new school year

Patriarch Daniel encourages Christian education at start of 2024-2025 school year

As the 2024-2025 school year began, Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church congratulated students, parents, teachers, and educators. He emphasized the importance of Christian education, calling it “light for society” and essential for the spiritual growth of individuals in communion with God. Patriarch Daniel highlighted that Christian education fosters values such as love, kindness,…

Sep 11, 2024Aurelian Iftimiu

Religious Education teachers in the Metropolis of Bessarabia set priorities ahead of new School Year

Religious education teachers from the Metropolis of Bessarabia met last week to discuss the new school year‘s curriculum. They established several priorities related to strategies for strengthening religious education in schools. The meeting was held at “Metropolitan Gurie Grosu” Hall at the Metropolitan Residence in Chișinău. The session was streamed online to facilitate participation for…

Aug 26, 2024Aurelian Iftimiu

Lower Danube Archdiocese provides school supplies to 4,000 children

Ahead of the new school year, Orthodox dioceses throughout Romania have been providing children with necessary school supplies. A week before school started, priests of the Archdiocese of Lower Danube distributed backpacks filled with school supplies to 4,000 children. On September 16, the Brăila Deanery distributed 650 backpacks with supplies to its parishes, who in…

Sep 17, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Cluj Metropolitan brings school-supply kits to 400 Roma children

Four hundred Roma children from Turda-Fabrici Parish received backpacks, school supplies, sweets and prayer books. The gifts were personally offered by Metropolitan Andrei of Cluj, who visited the parish in Turda on Thursday, Sept. 9. The supplies were purchased by the Archdiocese of Vad, Feleac, and Cluj, with the support of the “Orthodox Philanthropy” Association…

Sep 16, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Ahead of new school year, Patriarch Daniel blesses Romanian students, professors everywhere

Ahead of the school year 2021-22, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel sent a message to “Romanian students, parents, teachers and professors everywhere”, referring to “the usefulness, but also the limits of online education”, as well as the role of the family in educating children. “In the context of the Romanian and European tradition, the determining role…

Sep 9, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Basilica Photos | New school year begins at Bucharest Orthodox Theological Seminary

His Grace Bp Timotei of Prahova, Assistant Bishop to the Archdiocese of Bucharest, officiated a Te Deum service at “Metropolitan Nifon” Orthodox Theological Seminary in Bucharest on Tuesday, September 15, 2020, to mark the beginning of the new school year. The hierarch sprinkled with holy water the classrooms, the seminary’s library, the boarding school rooms as…

Sep 22, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel blesses beginning of new school year: Education is the fundamental priority of any society that wants development

In a message to all students, parents and teachers in pre-university education, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel conveyed his patriarchal blessings on the beginning of the new school year 2020-2021. The patriarch reminded of the decision of the Holy Synod to declare 2020 as solemn year of the pastoral care of parents and children in the…

Sep 9, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu