The Week in Pictures: May 5 – 11, 2025

Throughout every corner of the Orthodox world, the faith is manifested in form and colour through gestures, prayers, encounters, and events of profound spiritual meaning.

From patriarchal visits and interreligious dialogues to moments of prayer, commemoration, and hope, the Church lives and expresses itself through persons, places, and acts of faith. Through this new series of images, we invite you to discover the heartbeat of a week rich in spiritual significance and contemporary realities.

A multitude of children came to pray to Saint Ephraim the New on May 5, 2025, at Bucharest’s Radu Vodă Monastery, where a relic of the saint is kept. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela Ene

Little Nektarios is on a pilgrimage to the Monastery of Saint Ephraim in Greece on May 5, 2025. Photo: Corina Anghel

Romania’s National Cathedral bathed in sunrise light. Photo: Basilica.ro / Archdeacon Nicolae Iftimiu
Procession with the icon of Holy Great Martyr George at Zografu Monastery on May 6, 2025. Photo: Bulgarian Patriarchate
The nuns of the Pădureni Monastery, Romania, celebrated its patron saint, Holy Apostle and Evangelist John, on the saint’s feast day, May 8, 2025. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj / Darius Echim
Prayer before the holy relics of Saint Matrona the Blind at Bucharest’s Darvari Monastery. Photo: Basilica.ro / Archdeacon Nicolae Iftimiu
Hierarchical Divine Liturgy celebrated at the Tulcea Penitentiary in Romania on May 8, 2025. Photo: Diocese of Tulcea
The tomb of Saint Sophrony at the Monastery of Saint John the Baptist in Essex, England. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela Ene
The monastic synaxis of the Metropolis of Moldavia and Bukovina was held at the Diocesan Centre in Roman, Romania, on May 8, 2025. Photo: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
A moment of respite beneath the icon of the Saviour at the Essex Monastery, on May 9, 2025. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela Ene
Solemn Divine Liturgy and prayer on the occasion of the 72nd anniversary of the restoration of the Bulgarian Patriarchate, on May 10, 2025. Photo: Bulgarian Patriarchate
Bishop Iustin of Maramureș and Sătmar holding a local little girl. Photo: Diocese of Maramureș and Sătmar
His Eminence Athanasie, the first Romanian Orthodox Archbishop of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, was enthroned at the new Romanian Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral in London’s Enfield neighbourhood. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela Ene
His Beatitude Porfirije, Patriarch of Serbia, blessed an infant on May 11, 2025. Photo: Serbian Patriarchate
The faithful of the “Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel” Parish in Beudiu, Bistrița-Năsăud County, Romania, took part in the reconsecration of their church on May 11, 2025. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj / Darius Echim
The Patriarch of Jerusalem went on a pastoral visit to Nazareth on May 11, 2025. Photo: Jerusalem Patriarchate
The Girdle of the Mother of God from Vatopaidi Monastery on Mount Athos was brought for veneration to the city of Karditsa, Greece, on May 11, 2025. Photo: Orthodoxia News Agency
Young acolyte serving at the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral in Enfield, London. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela Ene
A squirrel captured near the resting place of Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh at Brompton Cemetery, London. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela Ene
Romania’s National Day of Traditional Dress was celebrated in many places, including at Bucharest’s  “Saint Spyridon” – the New Metropolitan Cathedral on May 11, 2025. Photo: Ziarul Lumina / Mircea Popa
A conference dedicated to the Holy Priest-Martyr Liviu Galaction of Cluj, a victim of the communist persecution in Romania, was held at a parish in Bacău, Romania, on May 11, 2025. Photo: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău

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