Bishop Ioan Casian

Canada’s Romanian Bishop urges an end to hostilities with Ukraine

Joining other Romanian hierarchs in their pleas for peace, His Grace Bishop Ioan Casian of Canada has called on political leaders to end the hostilities with Ukraine, asking God to grant them “wisdom, a spirit of responsibility, peaceful understanding and openness.” Expressing his deep sorrow over the armed conflict in Ukraine, Bishop Ioan Casian said…

Feb 28, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

“Be in the light of Christ!” Romanian Bishop of Canada’s message for the World Day of Orthodox Youth

The Romanian Orthodox Bishop of Canada sent a message for young people on Wednesday, when the World Day of Orthodox Youth was marked. He urged them to keep faith and grow in virtue so that they may overcome all challenges. “I urge you to be in the light of Christ!” wrote the hierarch. “This year…

Feb 5, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

How to fast from our own selfishness: Bishop Ioan Casian

The Romanian Orthodox Bishop of Canada explains, at the beginning of Great Lent, how we can drive away personal selfishness through the act of fasting. Bishop Ioan Casian says that the main remedy lies in love for God and other people. “Through the love of God and of the neighbour one fasts of his own…

Mar 16, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian Bishop of Canada’s advice for 2021: Let the foundation of all our words and deeds be the word of God

Inspired by the words of St Basil the Great, Romanian Bishop of Canada Ioan Casian invites us at the beginning of the year ‘to have the right compass and the true inspiration in decision-making as we confess through the word that we are Christians.’ “ Let the foundation of all our words and deeds be the…

Jan 6, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian Bishop Ioan Casian concelebrates ordination of assistant bishop Bartholomew of Keramos

His Grace Bishop Ioan Casian of the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada concelebrated at the Divine Liturgy and the ordination to the Episcopate of the new assistant bishop to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada, Bishop Bartholomew of Keramos. The religious service took place on July 25, 2020, at the Church of the Holy Cross…

Aug 3, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Bishop Ioan Casian of Canada: The saints’ life and the prerequisites for the Kingdom of God

“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy…

Jun 25, 2020Sorin Ioniţe

Romanian Bishop of Canada urges faithful to pray for Toronto attack victims

With great sadness, the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Canada learnt of the recent tragic event that took place last night in Greektown, Toronto, Canada. Two people have been killed and 12 others wounded, one of them critically, by a gunman who opened fire on a busy avenue in Canada’s largest city. H.G. Bishop Ioan Casian…

Jul 23, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

1st anniversary of Bishop Ioan Casian of Canada’s enthronement

His Grace Ioan Casian celebrates on 07 May his 1st anniversary as Romanian Orthodox Bishop of Canada. His Grace Bishop Ioan Casian was born on February 20, 1969, in the city of Comăneşti, Bacău country. His parents were Priest Ioan and Preoteasa Mariana. He attended elementary school in his native city from 1975-1983, then went…

May 7, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

Bishop Ioan Casian prays for Toronto van attack victims at the scene of the accident

The Romanian Orthodox Bishop of Canada, Ioan Casian, prayed Saturday for the victims of the van attack that took place in Toronto on April 23. The bishop and several priests went to the scene of the attack to light candles and pray for those who passed away. Bp Ioan Casian urged those present to entreat…

May 4, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

VIDEO | His Grace Ioan Casian enthroned as Romanian Orthodox Bishop of Canada

On Sunday, a ceremony was held at St George Church in Saint-Hubert borough of Longueuil, Canada, during which His Grace Ioan Casian was enthroned as first Romanian Orthodox Bishop of Canada. His Eminence Metropolitan Nifon of Târgoviște, the delegate of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, read out the Synodal Tomos proclaiming the establishment the new Romanian…

May 9, 2017Aurelian Iftimiu

New decisions of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church regarding Romanians living in America

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church held its first autumn session Friday, 28 October 2016, in the Synodal Hall of the Patriarchal Residence in Bucharest, under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel. The Holy Synod made the following important decisions for the church life of Orthodox Romanians living in the Americas: The…

Oct 29, 2016Aurelian Iftimiu