{"id":515563,"date":"2025-02-13T09:14:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T07:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=515563"},"modified":"2025-02-14T17:24:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:24:27","slug":"romanian-bishop-visits-nicaea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/romanian-bishop-visits-nicaea\/","title":{"rendered":"Romanian Bishop visits Nicaea, marking 1700 years since the First Ecumenical Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"96\" data-end=\"415\"><strong>On Monday, Bishop Iustin of Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103tmar visited Nicaea, the city where the First Ecumenical Council was held 1,700 years ago. The visit is part of an extensive pilgrimage from February 6 to 11, covering several monasteries and historic sites in Cappadocia and Asia Minor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"417\" data-end=\"629\">Among the significant stops was the church where the Seventh Ecumenical Council took place in 787, a pivotal moment in Church history that reaffirmed the veneration of icons and condemned the iconoclast heresy.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"631\" data-end=\"798\">Pilgrims also visited Bursa, where they explored the Great Mosque, the first Turkish mosque with multiple domes, considered a major monument of Islamic architecture.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"800\" data-end=\"935\">Over the weekend, the group visited the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople, where they were received by His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"937\" data-end=\"1085\">The Ecumenical Patriarch welcomed the pilgrims and emphasized the close ties between the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Romanian Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1087\" data-end=\"1252\">Bishop Iustin thanked him for the warm reception and noted that the pilgrimage was conducted with the blessing of Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1254\" data-end=\"1620\" data-is-last-node=\"\">As a gesture of appreciation, Bishop Iustin presented the Ecumenical Patriarch with an epitrachelion, an omophorion, a epigonation depicting Saint Joseph the Confessor, a diocesan set of engolpion and cross, a traditional Maramure\u0219 voivodal cross, a photo album of Maramure\u0219 wooden churches, and <em data-start=\"1549\" data-end=\"1573\">The Journal of Joy <\/em>by Fr Nicolae Steinhardt, translated into French.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FEORMMSM%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02bzrNKGS4dSfXy47vnxPFMq8pTfDMJngLZPnsEHFQ6EKapXux4dFSEu4nm7Be9fvdl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"835\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Diocese of Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103tmar<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/basilica.en\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-515707\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/banner-follow-facebook-en-889x148.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"889\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/banner-follow-facebook-en-889x148.gif 889w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/banner-follow-facebook-en-1021x170.gif 1021w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/banner-follow-facebook-en-1536x256.gif 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Bishop Iustin of Maramure\u0219 and S\u0103tmar visited Nicaea, the city where the First Ecumenical Council was held 1,700 years ago. 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