On Sunday, following the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel was honored on the occasion of his 35th anniversary of episcopal ministry. Before delivering the congratulatory message, Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Varlaam…
In a message marking the 105th anniversary of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania, His Eminence Metropolitan Petru of Bessarabia recalled that the Act of Union, adopted by the Country’s Council on March 27, 1918,…
Great Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky’s work decisively marked the literature, philosophy, psychology and theology of the 20th century. He was born in Moscow two centuries ago, on November 11, 1821. Dostoevsky was born in…
Several ceremonies including a solemn Divine Liturgy, a Te Deum service and a wreath-laying ceremony were held Sunday on the Patriarchate’s Hill in Bucharest to mark the 162nd founding anniversary of the Union of the…
The Basilica Media Center of the Romanian Patriarchate celebrates its 13th anniversary on October 27, on the feast of St Demetrius the New. This celebration always finds Church journalists at work. During the religious service,…
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel celebrates on 4 March 2020 his 30th anniversary of episcopal consecration. Patriarch Daniel, the sixth leader of the Romanian Orthodox Church, was born on 22 July 1951, in Dobreşti village, Bara commune,…
On Saturday, February 29, 2020, His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople celebrates his 80th birthday. Born Demetrios Archondonis on 29 February 1940 on the island of Imvros (today, Gökçeada, Turkey), His All-Holiness Bartholomew was…
His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus, celebrates on 26 February 2020 his 42nd episcopal consecration anniversary. He was born in Tala village, Paphos. At the age of 10 he lost…
His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III celebrates on 14 February 2020 his 15th episcopal consecration anniversary. His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine (known in the world as Elias…
Romanians celebrate on Friday the 161st anniversary of the Union of the Romanian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia, a highly important event in the country’s history, which opened the way to the modernization of the Romanian state…