{"id":558922,"date":"2026-02-07T19:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=558922"},"modified":"2026-02-07T19:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:07:08","slug":"bishop-balti-prays-bucharest-hierarchs-bessarabia-cernica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/bishop-balti-prays-bucharest-hierarchs-bessarabia-cernica\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop of B\u0103l\u021bi prays for hierarchs who shepherded Bessarabia at Bucharest cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bishop Antonie of B\u0103l\u021bi prayed<\/a> on Thursday for the hierarchs who once shepherded Bessarabia and who are buried at the cemetery of Cernica Monastery, near Bucharest.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bishop Antonie lit a vigil lamp at the graves of Metropolitan Gurie Grosu of Bessarabia (1928\u20131936), Metropolitan Tit Simedrea of Bukovina\u2014who served in B\u0103l\u021bi between 1935 and 1940\u2014and Bishop Efrem En\u0103chescu (1944).<\/p>\n

He asked the hierarchs who served in the Bessarabian lands to intercede before God for the success of the Metropolis of Bessarabia and, in particular, of the Diocese of B\u0103l\u021bi, in their efforts to affirm ecclesial truth on the left bank of the Prut River.<\/p>\n

During his visit to Cernica Monastery, Bishop Antonie also venerated the relics of Saints Callinicus of Cernica, George of Cernica and C\u0103ld\u0103ru\u0219ani, and Dumitru St\u0103niloae<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The bishop expressed his gratitude to the abbot, Archimandrite Vasile P\u00e2rjol, and asked him to remember the people of Bessarabia in the prayers offered at the monastery.<\/p>\n

Photo: Diocese of B\u0103l\u021bi
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Bishop Antonie of B\u0103l\u021bi prayed on Thursday for the hierarchs who once shepherded Bessarabia and who are buried at the cemetery of Cernica Monastery, near Bucharest. Bishop Antonie lit a vigil lamp at the graves of Metropolitan Gurie Grosu of Bessarabia (1928\u20131936), Metropolitan Tit Simedrea of Bukovina\u2014who served in B\u0103l\u021bi between 1935 and 1940\u2014and Bishop…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":558560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[36781,852,9780,2199,25117],"class_list":["post-558922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dioceses","tag-bishop-of-balti","tag-cernica-monastery","tag-metropolis-of-bessarabia","tag-republic-of-moldova","tag-romanian-hierarchs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558922","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=558922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}