Romanian Orthodox Church

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, having as concelebrants his Auxiliary Bishops Varlaam of Ploiești and Ieronim of Sinaia. Photography courtesy of Robert Nicolae/Basilica.ro

Mar 13, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

‘Let us make Christ the centre of our lives,’ Patriarch Daniel urges on 3rd Sunday of Lent

The symbolism of the cross, the reason why the Sunday of the Veneration of the Cross is in the middle of the Lenten season, the conditions for being a good Christian are the main topics addressed by Patriarch Daniel in his homily on the third Sunday of Great Lent. In his sermon, the Romanian Patriarch…

Mar 12, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Russian Orthodox Church adds nine Romanian Saints to its calendar

During this year’s first working session held Wednesday at St Daniel Monastery in Moscow, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church approved the proposal of Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, to add to the Russian Church calendar several saints glorified by the Romanian Orthodox Church…

Mar 8, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Sainthood of Metr. Joseph Naniescu, Lay-Ascetic George Lazăr to be officially proclaimed on March 25 in Iași

The Doxologia Orthodox portal of the Metropolis of Moldavia and Bukovina announced the date when the sainthood of the two newly-canonized Metropolitan Joseph Naniescu and lay-ascetic George Lazăr will be officially proclaimed. The ceremony will take place at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Iași on the feast of the Annunciation, March 25, 2018. The Holy Synod…

Mar 7, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

New Ukrainian Ambassador to Romania Oleksandr Bankov meets with Romanian Patriarch Daniel

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel welcomed Thursday, 1 March 2018, at his patriarchal residence His Excellency the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine to Romania Oleksandr Bankov. His Beatitude appreciated the good ties between the two nations and wished for their cultivation and strengthening. In this context, the Patriarch pointed to the spiritual unity of the…

Mar 1, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel welcomes new Armenian Ambassador to Romania at his patriarchal residence

Tuesday, 27 February 2018, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, welcomed at the patriarchal residence His Excellency Sergey Minasyan, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to Romania, and His Grace Bishop Datev Hagopian, Head of the Armenian Church in Romania. His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel congratulated the new ambassador of…

Feb 28, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

‘Holy icons are the full profession of true faith in the Church,’ Patriarch Daniel says on Sunday of Orthodoxy

On the first Sunday of Great Lent, also called the Sunday of Orthodoxy, Patriarch Daniel pointed to the importance of holy icons in the Orthodox Church. They are not ‘a mere adornment in the church, but rather the full profession of the true faith in the Church: witness through words and witness through sight, because…

Feb 26, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Syriac Wonderworking Icon of the Mother of God added to the calendar of the Romanian Orthodox Church

Together with the inclusion of Saint Matrona of Moscow, the Holy Synod decided to add to the calendar of the Romanian Orthodox Church the Syriac Icon of the Mother of God from Ghighiu Monastery to be celebrated on the feast of the Life-Giving Spring, on Bright Friday, beginning with 2019. During its February working session,…

Feb 23, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel officiates Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete. ‘Great Lent is a school of repentance’

Repentance was the main theme of Patriarch Daniel’s homily delivered Monday evening at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest. ‘The Great Lent is a school of repentance,’ because it is ‘a mystical partaking of the Saviour’s forty-day fast,’ and a struggle against the tendencies inherited from our first parents Adam and Eve, especially ‘the tendency to…

Feb 22, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Patriarch Daniel at the beginning of Great Lent: In order to forgive our neighbour we need to crucify our egoism and open our soul unto resurrection

During his Sunday homily, Patriarch Daniel stressed the importance of forgiveness of those who have wronged us, noting that this is ‘the good beginning of the Lenten season,’ through which we resemble the Compassionate and Forgiving God. His Beatitude said that ‘forgiveness of sins often implies the crucifixion of our own egoism, opening our soul…

Feb 21, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

Holy Synod meets for first working session in 2018, makes important decisions

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church held this year’s first working session Thursday, February 15, at the Synodal Hall of the Patriarchal Residence, under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel. During the meeting, the members of the Holy Synod proceeded to the election of an assistant bishop to the Romanian Orthodox Diocese…

Feb 16, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu