The members of the National Church Council met Tuesday, February 19, 2019, for the annual working session at the Patriarchal Residence in Bucharest. The meeting was chaired by His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel. The NCC members reviewed the most important activities carried out last year by the Romanian Orthodox Church and set project proposals for 2019.…
On Monday, February 4, the Romanian Orthodox Church celebrated the 94th anniversary since its elevation to the rank of patriarchate. On February 4, 1925, the Holy Synod gathered in Bucharest and resolved the establishment of the Romanian Orthodox Patriarchate, following Romania’s Great Union achieved in 1918. The first person who advocated for the elevation of…
‘The Feast of the Nativity of the Lord reveals God’s endless love for humans, which is above all understanding,’ the Patriarch of Romania said during the Christmas Divine Liturgy celebrated on Tuesday, December 25, at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest. Concelebrants for the Divine Liturgy included His Grace Bishop Qais of Erzurum (Antioch Patriarchate), the…
The Society of Orthodox Women was established on Tuesday, Dec. 18, at the Nativity of the Lord Church in Bălți, Moldova, aiming ‘to promote and to foster Christian virtues in family, school and public life and to contribute to the active involvement of the Orthodox Christian woman in the national community for a better life.’…
Patriarch Daniel attended the annual Christmas Carol Concert on Monday evening at the Palace of the Patriarchate in Bucharest in honour of His Beatitude’s patron Saint, the Holy Prophet Daniel. Romania’s Minister of National Education joined the event by the Romanian Patriarchate’s Nicolae Lungu mixed voice choir and the Tronos Byzantine choir of the Patriarchal…
On Sunday, Decmber 9, 2018, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel performed the consecration of the new church of the Patriarchal and Stavropegic Monastery of the Dormition of the Theotokos in Techirghiol. The new church is dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos, Saint Theoctistus, and Saint Daniel the Hermit. Photography courtesy of Mircea Florescu / Basilica.ro
On Sunday, December 2, 2018, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel officiated the consecration service of the restored St Nicholas Church on the island of Cernica Monastery. The church went through lengthy restoration works that started in 2003 including the refurbishing of the porch and the building’s iconography. A new iconostasis was installed, as well as new…
On Saturday, His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew addressed the members of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church gathered in solemn session at the Patriarchal Residence in Bucharest expressing his hope that ‘the Romanian Orthodox Church will be involved in preserving church unity and justice.’ The solemn session of the Holy Synod was opened…
The Speech of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania, at the solemn meeting of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Synodal Hall, Patriarchal Residence in Bucharest, 24 November 2018: Your Holiness, On behalf of the members of the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church, we welcome you at this solemn meeting of…
Welcome speech of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania, at the reception of foreign delegations at the “Holy Emperors Constantine and Helen“ Patriarchal Cathedral, Bucharest, 23 November 2018: Your Holiness Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople – New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, Your Eminence Chrysostomos, Metropolitan of Patra, On behalf of the members of the Holy Synod…
The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church has issued a pastoral letter on the first Sunday of the Nativity Fast recalling that the Romanian people bears the ‘seal of the mystery of Christ’s Cross and Resurrection.’ ‘The luminous fruit-bearing of Christ’s Gospel in the history and culture of the Romanian people is observed in…
