Please find below the latest edition of our “Week in Pictures” Orthodox photo feature.
Sunrise at Comana Monastery on September 19, 2022. Photo: Comana Monastery / Dragoș GrigoreThe Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I participates in the Vigil officiated on the feast of St Eustatius on September 20, 2022. Photo: Ecumenical Patriarchate / Nikos PapachristouPrayer and spiritual peace at the “Dormition of the Mother of God” Church in Câmpia Turzii, Romania. Photo: Facebook / Tudor CălinMounting a huge mosaic icon on the wall of Romania’s National Cathedral in Bucharest. Photo: Daniel CodrescuRainbow at the Ecumenical Patriarchate headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey. Photo: Facebook / Nikos PapachristouFreshly-baked prosphora. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela EneA monk quietly watches the cemetery of the Sihăstria Neamț Monastery in Romania. Photo: Valentina StănoaieThe feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God in Jerusalem on September 21, 2022. Photo: Jerusalem PatriarchateThe Romanian city of Fălticeni commemorated the heroes who protected it from Bolsheviks: 100 years from the inauguration of the Second Regimen of Border Patrol Heroes. Photo: Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți / Irina UrsachiBrotherly love at Bucharest’s “St Panteleimon by the Fire Tower” Church on September 22, 2022. Photo: Basilica.ro / Raluca-Emanuela EneHis Grace Sofian of Brașov with the acolytes of the “St Silouan the Athonite” Romanian Orthodox Parish in Tübingen, Germany. Photo: Romulus-Valentin BăluțăA flock of birds flying over the Metropolitan Cathedral in Sibiu, Romania. Photo: Ionuț DrangaBucharest’s Mărcuța Parish lighted by the sun after rain on September 23, 2022. Photo: Basilica.ro / Mircea FlorescuA little girl is carefully examining the holy water pavilion from the “Nativity of the Mother of God” Parish in Ploiești, Romania. Photo: Fr Marian ConstantinescuHis Grace Iustin sounds the bell he has just blessed at the “Lord’s Epiphany” Parish in Roșiori, the northern-Romanian county of Maramureș, on September 25, 2022. Photo: Diocese of Maramureș and SătmarThousands of faithful participated in the Divine Liturgy celebrated by Metropolitan Andrei, Bishop Ignatie and Auxiliary Bishop Benedict of Bistrița at the reconsecration of the “Holy Archangels Michael and Gabriel” Church in Cluj on September 25, 2022. Photo: Metropolis of Cluj / Darius EchimPatriarch Porfirije of Serbia donated blood in a campaign organized by the Orthodox Serbian Church. Photo: spc.rsA new social centre was inaugurated in the town of Gutinaș, Bacău county, Romania, on September 25, 2022. Photo: Archdiocese of Roman and Bacău
Do you want to be featured in our weekly selection of photos?
We would gladly include one of your photos depicting Orthodox life in our weekly selection. All you have to do is send the picture(s) you have taken to our email address [foto @ basilica.ro] along with a short description. Please mention WIP (Week in Pictures) in the email subject line. Please note that every WIP article will include photos taken in the previous week.
On Wednesday, 3 June 2026, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church convened for a working session in the “Patriarch Teoctist” Aula Magna of the Patriarchal Palace, under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch…
As part of the Romanian Orthodox Church’s Commemorative Year of Holy Women in the Calendar, Basilica.ro continues its Digital Matericon series, a monthly project dedicated to presenting the lives and spiritual legacy of women saints…
The local proclamation of the canonisation of St Philothea of Pasărea and St Elizabeth of Pasărea will take place on 5 June 2026. To mark the occasion, an extensive liturgical programme will be held at…
Orthodox Christians are observing a fast-free week, during which there is no fasting on Wednesday or Friday, before the beginning of the Fast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. This year, the fast will…
Romanian heroes of the First World War were commemorated by Metropolitan Iosif at Soultzmatt, France. The event was organised by several Romanian Orthodox communities in the region. The commemoration took place on Saturday at the…