The Week in Pictures: October 30 – November 5, 2023

Please find below a selection of photos from the Orthodox world: from several areas of Romania, but also from religious events in Bulgaria, Israel, Poland, USA, Serbia or Greece.

Prayers were offered for Archbishop Justinian Chira’s soul on the 7th yearly commemoration of his passing away into the Lord. Photo credit: Facebook / Metropolitanate of Cluj, Maramureș and Sălajului
Old photographs of St Sophronius of Essex were exhibited at a conference organised in Serbia by the foundation of the Athonite monastery Hilandar. Photo credit: Facebook / Holy Monastery Hilandar Foundation
The victims of the Colectiv fire were remembered 8 years after the tragedy. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene
His Grace Sofian of Brașov gave a lecture about his spiritual mentor, Elder Teofil Părăian, commemorated 14 years after his death. Photo credit: Metropolis of Ardeal
Vigil lights and prayers at Bucharest’s Radu Vodă Monastery. Photo credit: Lavinia Stoica
End-of-October days at the “Holy Apostles Peter and Paul” Cathedral in Balș, Romania. Photo credit: Alexandra Iliescu
Christ Pantocrator painted on the vault of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Sibiu, Romania. Photo credit: Monk Paisie Vasile
Koliva prepared for the feast of St David of Evvia on November 1, 2023, at the St Spyridonus – New Metropolitan Cathedral in Bucharest. Photo credit: Mariana Stancă
Metropolitan Nicholas of Plovdiv, with children and faithful at a national celebration dedicated to the Bulgarian Patriarchs. Photo credit: bg-patriarshia.bg
The Metropolitan of Ardeal prayed for the souls of the departed at the Church of St. Cosma and Damian in Făgăraș, Romania, on Saturday, November 4. Photo credit: Metropolis of Ardeal / Costin Chesnoiu
The children at Bucharest’s Mărțișor Church celebrated in advance Saints Archangels Michael and Gabriel, spiritual patrons of this place of worship. Photo credit: Nicoleta Enculescu
Romania: The little semantron Dervent Monastery’s new church, seen in the evening light. Photo credit: Protos. Sofronie Bobaru
Nun at the feast of Holy Apostle James, the Brother of the Lord, celebrated in Jerusalem. Photo credit: Facebook / Jerusalem Patriarchate
Group photo of the acolytes at the end of the Divine Liturgy celebrated in “St Nicholas” Cathedral in Bialystok, Poland, on the feast day for Holy Apostle Jacob, the Brother of the Lord. Photo credit: orthodox.pl / Adam Matyszczyk
His Grace Timotei of Prahova prays over the coffin with a fragment of the relics of Holymartyr George, offered to a Bucharest parish by the Colciu Cell in Mount Athos. Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Mircea Florescu
A monument to St John of Kronstadt has been blessed at a church in California, USA. Photo credit: synod.com
The church of Bucharest’s “Mihai Vodă” Monastery, photographed on a late autumn day. Photo credit: Laura Drăghiciu
Petitions for peace during the Divine Liturgy at Pasărea Monastery near Bucharest, Romania. Photo credit: Gabriel Drumea
On November 5, the casket of St. Great Martyr Dimitrios was opened in the Thessaloniki athedral and the myrrh gushing around the date of the saint’s feast was collected. Photo credit: Metropolitanate of Thessaloniki
Two children getting ready to greet His Grace Paisie of Sinaia, Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop, at Valea Crângului Parish, Romania. Photo credit: Ziarul Lumina / Luigi Ivanciu

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