16 April <\/p>\n
1822 – Metropolitan Calinic Miclescu was born in Suceava, to an old <\/p>\n
family of boyars. On 18 June 1842, his uncle Sofronie, the future <\/p>\n
Metropolitan of Moldova, tonsured him into monasticism. On 23 April <\/p>\n
1843, he was ordained hierodeacon, hieromonk on 31 November, then <\/p>\n
protosingel and archmandrite on 2 February 1855. From 1851 – 1958, he <\/p>\n
was abbot in Slatina, where he set up a school in M\u0103lini locality, for <\/p>\n
the peasants’ children. He was a member in the Ad Hoc Council, Bishop <\/p>\n
locum tenens in Hu\u0219i (November 1958 – January 1861), and then abbot <\/p>\n
again at Slatina (1861 – 1863), Metropolitan locum tenens of Moldova <\/p>\n
(from 7 May 1863), then on 31 May 1875, he is elected Primate <\/p>\n
Metropolitan, a position that he would hold till his death. On 11 April<\/p>\n
1876, he is elected president of the Senate. During his service, the <\/p>\n
courses of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of Bucharest were begun, the<\/p>\n
Printing House for Church Books was set up and the autocephaly of the <\/p>\n
Romanian Orthodox Church was recognised (1885). On 14 August 1886, he <\/p>\n
passed away, in Bucharest, and buried at Neam\u021b. <\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
16 April 1822 – Metropolitan Calinic Miclescu was born in Suceava, to an old family of boyars. On 18 June 1842, his uncle Sofronie, the future Metropolitan of Moldova, tonsured him into monasticism. On 23 April 1843, he was ordained hierodeacon, hieromonk on 31 November, then protosingel and archmandrite on 2 February 1855. From 1851…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries-and-commemorations"],"yoast_head":"\n