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Patriarch Daniel officiated the Great Compline at the Patriarchal Cathedral | PHOTO

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel on Clean Monday officiated the Great Compline at the Patriarchal Cathedral during which he read the Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete. Photography courtesy of Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu

Mar 15, 2019Mircea Florescu

First 2019 Holy Synod working session | PHOTO

The hierarchs of the Romanian Orthodox Church came together for the first working session of the Holy Synod on Thursday, after asking for God’s help and inspiration during a Te Deum service officiated at St George chapel of the Patriarchal Residence by Bishop Andrei of Covasna and Harghita. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu

Feb 21, 2019Mircea Florescu

The Feast of the Meeting of the Lord at the Patriarchal Cathedral | PHOTO

On Saturday, February 2, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral on The Feast of the Meeting of the Lord. Photo: Mircea Florescu/Basilica.ro

Feb 2, 2019Mircea Florescu

The 160th anniversary of the Union of the Romanian Principalities | PHOTO

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel on Thursday officiated a Te Deum service at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest marking the 160th anniversary of the Union of the Romanian Principalities. Following the service, the Romanian Patriarch, the President of Romania Klaus Iohannis, the president of the Romanian Academy, clergy and state officials laid wreaths at Prince Alexandru Ioan…

Jan 24, 2019Mircea Florescu

Patriarch Daniel, President of Romania attend festive session at Romanian Athenaeum on National Culture Day | PHOTO

The Romanian Academy on Tuesday held a festive session at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest to mark the National Culture Day, which was attended by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis. Photo: Mircea Florescu / Basilica.ro  

Jan 16, 2019Mircea Florescu

Patriarch Daniel, President of Romania attend festive session at Romanian Athenaeum on National Culture Day

The Romanian Academy on Tuesday held a festive session at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest to mark the National Culture Day, which was attended by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis. Introduced in 2010, Romania’s National Culture Day is celebrated on January 15. This is the birth date of Romanian poet and…

Jan 16, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

HB Patriarch Daniel: Repentance is a change, not a simple regret

‘Repentance is an effort for inner change, not a simple regret,’ His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel said in his Sunday homily at St Gregory the Enlightener Chapel of his Patriarchal Residence. His Beatitude noted that repentance does not simply imply saying ‘I’m sorry’ and moving on, ‘it is an effort to change the way of thinking,…

Jan 14, 2019Aurelian Iftimiu

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel inaugurates 1918 Great Union Memorial in Alba Iulia

On Saturday, December 1, 2018, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel inaugurated a memorial dedicated to Romania’s 1918 Great Union in Alba Iulia. The ceremony was attended by Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem and other Romanian Orthodox bishops. The stone monument has the shape of four crosses joined at the top and two reversed “U” letters, meant to…

Dec 1, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

‘We thank for all benefactions of the Great Union’: Romania National Day celebrated at Alba Iulia

For all the benefactions of the Great Union, we thank today the Most Holy Trinity,’ Patriarch Daniel said after the Te Deum service officiated on Saturday on Romania’s National Day at the Coronation Cathedral in Alba Iulia. His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem and All Palestine also concelebrated. ‘We gratefully remember all Romanian heroes who…

Dec 1, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel on Romania National Day: Let us defend and cultivate national freedom and unity (Full text)

Address by His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, at the Coronation Cathedral in Alba Iulia, at the commemoration of the 1918 Great Union founders, Saturday, December 1, 2018, National Day of Romania: Let us defend and cultivate national freedom and unity as expressions of the dignity of the Romanian people The Great…

Dec 1, 2018Sorin Ioniţe

Photo Gallery | First patronal feast of the National Cathedral

His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem and Patriarch Daniel of Romania on Friday concelebrated the Divine Liturgy for the first patronal feast of the newly-consecrated National Cathedral dedicated to Saint Andrew the First Called. Photo courtesy of Raluca Ene / Basilica.ro

Nov 30, 2018Raluca-Emanuela Ene