Romanian Patriarchate

Romanian Patriarchate adds its voice: Keep Hagia Sophia a museum

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel told the Ecumenical Patriarch that the Romanian Patriarchate supports the preservation of the current status of the Hagia Sophia Basilica in Constantinople (Istanbul). The status of this symbol for Christianity is being re-discussed in Turkey. The Ecumenical Patriarchate has asked the Turkish authorities to keep the current museum status for the…

Jul 8, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Spokesperson: Gender ideology is toxic to the community body of any society

Vasile Bănescu, the spokesman of the Romanian Patriarchate, sent a message regarding gender ideology, which he described as “an (im)pure ideology”. “That is, an artificial ideational construction, so-called cultural, oriented in line with reality, with logic, biology, anthropology, the order of nature. An ideology meant to justify an absurd, therefore harmful, topic on the agenda…

Jun 25, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Romanian Patriarchate welcomes Government’s decision to resume regular worship inside churches

‘The Romanian Patriarchate received with joy the intensely awaited and fully justified decision of the authorities to allow the celebration of religious services inside the churches, with the participation of the faithful, in compliance with clear and still necessary regulations,” the Patriarchate’s spokesman Vasile Bănescu told Basilica.ro Tuesday. The decision to allow religious services to…

Jun 19, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

For 12 years, Basilica.ro

June 16 marks the 12th anniversary of Basilica.ro, the only news agency belonging to an Orthodox Autocephalous Church. This unique project began as a news aggregator selecting articles from the Dioceses of the Romanian Patriarchate. Information was taken en masse directly from the source, with little intervention on form or content. After joining social media,…

Jun 16, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Celebration of services inside places of worship is fully justified – Patriarchate’s Spokesperson

The spokesman of the Romanian Patriarchate said Thursday that ‘the rapid return to the celebration of religious services inside the places of worship (with the implicit observance of the rules of physical distancing and sanitation of the liturgical spaces as established by the competent authorities) is already fully justified and adequate to the current Romanian…

Jun 12, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

The Week in Pictures: June 1 -7, 2020

This is Orthodoxy in pictures beginning with Children’s Day until Pentecost Sunday, reflecting the joy of childhood and the great feast that marks the establishment of the Church. Here is our weekly selection of photos in the Orthodox world captured from June 1 to June 7, 2020. Last week’s most widely appreciated post on our…

Jun 11, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

Bishop Varlaam: The Basilica Media Centre has proved its social and spiritual utility

The Basilica Press Centre of the Romanian Patriarchate is placed under the protection of the Holy Trinity. At the Divine Liturgy celebrated on Monday in the courtyard of the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, special petitions were offered for the media centre and its staff. His Grace the Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop Varlaam of Ploiești, who presided…

Jun 9, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

The Feast of Holy Trinity, a celebration of the Basilica Media Centre

The five institutions belonging to the Basilica Media Centre of the Romanian Patriarchate were placed under the protection of the Holy Trinity, having as model and help the Divine Persons ‘who offer themselves to each other and work together in a perfect harmony, while their glory shows the holiness and the beauty of their eternal…

Jun 8, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

REPORT. Romanian Patriarchate offers support of over 4.3 million Euros during Covid-19 crisis

According to a new report issued by the Social-Philanthropic Sector of the Patriarchal Administration, the Church has donated over 4.3 million Euros (20,896,872 Romanian Lei) to the socially vulnerable and the medical institutions affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. On March 23, the Romanian Patriarchate launched an online platform entitled ajutacubucurie.ro (“help with joy”), and the…

Jun 3, 2020Ștefana Totorcea

Founders of Greater Romania to be remembered in all churches across Romania on 1920 Trianon Centenary

On Thursday, June 4, 2020, during the Divine Liturgy and the memorial service for heroes held in all churches throughout the Romanian Patriarchate, will be remembered the Romanian heroes, soldiers, fighters, diplomats and all contributors to the achievement of Greater Romania between 1916 and 1918 and its international recognition, in particular by the Treaty of…

Jun 3, 2020Aurelian Iftimiu

New financial and material support offered by the Romanian Patriarchate before the expiration of the state of emergency

The Romanian Orthodox Church has continued its extensive aid campaign in the context of the pandemic and the emergency state, the latter effectively ending in Romania this Thursday, May 14. The Church has offered substantial and diversified aid, through parishes and dioceses, to the elderly and the poor, the sick and disabled and to the…

May 14, 2020Ștefana Totorcea