{"id":451415,"date":"2023-11-08T15:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=451415"},"modified":"2023-11-08T15:00:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T13:00:58","slug":"the-week-in-pictures-october-30-november-5-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/the-week-in-pictures-october-30-november-5-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week in Pictures: October 30 \u2013 November 5, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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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, Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103lajului<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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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<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The victims of the Colectiv fire were remembered 8 years after the tragedy. Photo credit: Basilica.ro \/ Raluca Ene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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His Grace Sofian of Bra\u0219ov gave a lecture about his spiritual mentor, Elder Teofil P\u0103r\u0103ian, commemorated 14 years after his death. Photo credit: Metropolis of Ardeal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vigil lights and prayers at Bucharest’s Radu Vod\u0103 Monastery. Photo credit: Lavinia Stoica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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End-of-October days at the “Holy Apostles Peter and Paul” Cathedral in Bal\u0219, Romania. Photo credit: Alexandra Iliescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Christ Pantocrator painted on the vault of the Metropolitan Cathedral in Sibiu, Romania. Photo credit: Monk Paisie Vasile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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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 Stanc\u0103<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Metropolitan Nicholas of Plovdiv, with children and faithful at a national celebration dedicated to the Bulgarian Patriarchs. Photo credit: bg-patriarshia.bg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Metropolitan of Ardeal prayed for the souls of the departed at the Church of St. Cosma and Damian in F\u0103g\u0103ra\u0219, Romania, on Saturday, November 4. Photo credit: Metropolis of Ardeal \/ Costin Chesnoiu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The children at Bucharest’s M\u0103r\u021bi\u0219or Church celebrated in advance Saints Archangels Michael and Gabriel, spiritual patrons of this place of worship. Photo credit: Nicoleta Enculescu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Romania: The little semantron Dervent Monastery’s new church, seen in the evening light. Photo credit: Protos. Sofronie Bobaru<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nun at the feast of Holy Apostle James, the Brother of the Lord, celebrated in Jerusalem. Photo credit: Facebook \/ Jerusalem Patriarchate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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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<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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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<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A monument to St John of Kronstadt has been blessed at a church in California, USA. Photo credit: synod.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The church of Bucharest’s “Mihai Vod\u0103” Monastery, photographed on a late autumn day. Photo credit: Laura Dr\u0103ghiciu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Petitions for peace during the Divine Liturgy at Pas\u0103rea Monastery near Bucharest, Romania. Photo credit: Gabriel Drumea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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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<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Two children getting ready to greet His Grace Paisie of Sinaia, Patriarchal Auxiliary Bishop, at Valea Cr\u00e2ngului Parish, Romania. Photo credit: Ziarul Lumina \/ Luigi Ivanciu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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