The Week in Pictures: March 11 – 17, 2024

Spring arrival, liturgical moments and Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria‘s funeral are just a few of the themes for last week’s photo selection made by our team.

Coșoteni Monastery in the county of Teleorman, Romania, at dusk. Photo credit: Coșoteni Monastery
Springtime at Cernica Monastery on March 12, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Emanuela Ene
Metropolitan Shio of Senaki and Chkorotsku participated in the launch of volumes from the series “Hymn to Georgia – an Anthology” on March 14, 2014. Photo credit: Georgian Patriarchate
Cultural bee organized at a school in Călărași county, Romania, within the National Catechetic Project “Christ – the Healing Word”. Photo credit: Sorin Ioan Staicu
Blossomed Magnolia tree at Radu Vodă Monastery in Bucharest, Romania. Photo credit: Elena Dinulescu
Priests from Brăila Deanery, Romania, donated blood on March 14, 2024. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Lower Danube
Romania: Winter is not ready to leave Putna Monastery yet. Photo credit: Putna Monastery
Cernica Monastery near Bucharest, Romania, in Spring sunlight. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Emanuela Ene
Metropolitan Teofan of Moldova and Bukovina talking to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I in Sofia, Bulgaria, on March 16, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Hierod. Nicolae Iftimiu
Fog shrowds Comana Monastery on March 17, 2024. Photo credit: Comana Monastery
Children were brought by their parents to Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria’s funerals on March 16, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Emanuela Ene
Procession with Patriarch Neophyte’s body towards the burial place at the Nedelya Metropolitan Cathedral in Sofia on March 16, 2024. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca Emanuela Ene
External fresco at Cotmeana Monastery in Romania, Argeș county. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Argeș and Muscel
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I pays His Sanctity’s last homages to Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria on March 16, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Emanuela Ene
Procession with Venerable Paraskeva’s vestment in Roman, Romania, on March 16, 2024. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
The delegation of the Romanian Patriarchate to the funeral of Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria on March 16, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Emanuela Ene
Antidoron preparation at Comana Monastery, Romania, on the Sunday of the Expulsion from Heaven, March 17, 2024. Photo credit: Comana Monastery
Many children were brought by their parents to the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, Romania, on the Sunday of the Expulsion from Heaven, March 17, 2024. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
The Forgiveness Vespers, on March 16, 2024, before the Sunday of the Expulsion from Heaven, at the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Roman, Romania. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău

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