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Welcoming ceremony for Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Bucharest: Photo Gallery

An official welcome ceremony was held Friday, November 23, 208, at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest for Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew who will lead the inauguration of Romania’s National Cathedral this Sunday. Photography courtesy of Mircea Florescu / Basilica.ro

Nov 23, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Ecumenical Patriarch officially welcomed by Patriarch Daniel at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest: VIDEO

His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Friday was officially welcomed at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania. The church bells rang at noon announcing the arrival of the two delegations of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and of the Holy Metropolis of Patra invited to Bucharest for the consecration of the…

Nov 23, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Welcome to Romania! – Message by Romanian Patriarch Daniel at the reception of foreign delegations

Welcome speech of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania, at the reception of foreign delegations at the “Holy Emperors Constantine and Helen“ Patriarchal Cathedral, Bucharest, 23 November 2018: Your Holiness Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople – New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, Your Eminence Chrysostomos, Metropolitan of Patra, On behalf of the members of the Holy Synod…

Nov 23, 2018Iulian Dumitraşcu

Ecumenical Patriarch arrives in Romania for historic consecration of National Cathedral

His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople has arrived in Bucharest to lead the historic consecration ceremony of Romania’s National Cathedral, a memorial church built in honor of all the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country’s independence. Born Demetrios Archondonis in 1940 on the island of Imvros (today, Gökçeada, Turkey), His All-Holiness Bartholomew…

Nov 23, 2018Gheorghe Anghel

Consecration of the National Cathedral: Full Schedule

The Romanian Patriarchate has organized a series of manifestations on the occasion of the consecration of the National Cathedral. Please find below the full schedule of the events. Friday, November 23, 2018 At 12.45 p.m., His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel will welcome His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, accompanied by a delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, as…

Nov 22, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Holy Synod issues pastoral letter at the beginning of Nativity Fast

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church has issued a pastoral letter on the first Sunday of the Nativity Fast recalling that the Romanian people bears the ‘seal of the mystery of Christ’s Cross and Resurrection.’ ‘The luminous fruit-bearing of Christ’s Gospel in the history and culture of the Romanian people is observed in…

Nov 20, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

National Cathedral largest bell installed on metallic headstock

One of the most difficult stages and an engineering challenge was accomplished on Tuesday, November 13, on the construction site of the Romanian People’s Salvation Cathedral. The Cathedral’s largest bell weighing 25 tons was hung onto the metallic headstock inside the bell tower. ‘I can’t tell I was nervous,’ Grassmayr representative eng. Corneliu Revencu told…

Nov 15, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Rev. Constantin Necula on Romania’s National Cathedral: ‘It will change the life of those who constantly seek God’

The National Cathedral ‘includes in itself all our defeats and humiliations over the last 100 years. It rises as a victory. It will change only the life of those who constantly seek God with the persistence of the soldiers who know they are defending their family and nation.’ ‘For the others who are more superficial,…

Nov 15, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Works at National Cathedral’s iconostasis to be completed by November 1

The works at the mosaic iconostasis of the Romanian People’s Salvation Cathedral will be completed by November 1, Trinitas TV reports. The Romanian Patriarchate’s Church Painting Committee analysed Friday the stage of the works at the Cathedral’s iconostasis and announced their completion within one month. Artists began applying mosaic icons on the iconostasis at the…

Oct 1, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Days of Cathedral’s Consecration to begin in two months

The six-day manifestation dedicated to the consecration of Romania’s National Cathedral will begin in two months. Several spiritual, liturgical, and cultural events will be organized by the Romanian Patriarchate on Nov. 25-30 to solemnly mark the consecration of the Romanian People’s Salvation Cathedral. The manifestations that will last six days will bear the title of…

Sep 26, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Communique: Patriarch Daniel blesses National Cathedral’s bells

Monday, September 3, 2018, from 09:45 to 10:30 a.m., His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel officiated the blessing service of the National Cathedral’s six bells on the ground. Consequently, the bells will be mounted together with their metallic structure in the Bell Tower on the western façade of the new Patriarchal Cathedral, at a height of 60…

Sep 4, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu