His Eminence Metropolitan Petru issued a message honouring the victims of the organised famine that ravaged Bessarabia from 1946 to 1947. “We bow our heads and knees to the memory of the reposed and promise…
On Anti-Communist Political Prisoners Day, His Grace Bishop Varlaam of Ploiești, general secretary of the Holy Synod, revealed some of the names proposed for canonization in 2025. They are priests and monks persecuted or martyred…
“If you read the poems and texts of those who suffered in communist prisons, you will see that every word they uttered reflects another way to rejoice. The joy of being alone, a stranger, forgotten,…
President Klaus Iohannis promulgated the law by which the city of Dragomireşti in Maramureş County was declared a “martyr city” of the anti-communist struggle, the presidency announced on Nov. 13. The Senate adopted the bill,…
Bishop Ignatie of Huși remembered Archimandrite Mina Dobzeu as ‘a brave confessor of Christ in hostile times,’ during a memorial service last Saturday marking two years since the repose of the priest who baptised Fr…
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel sent a message to the Symposium organized by the Institute for Political Sciences and International Relations of the Romanian Academy to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Romanian…
The body of the former Bishop Grigorie Leu of Huși was exhumed on Wednesday, Sept. 26, to clarify certain medico-legal aspects by experts in forensic medicine from the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes…
Archimandrite Mina Dobzeu, a Romanian confessor of faith in communist prisons, was laid to rest at the Huși Cathedral Saturday, June 9, 2018. The hierarchical Divine Liturgy and the funeral service were held earlier at…
The Huși Diocese announced the falling asleep in the Lord of Archimandrite Mina Dobzeu, a steadfast confessor of faith during communist regime and the priest who baptised the renowned Fr Nicolae Steinhardt. Fr Mina Dobzeu…
The Address of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, delivered for the International Congress of Theology The Life of Orthodox Churches During the Communist Regime – Persecution, Resistance, Confessing, 23-29 October 2017,…