Promotions in rank at the Patriarchal Residence. The Patriarch of Romania to the rev professors: „We must join the mission to form the pupils and the service in the Church”

On 18 August 2016, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church promoted two priests as iconom stavrofors, and three deacons as archdeacons.

The religious service was celebrated in the chapel of the Patriarchal Residence dedicated to “Saint Great Martyr George”.

His Beatitude delivered a speech on the responsibility of a priestly rank:

We congratulate you for this nice promotion in rank made following the proposal of those who better know your activity in the missionary field of the Church. It is a great joy for us to see that the fathers of the Theological Seminary of “Metropolitan Nifon” from Radu Voda Monastery of Bucharest are not only deacons, but also archdeacons and professors of the seminary now. In order to achieve this didactical activity we thought we should join the mission to form the pupils and the service in the Church. Orthodoxy does not separate the Liturgy from the sermon or the sermon from the dogma, but all together are harmonised and concentrated in the Holy Cup as communication with the Body and Blood of the Lord which is the Eternal Word of the Father and Who was made Man and sacrificed on the cross for the people’s salvation and is the Head and High Priest of the Church.

The Patriarch of Romania has also appreciated the activity of those who worked in the special field of recuperation of the church properties confiscated by the communist state, as well as other activities necessary for supporting the cultural, social, and missionary work of the Church. 

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