationships require attention, humility, responsibility, and effort to survive, while family unity can erode not only through major crises but also through a lack of dialogue, resentment, and unrepaired wounds. We spoke about loneliness, family life, the formation of adolescents and the role…
St Sophrony the Athonite was born in Moscow on 22 September 1896 and was baptised Sergei Semyonovich Sakharov. He studied Fine Arts in Moscow, searching for an ideal of beauty that transcended the purely aesthetic. During the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, he was arrested twice and imprisoned at the Lubyanka, but in 1921 he managed…
An international team from five countries, comprising architects, designers, filmmakers and conservation specialists, is seeking to save an approximately 1,100-year-old Georgian church in north-eastern Turkey that is at risk of collapse. According to a press release from Spanish architect and project coordinator Tassilo de la Torre Schönborn, Nuka Sakdari Church is in Artvin Province and…
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniil of Bulgaria will visit Jerusalem and Jordan from 25 to 30 September, during which he will meet Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem. Patriarch Daniil’s delegation will include Metropolitan Ioan of Varna and Veliki Preslav, Metropolitan Seraphim of Nevrokop and Bishop Gerasim of Melnik, Secretary-General of the Holy Synod. The Patriarchate of…