{"id":508284,"date":"2024-12-05T12:55:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T10:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=508284"},"modified":"2024-12-05T12:55:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T10:55:03","slug":"romanian-parish-in-melbourne-celebrates-patronal-feast-and-romanias-national-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/romanian-parish-in-melbourne-celebrates-patronal-feast-and-romanias-national-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Romanian Parish in Melbourne celebrates patronal feast and Romania\u2019s National Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The \u201cSaint Philothea of Arge\u0219\u201d Parish in Melbourne, Australia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roeanz.com.au\/stiri\/521\">celebrated<\/a> its patronal feast early on Sunday, coinciding with Romania\u2019s National Day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To mark the dual celebration, His Grace Bishop Mihail of Australia and New Zealand presided over the services within the parish community.<\/p>\n<p>After the Divine Liturgy, His Grace led a Te Deum service, expressing gratitude to God for His blessings upon the Romanian people and the parish community.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official website of the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Australia and New Zealand, the event highlighted the strong bond between faith, national identity, and the fellowship of Romanians far from home.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Diocese of Australia and New Zealand<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BasilicaNews\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-495171\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-889x148.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"889\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-889x148.gif 889w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-1024x171.gif 1024w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-1536x256.gif 1536w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-2048x341.gif 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cSaint Philothea of Arge\u0219\u201d Parish in Melbourne, Australia, celebrated its patronal feast early on Sunday, coinciding with Romania\u2019s National Day. To mark the dual celebration, His Grace Bishop Mihail of Australia and New Zealand presided over the services within the parish community. After the Divine Liturgy, His Grace led a Te Deum service, expressing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":508265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[33849,30251],"class_list":["post-508284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diaspora-en","tag-romanias-national-day","tag-romanians-in-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}