The Week in Pictures: January 24 – 30, 2022

Please find below photos taken between the National Holiday of the Union of Romanian Principalities and the feast of the Three Holy Hierarchs. This is our Week-in-Pictures selection for January 24 – 30, 2022.

The children at the “Holy Hierarch Leontie of Rădăuți” Social Center celebrated 163 years from the Union of the Romanian Principalities. They danced the hora folk dance around the church. Photo: Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți
Watching the live-streamed Divine Liturgy officiated at the Cloșca Monastery. Photo: Mădălina Ursu
The Guard Regiment was present on Bucharest’s Patriarchate Hill to mark the day of the Union of Romanian Principalities. Photo: Basilica / Mircea Florescu
Child kissing the icon of our Saviour Jesus Christ. Photo: Mihaela Popa Ignat
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew enjoying the snow in Fanar. Photo: Ecumenical Patriarchate / Nikos Papachristos
Snow on the Holy Mount Athos, with Agiou Pavlou (St Paul’s) Monastery in the background. Photo: Facebook / Holy Mount Athos
The spring from Izbuc Monastery in the county of Oradea, Romania. Photo: Facebook / Izbuc Monastery
On the feast of the Translation of St John Chrysostom’s Relics in Constantinople, the Ecumenical Patriarch gives up His Beatitude’s throne to be occupied by the icon of the saint. Photo: Ecumenical Patriarchate / Nikos Papachristou
The Bishop of Maramureș and Sătmar was greeted at the Paris-Beauvais Airport by children, by Fr. Mircea Filip’s family and other members of the Romanian Orthodox community of Paris. Photo: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
Snow over the Romanian Patriarchate’s representation in Jerusalem. Photo: Facebook / Archim. Teofil Anastasoaie
Fairytale view of St Menas Skete in the county of Neamț, Romania. Photo: Lucian Iancu
Tennis player Novak Djokovic participated in the Divine Liturgy officiated at the Belgrade Cathedral for the feast of the Holy Hierarch Sava of Serbia. Photo: Serbian Patriarchate
Deserted Christian cemeteries in the Turkish part of Cyprus. Photo: Facebook / Panayiotis Papageorgiou
Snow at St David’s Monastery on Evia Island. Photo: Marius Cotos
Winter rich in snow at Vișeu de Sus, in the county of Maramureș, Romania. Photo: Facebook / “Holy Emperors Constantine and Helen” Orthodox Parish in Vișeu de Mijloc
Scaffolding was partially removed from the exterior of the National Cathedral towers in Bucharest. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Vigil at the “St Demetrios-Post” Church in Bucharest. Photo: “St Demetrios-Post” Church, University Chapel
A fragment of the relics of Venerable Irodion of Lainici were offered to Pasărea Monastery in the county of Ilfov, Romania. Photo: Gabriel Drumea
Father Agapios, an Orthodox missionary priest in Kenya, met with members of the youth organization Youth for Youth in the county of Mureș, Romania. Photo: Moldovan Alexandru
The patronal feast of the “Three Holy Hierarchs” Romanian Church in Paris was officiated after the church was consecrated a day before, on January 29, 2022. Photo: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
St Nicodemus of Jerusalem Monastery has been built over the place where Holy Apostle Peter is thought to have been imprisoned. Photo: Jerusalem Patriarchate
The “Three Holy Hierarchs” Parish in the city of Bacău celebrated its patronal feast on Sunday. Photo: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
A child praying at the holy icons in St Catherine’s Church, which serves as a university chapel for the Orthodox Theology Faculty in Bucharest. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene
The holy relics of St Bessarion the Agathonite, hegumen of  Agathon Monastery, surnamed “the Merciful”. Photo: Metropolis of Fthiotida

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