His Holiness Bartholomew I celebrated on Tuesday 30 years from his enthronement as Archbishop of Constantinople – the New Rome and as Ecumenical Patriarch. The 270th Patriarch of Constantinople was enthroned on November 2, 1991, at St. George Cathedral at the Phanar. Short biography Patriarch Bartholomew was born in 1940, on Imbros Island (Gökçeada, in…
Painter Daniel Codrescu and his team are working tirelessly on the mosaic painting of Romania’s National Cathedral. They offered Basilica.ro a photo feature of the making of the Platytera Mother of God mosaic icon in the sanctuary. The name of the icon means in Greek “Higher than the heavens”. This icon is usually of great…
On Monday, November 25, 2019, we marked one year since the historic consecration of the Romanian People’s Salvation Cathedral, the most important national project dedicated to Romania’s Great Union Centennial, a symbol of the unity of faith and of nation of Romanians. Although the Cathedral was consecrated as ‘shell and core,’ over 150,000 Romanians came…
After the historic meeting at the Patriarchal Palace, Patriarch Daniel and Pope Francis visited the National Cathedral in Bucharest. In his speech, Patriarch Daniel presented to Pope Francis a brief history of the National Cathedral. In the same message, the Patriarch expressed his gratitude for “the liturgical spaces offered by Catholic communities to Romanian Orthodox…
