The Week in Pictures: February 10 -16, 2025

Memorial services, celebration of saints and the ordination of a new hierarch are some of the themes of the photos included in our feature for the week between 10-16 February 2025.

The Bishop of Maramureș and Sătmar travelled through the Bosphorus Strait on February 10, 2025. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
The Holy Three Hierarchs were celebrated in Jerusalem, on February 12,  2025. Photo credit: Jerusalem Patriarchate
The Metropolitan of Cluj attended the military oath ceremony involving the students of the “Septimiu Mureșan” Police Officers’ School in Cluj-Napoca on February 14, 2025. Photo credit: Cluj-Napoca Police Officers School
Bishop Melchisedec Ștefănescu was commemorated in Roman, Romania, on February 14, 2025. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
Metropolitan Arsenius of Sliven blessed the vineyards in a Bulgarian town on February 14, 2025. Photo credit: Bulgarian Patriarchate
Romania’s Patriarchal Cathedral on the first snowy night in 2025. Photo credit: Protos. Serghie Pârău
His Grace Timotei of Prahova officiated a memorial service for Father Ilie Ilisei at the “Holy Archangels” Church in Fălticenii Vechi, Romania. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți
Bukovina children visited the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest on February 15, 2025. Photo credit: Protos. Serghie Pârău
Presentation of Fr Nicolae Steinhardt’s book, The Journal of Joy, at St Mary’s Romanian Orthodox Church in New York, US. Photo credit: St Mary Romanian Orthodox Church New York
A phone with a photo of Father Proclus Nicau tries to capture an image of The newly-elected Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Kishnev on February 15, 2025. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene
Calling the faithful to participate in the religious service by playing the semantron at Comana Monastery, Romania, on February 16, 2025. Photo credit: Comana Monastery / Dragoș Grigore
“St. Sabba” Monastery in Berzunți, Romania, on February 15,  2025. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
Mural painting of the Parable of the Prodigal Son at Belvedere Church, Romania, on February 16, 2025. Photo credit: Lavinia Drăgan
A skete protected by the Holy Hierarch Niphon, Patriarch of Constantinople, and St Theodora of Sihla in Oeștii-Pământeni, Romania. Photo credit: Cristi Gheorghe
Romania’s Patriarchs and Bishop Melchisedec Ștefănescu were commemorated in Orbeni, Romania. Photo credit: Fr. Robert Vasile Moldoveanu
Righteous Simeon was celebrated at Katamonas Monastery in Jerusalem on February 16, 2025. Photo credit: Jerusalem Patriarchate
Slippers and school uniforms donated to Orthodox children in Tanzania. Photo credit: Doxologia.ro
Pasărea Monastery near Bucharest, Romania, covered with snow on February 16, 2025. Photo credit: Facebook / Daniela Bordeianu
The hierarchs present at the ordination of His Grace Nectarie of Bogdania, the new Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Kishnev, were greeted with flowers by the faithful on February 16, 2025. Photo credit: Ziarul Lumina / Luigi Ivanciu
Patriarch Daniel entering the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, on February 16, 2025. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu

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