Saturday, 13 February 2016, the working session of the Eparchial Assembly of the Archdiocese of Bucharest was held at the Patriarchal Residence, under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n
On this occasion, before the opening the Eparchial Assembly, His Grace Timotei of Prahova, Assistant Bishop to the Archdiocese of Bucharest, celebrated at 8.30 a.m., a Te Deum<\/em> service in the Patriarchal Cathedral, assisted by a group of priests and deacons. His Grace Varlaam of Ploie\u015fti, Assistant Bishop to the Patriarch, and His Grace Ieronim of Sinaia, Assistant Bishop to the Patriarch, attended the service. <\/p>\n According to articles 90-94 of the Statute for the Organisation and Functioning of the Romanian Orthodox Church, the Eparchial Assembly is the deliberative body for all the administrative, cultural, social and philanthropic, economic and patrimonial issues of the eparchy, consisting of 30 representatives of the clergy and laity (10 priests and 20 lay persons) elected for a 4 years period.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saturday, 13 February 2016, the working session of the Eparchial Assembly of the Archdiocese of Bucharest was held at the Patriarchal Residence, under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church. On this occasion, before the opening the Eparchial Assembly, His Grace Timotei of Prahova, Assistant Bishop to the Archdiocese of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-romanian-patriarchate"],"yoast_head":"\n