{"id":574588,"date":"2026-06-03T14:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=574588"},"modified":"2026-06-03T14:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:20:24","slug":"romanian-orthodox-synod-retirement-metropolitan-petru-bessarabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/romanian-orthodox-synod-retirement-metropolitan-petru-bessarabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Romanian Orthodox Synod accepts retirement of Metropolitan Petru of Bessarabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Wednesday, 3 June 2026, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church convened for a working session in the \u201cPatriarch Teoctist\u201d Aula Magna of the Patriarchal Palace, under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Holy Synod approved the retirement of Metropolitan Petru P\u0103duraru from his ministry as Archbishop of Chi\u0219in\u0103u, Metropolitan of Bessarabia and Exarch of the Territories, thereby ending his administrative, liturgical and pastoral activity.<\/p>\n<p>The Chancellery of the Holy Synod will immediately begin the statutory procedures required for the election of a new Archbishop of Chi\u0219in\u0103u, Metropolitan of Bessarabia and Exarch of the Territories.<\/p>\n<p>Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate<br \/>\n<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>On Wednesday, 3 June 2026, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church convened for a working session in the \u201cPatriarch Teoctist\u201d Aula Magna of the Patriarchal Palace, under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel. The Holy Synod approved the retirement of Metropolitan Petru P\u0103duraru from his ministry as Archbishop of Chi\u0219in\u0103u, Metropolitan of&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":[52,9780,22455,16460],"class_list":["post-574588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-holy-synod","tag-metropolis-of-bessarabia","tag-metropolitan-petru","tag-patriarhia-romana-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574588","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=574588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574588\/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=574588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}