{"id":574116,"date":"2026-06-01T15:29:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=574116"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:29:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T12:29:33","slug":"metropolitan-petru-retirement-teofan-interim-head-bessarabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/metropolitan-petru-retirement-teofan-interim-head-bessarabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Petru seeks retirement; Metropolitan Teofan named interim head of Bessarabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Regarding the situation in the Metropolis of Bessarabia, we wish to clarify that on 27 May 2026, His Eminence Metropolitan <a href=\"https:\/\/patriarhia.ro\/en\/holy-synod\/petru-archbishop-of-chisinau-metropolitan-of-basarabia-and-exarch-of-the-territories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Petru<\/a>, Archbishop of Chi\u0219in\u0103u and Metropolitan of Bessarabia, submitted his request to retire from the ministry of Archbishop and Metropolitan due to age, health considerations, and for the good of the Church. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The request will be presented for approval during the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church&#8217;s working session on 3\u20134 June 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In this context, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel has appointed His Eminence Metropolitan <a href=\"https:\/\/patriarhia.ro\/en\/holy-synod\/teofan-archbishop-of-iasi-and-metropolitan-of-moldavia-and-bukovina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teofan<\/a>, Archbishop of Ia\u0219i and Metropolitan of Moldavia and Bukovina, as Locum Tenens of the Archdiocese of Chi\u0219in\u0103u and the Metropolis of Bessarabia until the statutory election of a new Archbishop of Chi\u0219in\u0103u and Metropolitan of Bessarabia.<\/p>\n<p>Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Basilica.ro files<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding the situation in the Metropolis of Bessarabia, we wish to clarify that on 27 May 2026, His Eminence Metropolitan Petru, Archbishop of Chi\u0219in\u0103u and Metropolitan of Bessarabia, submitted his request to retire from the ministry of Archbishop and Metropolitan due to age, health considerations, and for the good of the Church. The request will&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":437648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[37632,9780,22455,4336,16460,2199,37633,25117],"class_list":["post-574116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-bessarabia-metropolitan-election","tag-metropolis-of-bessarabia","tag-metropolitan-petru","tag-metropolitan-teofan","tag-patriarhia-romana-en","tag-republic-of-moldova","tag-retirement-request","tag-romanian-hierarchs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574116","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=574116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}