The media representatives of the Orthodox Dioceses within the borders of Romania have participated Thursday and Friday (03-04 March 2016) in a meeting with the representatives of the Basilica Press Centre of the Romanian Patriarchate. The event took place at the Dumitru Stăniloae Centre for Continuing Education in Bucharest. Thursday, on the first day of…
We have learned with great concern about the aggravated health conditions of His Majesty King Michael I of Romania, a symbolic personality of the history of the Romanian people and of our national dignity. Therefore, we pray God, the Physician of the souls and bodies, to relieve his suffering and grant him good health. At…
This year’s edition of the March for Life will take place on March 26, in more than 100 cities in Romania and the Republic of Moldova. The March for Life has become a tradition during the last years and it has the support of the Romanian Patriarchate, and the blessing of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch…
17 priests from the Archdiocese of Bucharest were invested spiritual fathers on Wednesday, 02 March 2016. His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Ortodox Church, officiated the service in the historical Parekklesion of the Patriarchal Residence dedicated to St Great Martyr George. The spiritual father is a doctor who heals spiritual wounds In his word,…
On 1 March 2016, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel received His Excellency Mr Mile Vasić, Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Romania, on a presentation visit. Mr Ambassador expressed his gratitude to have been received at the Romanian Patriarchate and made a brief statistic presentation of the religious configuration of his country, which has overcome the…
Sunday, 28 February 2016, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated, at “Saint Spyridon the New” Cathedral in Bucharest, patriarchal chapel, with the blessing of the Patriarch of Romania, by His Grace Ioan Casian of Vicina, Assistant bishop to the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of the Americas, together with a group of priests and deacons. After reading the…
Sunday, 28 February 2016, the church of the Romanian Orthodox Parish of Jönköping, Sweden, was consecrated. The consecration service was celebrated by His Eminence Andrei, Metropolitan of Cluj, Maramureş and Sălaj, together with His Eminence Serafim, Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of Germany, Central and Northern Europe, and His Grace Macarie, Romanian Orthodox Bishop of Northern Europe.…
On the 34th Sunday after Pentecost, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Patriarchal Cathedral by His Eminence Nicolae, Romanian Orthodox Archbishop of the Americas, assisted by a group of priests and deacons. After reading the text of the Gospel according to Saint Luke 15:11-32, His Eminence delivered a sermon in which he underlined the…
His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, blessed on Sunday, 28 February 2016, the painting of the St Great Martyr Dimitrios church – Afumaţi II, Ilfov North Deanery. His Beatitude dedicated this church to St Hierarch Pahomius of Gledin, Bishop of Roman too, whose feast day is on April 14th. Before the blessing…
Sermon of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel on the Sunday of the Return of the prodigal Son (text reviewed on 28 February 2016) The soul is resurrected from spiritual death through repentance The 34th Sunday after Pentecost (return of the Prodigal Son), Luke 15:11-32: Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. The younger…
Message of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church at the consecration of the Romanian church in the Swedish city of Jönköping dedicated to the “Protection of the Mother of God and Saint Pious Daniil the Hermit and Saint Pious Paisie from Neamţ” Sunday, 28 February 2016 The consecration of the church dedicated…
The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church gathered Thursday, 25 February 2016, in a working session, at the Patriarchal Residence in Bucharest. His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel chaired the meeting. Among the decisions taken, we note: 1. The canonization of the venerable fathers Neophyte and Meletios ofStânişoaraMonastery (Feast Day – September 3rd), and Daniel and…
The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church has opened its working session this morning, 25 February 2016, in the Synodal Hall of the Patriarchal Residence in Bucharest. His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel chairs the Holy Synod in accordance to the Statutes of the Romanian Orthodox Church. In the introductory word addressed to the members of…
“Humble prayer is the foundation of the true spiritual love”, the Patriarch of Romania said today, 21 February 2016, in the sermon delivered for the faithful present in Patriarchal Cathedral. On this Sunday, the 33rd after Pentecost, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the place of worship located on the Hill of…
The message of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church on the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation of the Roma in the Romanian Principalities, an event organized by the Department for Social Inclusion and Human Rights of the Romanian Government, at the National Art Museum of Romania, February 19, 2016:…
His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania, consecrated on Thursday, 18 February 2016, the new headquarters of the Deanery of District 6, Bucharest. Along, with His Beatitude also served His Grace Timotei of Prahova, Assistant Bishop to the Archdiocese of Bucharest. The priests from the 6th District of Bucharest, the staff of the Deanery, as well…
His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, received on Thursday, 18 February 2016, at the Patriarchal Residence, (the visit of) His Eminence Ioachim, Archbishop of Roman and Bacău, together with priests, young people and faithful undertaking a pilgrimage in Bucharest. The Primate of the Romanian Orthodox Church addressed a word and blessed the…
His Eminence Ioachim, Archbishop of Roman and Bacău, has officiated this morning, 18 February 2016, the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, surrounded by an assembly of priests and deacons of the Eparchy of Roman and Bacău. His Eminence is currently undertaking a pilgrimage in Bucharest along with clergymen and young people of…
Today, 14 February 2016, the Romanian Orthodox Church is on the 17th Sunday after Pentecost. The Gospel text from Matthew 15:21-28 was read in all the places of worship: “Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of…
His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, was present on Sunday, 14 February 2016, at the Vatra Luminoasă in Bucharest. His Beatitude participated at the Divine Liturgy officiated by Rev. Ioan Popescu, Archpriest of the 6th Deanery , by Rev. Ovidiu Laurenţiu Stegăruş, Vicar of the Parish The Dormition of the Mother of…