Archbishop Calinic

Archbishop Calinic to couples hoping for children: Become ‘gateways through which grace may pass’

On the feast of Sts Joachim and Anne, Archbishop Calinic of Suceava and Rădăuți urged families hoping to have children to pray and cultivate patience in humility. “Make your family and your home a place of prayer, remembering that peace, faithfulness and the good tears born of humility bring down the Kingdom of Heaven into…

Sep 9, 2026Aurelian Iftimiu

Archbishop Calinic urges faithful to make liturgical calendar ‘the compass of your life’

“Begin with God, with a prayer offered in faith, with a candle lit in silence, with an act of mercy done from the heart,” Archbishop Calinic of Suceava and Rădăuți said in a message marking the beginning of the new Church Year. His Eminence explained that liturgical time should not be regarded merely as a…

Sep 1, 2026Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian Orthodox Archbishop backs Suceava robotics team ahead of U.S. competition

Archbishop Calinic of Suceava and Rădăuți blessed members of the “Royal Engineers” robotics team from the National College “Stephen the Great” in Suceava ahead of their departure for the Michiana Premier Event 2026 in the United States. The meeting took place on Thursday, June 11, at the Archdiocesan Centre in Suceava, where Archbishop Calinic offered…

Jun 15, 2026Aurelian Iftimiu

“Our participation in New Year’s celebrations should reflect eternal, not temporary values,” says Archbishop of Suceava

At the start of 2025, Archbishop Calinic of Suceava and Rădăuți emphasized a spiritual perspective on New Year’s celebrations, stating, “Our participation in New Year’s Eve should follow different coordinates and expectations than the temporary ones.” These guiding principles, he noted, are provided by Saint Paul: “Rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be…

Jan 1, 2025Aurelian Iftimiu

Suceava Archbishop offers a decalogue for journalists to mark national poet Mihai Eminescu’s anniversary

A decalogue addressed to journalists, authored by Archbishop Calinic of Suceva and Rădăuți, exhorts them to embrace an apostolate of communication while upholding principles of professional deontology. The ten rules were compiled in the context of the 174th anniversary of the birth of Romania’s national poet and journalist, Mihai Eminescu. A decalogue for journalists Like…

Jan 18, 2024Aurelian Iftimiu

Suceava Archbishop reveals intention to canonise local saints

His Eminence Archbishop Calinic of Suceava and Rădăuţi detailed several persons with a holy life who could be proposed for canonisation by the Archdiocese in the near future. “Bukovina has, thank God, enough saints. It is true they are not yet canonised but are in the attention of the Church: Metropolitans Teoctist and Anastasie Crimca,…

Sep 22, 2023Aurelian Iftimiu

Suceava Archbishop’s anti-human trafficking decalogue

Marking the European Anti-Trafficking Day, His Eminence Archbishop Calinic of Suceava and Rădăuţi published a decalogue for preventing and combating this social phenomenon with profound adverse effects on children, women, families and communities. “God, today, more than ever, needs Levites and priests, faithful people, to protect the old, the young, the women, the girls and…

Oct 18, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Suceava Archbishop’s Olympiad participant decalogue: Constantly reinvent yourself

In the context of annual countrywide competitions in religious education and theology, Archbishop Calinic of Suceava and Radauti offered a set of ten recommendations for students entitled “The Decalogue of the Olympiad participant.” “Pray! Do not be sad when you lose lest you risk your health; constantly reinvent yourself, and you will become victorious,” is…

May 13, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

In pictures: Archbishop Calinic visits hermits in Suceava

On Thursday, April 22, Archbishop Calinic of Suceava and Radauti visited the cells of three hermits in the Lupcina area, Suceava County. The Archbishop was accompanied by Archim. Nectarie Clinci, honorary exarch of the area and Archim. Gherasim Curaciuc, inspector of the Sales Department. The Archbishop visited and blessed the cell of monk Teodosie dedicated…

Apr 24, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Archbishop Calinic points to 3 conditions for Nativity Fast to achieve its intended purpose

Archbishop Calinic of Suceava and Radauti sent a message at the beginning of the Nativity Fast reminding that ‘fasting is an opportunity to free the body from the bondage of matter, which tends to manifest itself on the soul as well.’ ‘There are three inseparable conditions for fasting to achieve its intended purpose: forgiveness, almsgiving…

Nov 20, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Archbishop Calinic calls human trafficking the ‘handcuffing in which others throw the weak, killing the soul’

During his Sunday homily, the Archbishop of Suceava and Radauti referred to human trafficking, calling it ‘an outrageous sin that cries to heaven,’ adding that it leads to spiritual death. ‘Spiritual death comes too often from the handcuffing in which other people throw away the weak. They steal their identity, present and future. They rob…

Oct 20, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu