{"id":556666,"date":"2026-01-22T12:49:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T10:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=556666"},"modified":"2026-01-22T12:49:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T10:49:48","slug":"metropolitan-teofan-true-faith-warning-iasi-monastery-feast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/metropolitan-teofan-true-faith-warning-iasi-monastery-feast\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Teofan warns \u201cno greater illness\u201d than drifting from true faith at Iasi monastery feast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cThere is no greater illness in the Church than drifting away from the true faith,\u201d Metropolitan Teofan of Moldavia and Bucovina said on Sunday, during the <a href=\"https:\/\/doxologia.ro\/obstea-manastirii-copou-sarbatorit-hramul-de-iarna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">patronal feast of the Copou Monastery<\/a> in Ia\u0219i.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The monastic community honoured its patron Saints Athanasius and Cyril, Archbishops of Alexandria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Church has set before us faces of holiness: the Most Holy Mother of God, the heavenly powers and the saints of the Church\u2014among whom today we venerate with particular devotion the great hierarchs, Saints Athanasius and Cyril, protectors of this holy monastery,\u201d Metropolitan Teofan said.<\/p>\n<p>The metropolitan recalled that Saint Basil the Great described Saint Athanasius, Archbishop of Alexandria, as \u201cthe physician for all the illnesses found in the Churches\u201d\u2014that is, the one who preserved the true faith, he explained.<\/p>\n<h2>Defenders of the Creed<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_556235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-556235\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hram-sf-atanasie-si-chiril-manastirea-copou-2026-foto-flavius-popa-wm_31947_0-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-556235 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hram-sf-atanasie-si-chiril-manastirea-copou-2026-foto-flavius-popa-wm_31947_0-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hram-sf-atanasie-si-chiril-manastirea-copou-2026-foto-flavius-popa-wm_31947_0-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hram-sf-atanasie-si-chiril-manastirea-copou-2026-foto-flavius-popa-wm_31947_0-1-890x594.jpg 890w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hram-sf-atanasie-si-chiril-manastirea-copou-2026-foto-flavius-popa-wm_31947_0-1-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hram-sf-atanasie-si-chiril-manastirea-copou-2026-foto-flavius-popa-wm_31947_0-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hram-sf-atanasie-si-chiril-manastirea-copou-2026-foto-flavius-popa-wm_31947_0-1.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-556235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Metropolitan Teofan of Moldavia and Bukovina celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the patronal feast of Copou Monastery on January 17, 2026. Photo: Doxologia.ro \/ Flavius Popa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saint Cyril, meanwhile, is described by Saint Nikolai Velimirovich as \u201cthe seal of the Fathers,\u201d the metropolitan added.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the two saints \u201cfought with their whole being to preserve the Nicene\u2013Constantinopolitan Symbol\u2014namely the Creed\u2014composed in the time of Saint Athanasius the Great, the first part, and the second at the Second Ecumenical Council.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaint Cyril, a participant at the Third Ecumenical Council, was the man sent by God to preserve within the Church the inheritance of the Symbol of Faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay the good God help us to keep the zeal of the holy hierarchs Athanasius and Cyril\u2014the zeal to preserve the right faith\u2014and, as far as we are able, to follow their path, in the hope that God will have mercy on us and that the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, through His divine-human work, will take root within our being and we will live accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_556237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-556237\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hram-sf-atanasie-si-chiril-manastirea-copou-2026-foto-flavius-popa-wm_31981_0-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-556237 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hram-sf-atanasie-si-chiril-manastirea-copou-2026-foto-flavius-popa-wm_31981_0-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hram-sf-atanasie-si-chiril-manastirea-copou-2026-foto-flavius-popa-wm_31981_0-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hram-sf-atanasie-si-chiril-manastirea-copou-2026-foto-flavius-popa-wm_31981_0-1-890x594.jpg 890w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hram-sf-atanasie-si-chiril-manastirea-copou-2026-foto-flavius-popa-wm_31981_0-1-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hram-sf-atanasie-si-chiril-manastirea-copou-2026-foto-flavius-popa-wm_31981_0-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hram-sf-atanasie-si-chiril-manastirea-copou-2026-foto-flavius-popa-wm_31981_0-1.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-556237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protopsaltis Adrian S\u00eerbu led the choir. Photo: Doxologia.ro \/ Flavius Popa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the service, worshippers venerated the reliquary containing the relics of the two saints.<\/p>\n<p>Liturgical responses were provided by the \u201cMystikon\u201d Choir, made up of monastics from Ia\u0219i-area monasteries, conducted by Adrian S\u00eerbu, director of the academic choir \u201cByzantion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the Communion hymn, many faithful and their children received Holy Communion.<\/p>\n<h2>About Copou Monastery<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_556239\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-556239\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/manastirea-copou-din-iasi-isi-serbeaza-hramul-137374.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-556239 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/manastirea-copou-din-iasi-isi-serbeaza-hramul-137374-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/manastirea-copou-din-iasi-isi-serbeaza-hramul-137374-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/manastirea-copou-din-iasi-isi-serbeaza-hramul-137374-890x594.jpg 890w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/manastirea-copou-din-iasi-isi-serbeaza-hramul-137374-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/manastirea-copou-din-iasi-isi-serbeaza-hramul-137374-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/manastirea-copou-din-iasi-isi-serbeaza-hramul-137374.jpg 1062w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-556239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Constantin Ciofu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the site of today\u2019s Copou Monastery once stood a princely estate, where a wooden church previously existed. According to a local tradition, during a Tatar invasion, Lady Tudosca (Theodosia), the wife of Prince Vasile Lupu, hid in a hollow tree trunk.<\/p>\n<p>The ruler searched for his wife and found her in those parts and, in thanksgiving for this deliverance, the Prince of Moldavia decided to build a monastery, consecrated in 1638 by Patriarch Cyril Lucaris of Constantinople.<\/p>\n<h2>About the saints<\/h2>\n<p>Saint Athanasius the Great was born in 296, became the 20th bishop of Alexandria, and remains one of Christianity\u2019s greatest theologians. He is known as a \u201cchampion of Orthodoxy\u201d for his lifelong struggle against Arianism, a heresy that questioned the divinity of Christ the Saviour.<\/p>\n<p>The commemoration of Saint Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria, is observed on June 9. For five years, Cyril lived on Mount Nitria, practising asceticism and purifying himself of passions. His uncle, Patriarch Theophilus, ordained him, and after Patriarch Theophilus fell asleep in the Lord, the clergy and the people elected Cyril patriarch.<\/p>\n<p>Foto credit: Doxologia.ro \/ Flavius Popa<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/basilicanews\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-556506\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Basilica-Telegram-channel-banner-890x149.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Basilica-Telegram-channel-banner-890x149.jpeg 890w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Basilica-Telegram-channel-banner-360x60.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Basilica-Telegram-channel-banner-768x128.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Basilica-Telegram-channel-banner.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is no greater illness in the Church than drifting away from the true faith,\u201d Metropolitan Teofan of Moldavia and Bucovina said on Sunday, during the patronal feast of the Copou Monastery in Ia\u0219i. 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