The Week in Pictures: August 5 – 11, 2024

In our Week-in-Pictures photo feature, please find never-before-seen photos from the Orthodox world taken between August 5 and August 11, 2024.

Liturgy with hierarch at the patronal feast of the Ilva Mare Monastery, Romania, on August 6, 2024. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj / Ionuț Chifa
His Eminence Calinic blessed the faithful on the feast of Transfiguration at Slănic Monastery, Romania, on August 6, 2024. Photo credit: Monk Paisie Vasile
The patronal feast of the Botiza Monastery in Maramureș county, Romania, on August 6, 2024. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
Church of Holy Archangels in Săvinești, Romania, on August 6, 2024. Photo credit: Ioana-Ana Cacso
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I blessed grapes on the Feast of the Transfiguration on August 6, 2024. Photo credit: Ecumenical Patriarchate / Nikos Papachristou
Conclusion of the 15th pilgrimage in honour of St. John of Rila, on August 6, 2024. Photo credit: Bulgarian Patriarchate
The first Orthodox Divine Liturgy was celebrated on the feast of the Transfiguration on Zugspitze, Germany’s highest peak, on August 6, 2024. Photo credit: Romulus Valentin Băluță
Abbot Vasile Pârjol at the historic patronal feast of Cernica Monastery, Romania, on August 6, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela Ene
The Cave of St. Teodora of Sihla on August 6, 2024. Photo credit: Doxologia / Fr. Silviu Cluci
The Feast of St. Teodora of Sihla at Sihăstria Monastery on August 7, 2024. Photo credit: Doxologia / Fr. Silviu Cluci
Fresco representing St. Ioan Iacob of Neamț – at Cernica Monastery. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela Ene
Archim. Dosoftei Dijmărescu from Putna Monastery brought a fragment of St Jacob of Putna to a parish in Botoșani, Romania. Photo credit: Lori Gia
Holy Hierarch Kallinikos of Edessa was celebrated on August 8, 2024, in his diocese. Photo credit: Orthodoxia News Agency
Procession of the Holy Icon of the Mother of God in Kissamos in Crete, on August 8, 2024. Photo credit: Orthodoxia News Agency
Preparing prosphora dough at the St Seraphim Orthodox Cathedral in Texas, USA, on August 8, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook / St. Seraphim Orthodox Cathedral
The Patriarchy Hill in Bucharest, Romania, was the scene of a movie shot on August 8, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Hierod. Nicolae Iftimiu
Commemoration service Văratic Monastery for Schemanun Elisabeta (Safta) Brâncoveanu, a descendant of Holy Prince and Martyr Constantin Brâncoveanu. Photo credit: Văratic Monastery
The Bishop of Maramureș holding a child at the “Holy Apostle Andrew” Parish in Baia Mare, Romania, on August 9, 2024. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
The arrival of the Icon of the Mother of God from Adam Monastery in the Roma community of Ivești, Romania, on August 10, 2024. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Lower Danube
St. Ioan Iacob of Neamt celebrated in the Patriarchate of Jerusalem on August 10, 2024. Photo credit: Jerusalem Patriarchate
Patriarch Porphirije with a group of young athletes from Serbia on August 10, 2024. Photo credit: Serbian Patriarchate
Procession with the icon of the Mother of God in Sozopol, Bulgaria, on August 11, 2024. Photo credit: Bulgarian Patriarchate
The blessing of the faithful at the Feast of the Icon of the Mother of God in Suprasl, Poland, on August 11, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook / Aleksander Wasyluk
Drone shot of the Precista Parish in Bacău, Romania, taken on August 11, 2024. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
Bishop of Dacia Felix is greeted with bread and salt at the Romanian church in Toracul Mare, Serbia, August 11, 2024. Photo credit: Diocese of Dacia Felix
St. John the Baptist Church in Baia Mare, Romania, on August 11, 2024. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
Caring for beehives at the Orthodox Monastery of All Celtic Saints. Photo credit: Facebook / Mull Monastery of All Celtic Saints
Procession with the relics of Holy Hierarch Spirydonos in Corfu, Greece, on August 11, 2024. Photo credit: Orthodoxia News Agency
The face of Holy Prine Neagoe Basarab embroidered on a Romanian priest’s vestment on August 11, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu

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