The Week in Pictures: September 9-15, 2019
A collection of pictures in news, culture and spirituality taken around the Orthodox world.
Tag: photography
World Photography Day 2019: Origin, history and importance
World Photography Day – August 19 – is an annual, worldwide celebration of the art, craft, science and history of photography. The World Photography Day originated from the invention of the daguerreotype, a photographic processes…
Photo contest to mark OrthPhoto’s 15th anniversary
OrthPhoto.net is organizing a photography competition entitled “OrthPhoto Awards” to celebrate its 15th anniversary. The deadline for submissions is August 19, 2019. „This is something more than a competition”, OrthPhoto announces. “We want to celebrate with…
Famous Orthodox Photography Website celebrates 15th anniversary
The renowned OrthPhoto.net website dedicated to Orthodox Photography celebrated Wednesday, April 10, its 15th anniversary. Defined as an online community of amateur and professional photographers who wish to share and exhibit photographs presenting the Orthodox…
Feast of the Dormition of Saint Anna, Orsova Monastery
Bishops Nicodim of Severin and Strehaia, Galaction of Alexandria and Teleorman and Paisie of Lugoj celebrated the Divine Liturgy at St. Anna Monastery in Orsova on Wednesday, July 25 2018, on the patronal feast of…
In pictures: Great and Holy Thursday celebrated at Bucharest’s Patriarchal Cathedral
On the Great and Holy Thursday, April 5, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest. Concelebrants for the liturgy included his auxiliary bishops…
Original 1590 Synodal Tomos of Foundation of Moscow Patriarchate
A photograph of the May 8, 1590 tomos of the Council of Constantinople on the foundation of the Russian Orthodox Church as a patriarchate has been published online by the channel “Athonite Herald” on Telegram,…
Photo Gallery: Patriarch Daniel celebrates Divine Liturgy on Sunday of Veneration of Holy Cross 2018
On the third Sunday of Great Lent, that of the Veneration of the Holy Cross, 11 March 2018, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania presided over the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest,…