The Week in Pictures: December 25 – 31, 2023

Photos from Romania, Greece, France or Scotland give you an overview of the Orthodox world in the last week of the year 2023.

Patriarch Daniel celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, together with Patriarchal Auxilliary Bishops Varlaam of Ploiești and Paisie of Sinaia on December 25, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
The Nativity of the Lord is celebrated at the “Holy Three Hierarchs” Romanian Orthodox Parish in Paris. Photo credit: Damian Filip
Junii din The “Juniors” from Mărginimea Sibiului sang Christmas carols for the clergy and the faithful on Christmas Day at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Sibiu. Photo credit: Monk Paisie Vasile
Children and young people sing Christmas carols on the feast of the Nativity of the Lord at Mărțișor Church in Bucharest, Romania. Photo credit: Fr Dragoș-Aureliu Marineață
The Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, at sunset, on December 25, 2023. Photo credit: Ionuț Blîndu
Prayer to one’s spiritual patron> St Nektarios of Aegina. Photo credit: Ilie Prelipceanu 
Divine Liturgy celebrated at Darvari Skete in Bucharest, Romania. Photo credit: Darvari Skete / Gabriel Drumea
His Grace Sofian of Brașov with Romanian Orthodox children at the Münich Romanian Orthodox Church Centre on December 25, 2023. Photo credit: Facebook / Episcop Sofian Brașoveanul
Patriarch Daniel blessing the faithful at Cernica Monastery near Bucharest, Romania, on December 26, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
The feast of the Synaxis of the Mother of God celebrated on December 26, 2023, by children from Biia, Alba county, Romania, who presented an enactment of the Nativity of our Lord. Photo credit: reintregirea.ro
Holy Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen represented on an epigonation. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
Pigeons resting on church tower cross of the Dervent Monastery in Constanta, Romania. Photo credit: Protos. Sofronie Bobaru
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the the “St. Stephen” Church of the Bulgarian community in Istanbul,on December 27, 2023. Photo credit: Ecumenical Patriarchate / Nikos Papachristou
The sun shines through the windows of Bucharest’s Antim Monastery chapel. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Hierod. Nicolae Iftimiu
Bucharest’s Darvari Skete decorated for the feast of the Nativity of our Lord. Photo credit: Darvari Skete / Gabriel Drumea
Deacons during the divine service on the feast of the Holy Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen at Putna Monastery, Romania, on December 27, 2023. Photo credit: Putna Monastery
The Holy Eucharist becomes “light, peace, joy, life” for the partaker, according to St. Simeon the New Theologian. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Hierod. Nicolae Iftimiu
The joy of winter holidays at the “Holy Hierarch Leontie of Rădăuți” Children’s Home in northern Romania. Photo credit: Facebook / Asezamântul de copii Sf. Ierarh Leontie din Rădăuți.
The select audience for the Christmas carol concert entitled “At Holy Prince Stephen’s Gates” and held in the precincts of Putna Monastery, Romania. Photo credit: Putna Monastery
Sunset at Piatra Tăieturii Monastery, Romania. Photo credit: Facebook / Mănăstirea Piatra Tăieturii
Worshipping God at the Romanian Orthodox Monastery of the All Celtic Saints on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. Photo credit: Monastery of All Celtic Saints
Kenan Dionisie Wang, a Chinese convert to Orthodoxy, visited Rohia Monastery in northern Romania. Photo credit: Facebook / Kenan Wang
The Orthodox Cathedral in Rădăuți, Romania adorned by moonlight in the morning of December 29, 2023. Photo credit: Facebook / Cătălin Urdoi
Metropolitan Philotheus of Thessaloniki sings with members of Greece’s only Byzantine children’s and youth choir, Eirmos. Photo credit: Flickr / Eirmos Chant Academy
Full-moon night at Putna Monastery in Romania. Photo credit: Putna Monastery / Fr. Atanasie
New Year’s Eve at the Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God in Chiajna, near Bucharest, Romania. Photo credit: Ioana Cristian
“Saint Gerasimos was a great abbot and had a lion. We are small, so we have cats” (St. Nektarios of Optina). Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene

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