The Week in Pictures: November 18 – 24, 2019

Orthodox lifestyle, luminous portraits and pictures taken at religious events throughout the world comprise this week’s selection of photos.

Still during a lecture held by Fr. Constantin Necula in Iași. Photo: Facebook / St Nicholas College
HG Bishop Atanasie of Bogdania officiated the Vespers at Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna. Photo: Instagram / Romanian Diocese of Italy
Radio personality Daniel Buzdugan met with Fr. Constantin Necula and TV presenter Dan Negru for a cake in Bucharest. Photo: Instagram / Daniel Buzdugan
Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on his 14th enthronement anniversary. Photo: Facebook / Archim Teofil Anastasoaie
On his 62nd birthday, His Grace Bishop Calinic of Botosani received a cake in the form of a Romanian traditional house. Photo: Doxologia
The icon of Saint Gregory Decapolite at Bistrița Monastery on the Saint’s feast day. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene
Ordination of a deacon performed by Patriarch Daniel at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Children dressed in folk costumes at the patronal feast of the Vovidenia Church in Galaţi. Photo: Facebook / Lower Danube Archdiocese
Members of the Royal Family praying for King Michael I during a memorial service marking 2 years since the death of Romania’s last monarch. Photo: Archdiocese of Argeș & Muscel
Members of the Orthodox Community in Helsinki covered with flowers the anti-Semitic paintings on the walls of the Synagogue in the capital of Finland. Photo: ort.fi
Relics of Saint Dionysius the Bishop of Cetatea Alba and Ismail were carried in procession on the streets of Cahul, Republic of Moldova. Photo: Facebook / Diocese of Southern Bessarabia
Fashion designer Florin Dobre posted a picture of his godson after Baptism. Photo: Facebook / Florin Dobre
Mother Marina from the Iezer Hermitage playing with a cat on the feast day of St. Anthony of Iezerul Vâlcii, the monastery’s protector Saint. The nun is 84 years old, 65 of which being spent in this monastery. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene

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