The Week in Pictures: December 5 – 11, 2022

Starting from the feast of St. Nicholas, carolers everywhere begin to proclaim the coming of Christ the Child. Please see below our selection of photos taken between December 5 – 11, 2022.

The Putna Monastery community celebrated Archimandrite Melchisedec Velnic on December 8, 2022, marking 30 years since he became abbot. Photo: Facebook / Mănăstirea Putna
Archbishop Elpidophorus with an elderly nun on His Eminence’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Photo: GOARCH / @bnewmanphoto
Volunteers of the Association of Orthodox Theological Students prepare figurines to give as gifts to the participants in the charity concert “We sing carols by tradition” Photo: Facebook / Asociația Studenților Teologi Ortodocși
St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in New York City, USA, on December 6, 2022. Photo: Santiago Calatrava
Vigil service at the church of Cormaia Monastery in the county of Bistrița-Năsăud, on the eve of St. Spyridonus’ feast. Photo: Ionuț Chifa
Radio Trinitas’s Joy of Stories turned 11 years old, on December 5, 2022. Photo: Radio Trinitas / Adriana Ene
Romanian carolers at the “Oh, Lord, Thou art good!” Festival of Christmas Carols, organized in the Cathedral of Segorbe, Spain. Photo: Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Spain and Portugal
The Baia Mare Cathedral hosted a young Christmas carolers contest on December 8. Photo: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
Exhibition of Christian books for children in the Metropolitanate of Corfu, December 10, 2022. Photo: Orthodoxia News Agency
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I officiated the Great Vespers in the Church of St. Nicholas in Valletta, Malta, on the occasion of the feast of the Holy Hierarch, on December 5, 2022. Photo: Ecumenical Patriarchate / Nikos Papachristou
Two children pay attention during the Holy Mass celebrated at Bucharest’s Church of “St. Friday – Drumul Taberei”, on December 6, 2022. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Picture of the three churches of Dervent Monastery, in the county of Constanța, Romania. Photo: Protos. Sofronie Bobaru
Archbishop Timotei of Arad and Auxiliary Bishop Emilian of Crișana served together on the feast of Saint Nicholas at the Archdiocesan Chapel in Arad on December 6, 2022. Photo: glasulcetatii.ro
Putna Monastery in moonlight, on December 8, 2022. Photo: Facebook / Relu Avram
Sunshine rays embrace the freshly snow-covered nature in Tihuța Pass, the county of Bistrița-Năsăud, Romania, on December 7, 2022. Photo: Facebook / Sorin Onișor
His Grace Lucian in a prayer moment at the Holy Unction officiated at Vârciorova Parishon December 9, 2022. Photo: Diocese of Caransebeș
His Eminence Ieronim, Bishop of Dacia Felix, together with a group of students from the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca and young people from the Romanian community of Sân Mihai (Lokve), Serbia. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj / Darius Echim
Mosaic with the icon of Holy Hier. Nicolae in Bucharest’s St George – New Church, on December 6, 2022. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene
The relics of Holymartyr Philothea at the new Archdiocesan Cathedral in Curtea de Argeș, Romania, on December 7, 2022. Photo: Archdiocese of Argeș and Muscel

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