Join us on a virtual visit to monasteries, churches and other significant places of the Orthodox world. Your guide for this photographic pilgrimage is our week-in-picture photo feature for the week of January 22-28, 2024.
Romania’s National Cathedral in Bucharest is covered in snow. Photo credit: Adumitroaie IustinianThe wife of the Prime Minister of Vietnam, Mrs. Le Thi Bich Tran, visited the “Saint Sophia” Daycare Centre in Bucharest on January 22, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuBucharest’s Schitul Măgureanu Monastery can be seen through snowy trees. Photo credit: Monahul GherasimSunbeam on the icon of our Saviour Jesus Christ at the Church of Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel in Rohani, Romania, on January 24, 2024. Photo credit: Ovidiano OvidianTe Deum at Bucharest’s Patriarchal Cathedral on the anniversary of the Union of Romanian Principalities, January 24, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuThe 165th anniversary of the Union of Romanian Principalities was celebrated with a religious-military ceremony on the Patriarchate Hill in Bucharest, Romania, on January 24, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuThe Romanian flag is made at a traditional craft workshop organized at “Buna Vestire-Belu” Church in Bucharest, Romania. Photoresbytera Georgiana Bărîcă.The “Metropolitan Nifon” Orthodox Theological Seminary in Bucharest, Romania, celebrated its patron saint, Holy Hierarch Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople, on January 25, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuXenia, daughter of the priest who serves at Bucharest’s “St. Joachim and Anna – Old Obor” Church, celebrated her name day in prayer on February 24, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook / Ciprian TudorAll-night Vigil in honour of St. John Chrysostom at the Metochion of the Nuns in the city of Iași on January 26, 2024. Photo credit: Metochion of the NunsTrinity in Prislop Pass, Romania, on January 28, 2024. Photo credit: Sorin OnișorDigital memories captured at Hodoș-Bodrog Monastery in Arad, Romania, on January 28, 2024. Photo credit: Facebook / Iustin PopoviciThe painting of “Holy Apostles Peter and Paul” Church in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on January 28, 2024. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj / Darius EchimFaces of the faithful at the Memorial service for Ana Drăgoi, Bishop Macarie’s mother, 40 days after her passing to the Lord. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj / Ionuț ChifaMetropolitan Joseph ordained Damian and Andrei Filip as church readers of a Romanian Orthodox parish in Paris, France. Photo credit: Facebook / Biserica Ortodoxă Sfinții Trei Ierarhi – ParisFrumoasa Monastery in Călărași county, Republic of Moldova. Photo credit: Doxologia / Fr Silviu CluciAn Orthodox icon of the Holy Archangel Michael hangs outside a pub in Braintree, UK. Photo credit: X / Dragoș HerescuHis Grace Paisie of Sinaia, Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church, blessed a child at Ghighiu Monastery, Romania, on January 28, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene„Pe Argeș în jos…”, ctitoria Sfântului Neagoe Basarab, 27 ianuarie 2024. Foto credit: Ovidiu Marian VlăsceanuA faithful woman holds the icon of St. Nektarios at the “Holy Three Hierarchs” Parish in Bacău, Romania. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and BacăuA little girl reads prayers at the “Holy Apostles Peter and Paul” Monastery in Bixad, Satu Mare county, Romania, on January 28, 2024. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramureș and SătmarDetail captured at Archimandrite Teofil Panait’s tomb from the cemetery of the Cernica Monastery in Romania. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene
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