The Week in Pictures: November 6 – 12, 2023

Please find our weekly selection of photos from the Orthodox world. The second week of November was embellished by the feast of Holy Hierarch Nektarios and the colours of autumn.

Metropolitan Ioanichie of Montenegro visiting Decani Monastery in Serbia. Photo credit: X / Decani Monastery
Prayer of a mother and her little girl at the icon of the Mother of God. Photo credit: Lavinia Stoica
Rohia Monastery wrapped in autumn clothes. Photo credit: Facebook / Rohia Monastery
A nun on her way to mass at Văleni Monastery, Romania. Photo credit: Robert Alfaescu
The church in Beregsău Mic, Romania, on a rainy autumn day. Photo credit: Cristian Marian Szekeres
The Romanian Patriarchate’s news agency Basilica and Trinitas TV were awarded in the Journalism, Radio and TV category at the Media Radar Awards Gala 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu

 

Gabriel Rădășanu, Psalter of the Patriarchal Cathedral, together with the chanters of the “Old St. George” church in Bucharest, Romania. Photo source: Facebook / Gabriel Rădășanu
Children sing in the pew of a church dedicated to St. Demetrios the New in Samaria, the Holy Land, on November 8, 2023. Photo credit: Facebook / Jerusalem Patriarchate
The church of Sihăstria Neamț Monastery on a sunny November afternoon. Photo credit: Laura Drăghiciu
Acolyte at the Orthodox Romanian Diocesan Chapel in Gothenburg, Sweden. Photo credit: Diocese of Northern Europe
On the feast of the Holy Archangels, the patron saints of the Romanian Gendarmerie, employees of the institution and students of the Police Academy attended the Divine Liturgy. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene
Prosphora prepared for the autumn patronal feast of the Parepa Monastery in the Archdiocese of Bucharest, Romania: Holy Hierarch Nektarios of Aegina. Photo credit: Hierom. Benedict Rusu
Air filled with incense smoke at the vigil in honour of Saint NeKtarios, at Bucharest’s Radu Vodă Monastery. Photo credit: Marian Bratu
Bucharest’s “Buna Vestire-Bellu” Church, where there is a fragment of St Nektarios’ relics is kept. Photo credit: Georgiana Bărîcă
Prayer to Saint Nektarios at Radu Vodă Monastery, Bucharest, Romania. Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene
Detail from the Divine Liturgy celebrated by hierarch at Lazaret Parish in Bacău on November 9, 2023. Photo credit: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
Procession with the relics of St. Nektarios on the island of Aegina, the place where he passed away into the Lord. Photo credit: Metropolis of Hydra, Spetses and Aegina
Metropolitan Peter of Bessarabia at the Sihăstria Putnei Monastery on the feast day of Holy Hierarch Nektarios. Photo credit: Sihăstria Putnei Monastery
Service officiated by the hierarch at the Romanian Orthodox Cathedral in Vârșeț, Serbia. Photo credit: Diocese of Dacia Felix
November sky over Antim Monastery. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Aurelian Iftimiu
Father Justinian Remus Cojocar on a trip to the Balkans with some of the young founding members of the Suceava Orthodox Youth Association. Photo credit: Instagram / atos. suceava
Candles lit by the faithful who came at the patronal feast of Bucharest’s Radu Vodă Monastery. Photo credit: Facebook / Radu Voda Monastery
Detail from the consecration of a chapel dedicated to St. Menas in the town of Velingrad, Bulgaria. Photo credit: bg-patriarshia.bg
A beautiful autumn morning at the Monastery of St. John the Baptist in Lipnița, Romania. Photo credit: Protos. Sofronie Bobaru
Vigil in honour of St. John Chrysostom at the National Cathedral Chapel in Bucharest, Romania, on November 12, 2023. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu

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