The Week in Pictures: October 10 -16, 2022

Venerable Paraskeva was celebrated in many Romanian churches: see some shots in our weekly photo feature for October 10 -16, 2022.

Autumnal view of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Sibiu, Romania. Photo: Iulia Cid
On October 12, 2022, Archim. Efrem, Abbot of Holy Mount Athos’ Vatopaidi Monastery, spoke at a Theology congress held at the Patriarchal Palace in Bucharest, Romania. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
“Prayer makes the world go round” is the message written in Romanian on a window covered with steam. Photo: Lori Gia
Preparations at the open-air altar before the liturgy officiated for the feast of St Paraskeva next to the Metropolitan Cathedral in Iași, Romania, on October 13, 2022. Photo: Facebook / SC Servicii Publice Iași SA
Pilgrims participating in the festivities dedicated to St Paraskeva of Iași wanted to capture shots of the synax of hierarchs celebrating the Divine Liturgy. Photo: Doxologia / Fr Silviu Cluci
Midnight service at the Timișeni-Șag Monastery in the county of Timiș, Romania. Photo: Adrian Anitas
The Lunca la Tisa Ukrainian Parish in northern Romania celebrated its patronal feast, the Protection of the Mother of God, according to the unrevised calendar and in the Ukrainian language, on October 14, 2022. Photo: Facebook / Vicariatul Ortodox Ucrainean
A child participating in the Iași Pilgrimage looks at a little icon. Photo: Doxologia / Oana Nechifor
Night liturgy in honour of St Paraskeva at the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Suceava, Romania. Photo: Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți / Irina Ursachi
Procession for the feast of the “Unexpected Joy” Icon of the Mother of God in Hajnówka, Poland. Photo: Orthodox Church of Poland
Fr Valerian Grecu preached on the confessors and martyrs of the Communist prisons at Draxeni Parish in the Romanian county of Vaslui. Photo: Daniel Brodoceanu
The Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle was offered to the Ecumenical Patriarchate archons. Photo: Facebook / Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
Faithful of Bucharest’s Drumul Taberei neighbourhood honoured the vestment of St Paraskeva at Bucharest’s “Holy Friday” Parish, protected by the saint. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
Patriarch Daniel and the Royal Family of Romania viewed the “Coronation Parade” organized in the Romanian city of Alba Iulia on October 15, 2022, to mark 100 years since the Coronation of King Ferdinand and Queen Mary, the first sovereigns of Greater Romania. Photo: Archdiocese of Alba Iulia
Blessing of the fruit at the Semlac Parish in Arad county, Romania, on October 16, 2022. Photo: Archdiocese of Arad
Faithful of the Șerboieni Parish in the county of Argeș, Romania, participated in the second blessing of their church after renovation works. Photo: Archdiocese of Argeș and Muscel / Cristian Gheorghe
Patriarch Porfirije of Serbia embracing a child in Vukovar, Croatia, on October 16, 2022. Photo: Twitter / Decani Monastery
Serbian Prince Filip Karadjordjevic participated in the Divine Liturgy celebrated at Dečani Monastery in Kosovo. Photo: Twitter / Filip Karadjordjevic
A bust of Greater Romania’s King Ferdinand I was inaugurated and blessed in Orhei, the Republic of Moldova, on October 16, 2022. As Bessarabians had voted to reunite with their fellow Romanians in 1918, the king was also their sovereign after the Union of all Romanian provinces was completed. Photo: Facebook / Sergiu Aga

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