{"id":567260,"date":"2026-04-15T16:12:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=567260"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:12:39","slug":"romanian-priest-tunisia-easter-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/romanian-priest-tunisia-easter-diaspora\/","title":{"rendered":"Romanian ambassador thanks Patriarchate for sending priest to serve diaspora in Tunisia at Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>His Excellency Valentin Ciprian Muntean, Romania\u2019s ambassador to the Republic of Tunisia, expressed his gratitude on Tuesday to the Romanian Patriarchate for temporarily assigning a Romanian priest to serve during Easter alongside Metropolitan Meletios of Carthage and North Africa (Patriarchate of Alexandria) and local Orthodox clergy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI place great importance on Romanian spirituality, and I wanted us to draw closer to the Church and to home through the presence of Romanian priests in Tunis,\u201d the ambassador wrote on a social network.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is the least the Embassy of Romania in Tunis can do to support the Romanian community in Tunisia from a spiritual and identity perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank the Romanian Patriarchate and His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church, for the love and fatherly care shown over time to our community in Tunisia,\u201d Ambassador Valentin Ciprian Muntean also said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"ro\">Cristos a \u00cenviat!<br \/>\nCe bucurie s\u0103 \u00eel avem \u00een mijlocul comunit\u0103\u021bii noastre rom\u00e2ne\u0219ti, de Pa\u0219te, aici la Tunis, pe P\u0103rintele Metodiu Florian Bold.<br \/>\nO bucurie cre\u0219tineasc\u0103 la care \u021bin neaparat s\u0103 devin\u0103 o tradi\u021bie peste ani. Este al treilea an consecutiv c\u00e2nd avem un preot rom\u00e2n\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hNhoTyjqGA\">pic.twitter.com\/hNhoTyjqGA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 valentin muntean (@ValiMuntean2023) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ValiMuntean2023\/status\/2044032075011956851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Alleviating homesickness in the church<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_567222\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-567222\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lacas-de-rugaciune-intr-un-asezamant-pentru-varstnici-din-ilfov-267031.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-567222 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lacas-de-rugaciune-intr-un-asezamant-pentru-varstnici-din-ilfov-267031-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lacas-de-rugaciune-intr-un-asezamant-pentru-varstnici-din-ilfov-267031-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lacas-de-rugaciune-intr-un-asezamant-pentru-varstnici-din-ilfov-267031-890x501.jpg 890w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lacas-de-rugaciune-intr-un-asezamant-pentru-varstnici-din-ilfov-267031-360x203.jpg 360w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lacas-de-rugaciune-intr-un-asezamant-pentru-varstnici-din-ilfov-267031-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/lacas-de-rugaciune-intr-un-asezamant-pentru-varstnici-din-ilfov-267031.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-567222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Father Metodiu Florian Bold. Photo: Lumina Newspaper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This year, Father Metodiu Florian Bold, a chaplain at the Asertivo Residential Care Home for the Elderly in Otopeni, Ilfov County, was delegated to Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>At the Easter services, the Romanian priest served alongside Metropolitan Meletios of Carthage and North Africa (Patriarchate of Alexandria), and Romanians in Tunis were able to confess in Romanian to receive Holy Communion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year there was a priest from Cluj, and this year I am the one going to offer spiritual support to those who work in Tunis or who are visiting during this period,\u201d the cleric told Radio Romania International. \u201cThe longing for home and for loved ones is very strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Romanian priest was present in the capital of Tunisia from April 10 to April 14, during which time the Romanian Embassy also organised a luncheon for members of the Romanian community.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Orthodox Cathedral in Tunis. Credit: Facebook \/ \u0395\u03bb\u03bb\u03b7\u03bd\u03b9\u03ba\u03ae \u039a\u03bf\u03b9\u03bd\u03cc\u03c4\u03b7\u03c4\u03b1 \u03a4\u03c5\u03bd\u03b7\u03c3\u03af\u03b1\u03c2 &#8211; Greek Community of Tunisia<\/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>His Excellency Valentin Ciprian Muntean, Romania\u2019s ambassador to the Republic of Tunisia, expressed his gratitude on Tuesday to the Romanian Patriarchate for temporarily assigning a Romanian priest to serve during Easter alongside Metropolitan Meletios of Carthage and North Africa (Patriarchate of Alexandria) and local Orthodox clergy. \u201cI place great importance on Romanian spirituality, and I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":567227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[37253,37250,36655,20389,37251,37252],"class_list":["post-567260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diaspora-en","tag-ambassador-valentin-ciprian-muntean","tag-embassy-of-romania-in-tunis","tag-holy-pascha-2026","tag-romanians-abroad","tag-romanians-in-tunisia","tag-tunisia-easter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567260","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=567260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}