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New abbot installed at Finland Valaam Monastery: Archim. Mikael speaks 10 foreign languages

Metropolitan Arseni of Kuopio and Karelia installed on Sunday the new abbot at Finland’s Valaam Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Lord. Archim. Mikael Nummela has studied Economics and Theology and speaks, in addition to Finnish, 10 other languages. The new Abbott, Archim. Mikael Nummela, was elected by the monastery synaxis on January 4, after…

Jan 28, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

Church from time of St. Stephen the Great becomes monastery

500 years after it was consecrated, a stone church near Suceava was turned into a monastery.  Meeting on Wednesday, the Suceava Diocesan Council approved the establishment of the Sunday of All Saints Monastery in the village of Părhăuți in Suceava County. The community will be built around a church built and consecrated during the reign…

Jan 28, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: January 17 – 23, 2022

On any given day, Orthodox feasts bring joy and spiritual fulfilment to the faithful. Please discover the joy of Orthodox life in the photos captured between January 17 and 23, when the Lord’s Epiphany was celebrated according to the unrevised calendar. Last week’s most-liked Instagram photo:   View this post on Instagram   A post…

Jan 25, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

2022 priorities in Suceava Archdiocese: Hermitage to be built where Elder Cleopa hid in mountains

A priority of the Suceava and Rădăuți Archdiocese for this year is to start building a skete at Vadu Negrilesei, in Stânișoara Mountains, where Elder Cleopa Ilie withdrew for some years, away from the communist regime. As the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church is considering canonization of the elder in 2025, the Eparchy…

Jan 25, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

President of Romania bestows order of merit on priest who brought down Lenin statue

The President of Romania bestowed on Wednesday the National Order of Merit upon a priest who reposed earlier this month and who was instrumental in the fight for Romanian democracy in the early 1990s. Fr. Sorin Grecu held a hunger strike before the statue of Lenin that once stood on Bucharest’s Free Press Square, which…

Jan 22, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

National Culture Day: What is deeply national becomes universal

Romania celebrates National Culture Day on January 15, the date of birth of the National Poet, Mihai Eminescu. The Romanian Parliament adopted the law in 2010 and the day has been marked since 2011. Recently speaking of Mihai Eminescu, Acad. Ioan-Aurel Pop, current President of the Romanian Academy, and Acad. Ana Blandiana said that what…

Jan 15, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

Romanian Patriarchate’s Order of St. John Jacob of Neamț handed over to Patriarch of Jerusalem

His Beatitude Daniel Patriarch of Romania awarded the Patriarch of Jerusalem the “St. John Jacob of Neamț, the New Chozebite” Order during a ceremony on December 22, 2021.  The Order was brought to Jerusalem by the representative of the Romanian Orthodox Church to the Holy Land, Archim. Teofil Anăstăsoaie. The Romanian Patriarchate’s order was bestowed…

Jan 12, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

Metropolitan of Banat celebrated his name day eating with the homeless

Metropolitan Ioan of Banat celebrated his name day on Friday by having lunch with the beneficiaries of the Timișoara Municipality’s Centre for Emergency and Crisis Situations. The hierarch is an important supporter of the city’s social work, periodically offering large amounts of food for its social assistance institutions. His Eminence had lunch with the homeless…

Jan 11, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: January 3 – 9, 2022

Theophany according to the revised calendar and the Lord’s Nativity according to the unrevised calendar have brought joy to Orthodox Christians these days. Please find below our Week in Pictures selection for January 3 – 9. Last week’s most-liked Instagram photo:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Basilica News Agency…

Jan 11, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

The Week in Pictures: December 27, 2021 – January 2, 2022

Please find below our photo selection for the first week of the New Year. Part of the Orthodox world is preparing for Christmas according to the unrevised calendar. Last week’s most-liked Instagram photo:   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Basilica News Agency (@basilica.ro) Do you want to be featured in…

Jan 3, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

Basilica Photos: Year 2021 in 100 photos

Please find below our selection of the best 100 photos made by the Basilica News Agency photographers in the year 2021. See more below: Photo credit: Basilica.ro

Dec 30, 2021Ștefana Totorcea