The Week in Pictures: July 3 – 9, 2023

Camps, workshops, anniversaries, patronal feasts and concerts are some of the ingredients of Orthodox life from 3 to 9 July 2023.

Orthodox youth camp at Catrinari Păltiniș Monastery, Romania. Photo credit: Sofia Pîrvu
People from Chișinău receive daily food through the mobile social canteen program “Close to One’s Neighbour” of the Diaconia Social Mission of the Metropolis of Bessarabia. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene
Patriarch Ilya of Georgia on the 45th anniversary of His Beatitude’s enthronement. Photo credit: Patriarchate of Georgia
His Grace Sofian Brașoveanul explains to a little girl the meaning of the engolpion. Photo credit: Romulus Valentin Băluță
Explanation of the technique used to make the gobelin at a handmade workshop held at Bucharest’s “Annunciation – Belu” Church. Photo credit: Georgiana Bărîcă
The Stănile Skete in the Ceahlău Massif, Romania, in the warm sunlight. Photo credit: Gabriel Drumea
Christening in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo credit: Facebook / David Sauls
Dr Constantin Bălăceanu-Stolnici was celebrated at the Romanian Academy on the occasion of his 100th birthday anniversary on July 6, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
His Grace Sofian of Brașov visited the offices of the Basilica News Agency on July 6, 2023, and presented the agency’s director with an icon of St. Alexander Schmorell of Munich, painted at the Munich Romanian Orthodox Centre’s Workshop. The workshop has Venerable Theophano Basarab as its patron saint. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene
His Grace Ignatie with the faithful at the procession with the relics of Holy Martyr Chiriachi in Huși, July 6, 2023. Photo credit: Diocese of Huși
The Ecumenical Patriarch at the patronal feast of St Kyryaki Church in Kontiskali on July 7, 2023. Photo credit: Ecumenical Patriarchate / Nikos Papachristou
Graduates of the Bucharest Faculty of Theology took the oath on Friday, July 7, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Putna Monastery in the first week of July 2023. Photo credit: Putna Monastery
Icon of Saint Stephen the Great on Toaca Peak of Romania’s Ceahlău Massif. Photo credit: Gabriel Drumea
Graduates of the Cluj-Napoca Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Romania, took the oath of Orthodox faith. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj / Darius Echim
His Eminence Casian celebrated the Divine Liturgy with His Eminence Theodosius and His Grace Visarion at Halmyris Monastery, Tulcea County, Romania, on Saturday, July 8, 2023. Photo credit: Diocese of Tulcea
The “Saints Archangels Michael and Gabriel” Church in Rușeni, Satu Mare county, Romania. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
Believers from Ghilăvești, Bacău county, Romania, participated in the reconsecration of their local church on Sunday, July 9, 2023. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
Summer in Maramureș is divided between work and church. Photo credit: Sorin Onișor
A concert of folk religious songs in honour of the Mother of God was held at the National Cathedral Chapel in Bucharest on Sunday, July 9, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu

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