The Week in Pictures: January 27 – February 2, 2025

Our new Week-in-Pictures photo feature brings you snapshots from the Orthodox world between January 27 and February 2, 2025.

The Ambassador of Georgia to Romania offered an icon of Saint Nina to Bucharest’s Antim Monastery on January 27, 2025. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene
Metropolitan Ioan of Banat at the patronal feast of the Timișoara Metropolitan Cathedral on January 30, 2025. Photo credit: Dan Sara
Picture from the funeral service for Archbishop Anastasios of Albania on January 31, 2024. Photo credit: Church of Albania
Costel Nacu working on the new tomos, a Church document proclaiming the canonization of new saints – in this case, 16 new Romanian saints who witnessed Christ during the atheist communist regime. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Archbishop Casian of the Lower Danube blessed the vineyard and agricultural land on February 1, 2025, at a Romanian monastery dedicated to Holy Martyr Tryphon, protector of gardeners and land workers. Photo credit: Archdiocese of the Lower Danube
An icon of St. Tryphon in a vineyard. The martyr is the protector of gardeners and agricultural workers on February 1, 2025. Photo credit: Diocese of Tulcea
Elder Proclu Nicău was commemorated at Sihăstria Putnei Monastery, Romania, on February 1, 2025, eight years after he reposed into the Lord. Photo credit: Sihăstria Putnei Monastery
The Archbishop of Suceava and Rădăuți blessed a child on February 2, 2025. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți
Painting at the chapel dedicated to Holy Prophet Elijah and St. Gerasimos from River Jordan at Arnota Monastery, Romania. Photo credit: Arnota Monastery
Multigenerational communion at the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Roman, Romania, on February 2, 2025. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
Pantocrator Monastery in Beclean, Romania, on February 2, 2025. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj / Ionuț Chifa
The choir of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Iași at the patronal feast of the place of worship – the Meeting of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple, on February 2, 2025. Photo credit: Doxologia.ro
Dew on snowdrops in the Pârșcoveni Parish churchyard, Romania, on February 2, 2025. Photo credit: Didona Moină
Divine Liturgy celebrated at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Iași for the Feast of the Meeting of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple on February 2, 2025. Photo credit: Sabin Simota
Acolyte at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on February 2, 2025. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj / Darius Echim
The hierarchs of Maramureș at the patronal feast of the Moisei Monastery, Romania, on February 2, 2025. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
Inside a bus in Serbia. Photo source: X / Princip940
Newly-ordained deacon embracing his wife at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, on February 2, 2025. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene

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