The Week in Pictures: June 5 – 11, 2023

The last week of the liturgical period named Pentecostarion was captures through the lens of amateur and professional photographers.

The Basilica News Agency team with Patriarch Daniel on June 5, 2023, the patronal feast of the Basilica Press Centre of the Romanian Patriarchate. Photo credit: Ziarul Lumina / Luigi Ivanciu
A new member has joined the Orthodox community in Sweden: a Chinese woman was baptised by His Grace Macarie, Romanian Orthodox Bishop of Northern Europe. Photo credit: Facebook / Episcopia Europei de Nord
His Beatitude Marc of Neamț, Auxilliary Bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of Western Europe, during his pastoral visit to the “St. John the Baptist” Parish in Grasse, France, together with priest Gontran Poussou. Photo credit: Fr. Gontran Poussou
The tomb of Monk Ilarion Dincă, former abbot of the Romanian “St Hypatius” Chapel on Holy Mount Athos; the 19th commemoration of his death was held on May 31. Photo credit: Sorin-Gabriel Pomană
The remains of the Romanian hymnographer and protopsalter Anton Pann were reburied at Bucharest’s “St Stylianus – Lucaci” Church on June 6, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela Ene
Storytime at the Negoiești Parish kindergarten. Photo credit: Negoiești Parish
Father Ciprian Ioniță, President of the Filantropia charity federation of the Romanian Orthodox Church, accompanied a humanitarian aid transport sent by the Romanian Patriarchate to help people in Syria affected by the earthquake in February 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Meeting of Damascus priests at St. George’s Monastery, Syria. Photo credit: Patriarchate of Antioch
A memorial service for the Romanian psaltic music composer Ion Popescu-Pasărea was held at the Pasărea Monastery, near Bucharest, on June 8, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
A piece of heaven and a prayer corner in the garden of Grădiștea Camp Center, Olt county, Romania. Photo credit: Facebook / Fr. Sandu Constantin
Trivale Monastery in Pitești, Argeș county. Photo: Vasile Ionuț
The Greek Archbishop of Australia received the visit of singer Nikos Oikonomopoulos. Photo credit: Instagram / Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia
Metropolitan Gregory of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, presided over the ordination of the vicar Bishop Isaac of Velbazhd, on June 10, 2023. Photo credit: Bulgarian Patriarchate
Patriarch Daniel of Romania received the graduates of the 1970-1974 class of the “Andrei Saguna” Faculty of Theology in Sibiu, His Beatitude’s former faculty colleagues, at the Patriarchal Residence. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
A reading break in nature. Photo credit: Vasiu
Icon of St. Xenia at Bucharest’s “Holy Hierarch Nicolae – Ghica” Church. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Aurelian Iftimiu
A prayerful shot from the “Holy Cross” Monastery in Mono, Ontario, Canada. Photo credit: “Holy Cross” and “St. Ephraimus the New” Monastery – Mono
Father Arsenie Boca’s retreat cave turned into the Făgăraș Mountains, Romania. Photo credit: Laura Stroe
The church in Nușeni, Bistrița-Năsăud county, Romania, awaiting consecration. Photo credit: Metropolis of Cluj / Darius Echim
His Grace Timotei of Sătmar with a choir of priests at the laying of the foundation stone for a new church in Lăschia Parish of Maramureș county, in northern Romania. Photo credit: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
His Grace Varlaam of Ploiești reconsecrated the parish church in Podenii Vechi, Prahova county, Romania, on June 11, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu

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