The Week in Pictures: August 21 – 27, 2023

We invite you to a new weekly photographic journey through the Orthodox world this week. Sunsets, summer camps or moments from pilgrimages are some themes photographed between August 21 and 27, 2023.

Sunset, Dervent Monastery, Constanța county. Photo credit: Protos. Sofronie Bobaru
Talking with St. Nektarios at his home, August 21, 2023. Photo credit: George Cristian
A man holding an icon runs from the flames, on August 22, 2023. Photo credit: Instagram / Dimitris Peristeris
An 80-year-old teacher shouted the catalogue of her first graduates from the class of 1973, Ulmi Poleni, Iași county, Romania. Photo credit: Facebook / Ulmi-Poleni Memorial
His Grace Benedict of Bistrița was with the young participants in the summer camp at Mărișel, on August 25, 2023. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj / Ionuț Chifa
Morning prayer moment at the “Dormition of the Mother of God” Church in Câmpia Turzii, Romania. Photo credit: Cioca Tudor-Călin
A Koliva with the image of St. Cosmas of Aetolia at the monastery in Albania dedicated to him. Photo credit: Facebook / School of Byzantine Music in Albania
Several Romanian hierarchs participated in the spiritual and cultural events of the 15th anniversary of the foundation of the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Northern Europe. Photo credit: Diocese of Northern Europe
An inspirational message on the t-shirt of a participant at the Teen Camp organised by ATCOR and ASCOR Cluj-Napoca in Mărișel, Romania. Photo credit: Anca-Maria Bica
Young people at the Râșca Monastery, Romania, on August 24, 2023. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți
Icon of Christ Pantocrator in the tower of the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Arad. Photo credit: Sorin Ștefăniu
Sihăstria Rarăului Monastery on August 24, 2023. Photo credit: Laura Draghiciu
An elderly woman slowly walks up to the church in Suarăș Parish, Dej, August 27, 2023. Photo credit: Mitropolia Clujului / Ionuț Chifa
His Grace Iustin with the faithful of Ianculești Parish in Satu Mare County, Romania, on the day of the consecration of the parish church, August 27, 2027. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
12th Sunday after Pentecost at Pasărea Monastery near Bucharest, the capital city of Romania. Photo credit: Gabriel Drumea
The parish of Grui in Câmpulung Muscel, Romania, celebrated its patronal feast: St Phanourios, on August 27, 2023. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Argeș and Muscel / Cristian Gheorghe
Phanouropita was brought as an offering to St. Phanourios at the church of St. George in Agios Nikolaos, Crete. Photo credit: Ionuț Ungureanu

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