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Message of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church at the anniversary of 5 years of activity of Basilica News Agency, Sunday, 16 June 2013: Having known the fact that the announcement of the Word of God represents for the Church her primordial vocation (Matthew 28: 18-20, Acts 1:8, etc) the new technology…

Jun 16, 2013basilica.ro

Basilica – News Agency – 5 Years of Activity

Sunday, 16 June 2013, Basilica News Agency of the Romanian Patriarchate celebrates five years of activity. The agency is part of the Basilica Press Centre – Department for Communications and Public Relations of the Patriarchal Administration – and it is the only member of the Press Centre of its name, Basilica. This media institution was…

Jun 15, 2013basilica.ro

15 june 1971 – Bischop Emilian Antal passed away

Jun 15, 2013basilica.ro

15 june 1889 – Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu passed away in Bucharest

Jun 15, 2013basilica.ro

Feast of the Ascension of the Lord at the Patriarchal Cathedral

Today, 13 June 2013, the Orthodox Church celebrated the Ascension of the Lord and the Day of the Heroes. In all the places of worship from the country and abroad, after the Divine Liturgy, remembrance services were celebrated for those who sacrificed themselves for defending the Romanian people. At the Patriarchal Cathedral the religious service…

Jun 13, 2013basilica.ro

12 iunie 1990 – passed away at Cernica Monastery Archimandrite Ghiuș Benedict

Jun 12, 2013basilica.ro

Ascension of the Lord – Day of the Heroes, National Feast of the Romanian People (13 June 2013)

In the Romanian Orthodox Church the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord (13 June 2013) is the remembrance day of the heroes of the Romanian nation. At the royal feast of the Ascension of the Lord, the Romanian heroes, soldiers and fighters of all times and places, who sacrificed themselves in battlefields, labour camps…

Jun 11, 2013basilica.ro

The Blind Man Healed Becomes a Teacher for All of Us

Today, 9 June 2013, the 6th Sunday after the Holy Easter, the evangelical text on the healing of the blind born man was read in all churches. His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church emphasised in the sermon delivered in the chapel dedicated to “Saint Great Martyr George” the teaching of the evangelical…

Jun 9, 2013basilica.ro

The Romanian Patriarchate expresses solidarity with the Patriarchate of Antioch

While noticing that – from April 22, 2013, when His Eminence Metropolitan PAUL of Aleppo and Alexandretta, from the Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, and His Eminence Metropolitan GREGORIOS YOHANNA IBRAHIM of Aleppo, from the Syrian Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, were kidnapped while spiritually assisting the Arabic Christian community…

Jun 7, 2013basilica.ro

The Clergy of Bucharest and Ilfov on a Conference at the Patriarchate Palace

Monday, 3 June 2013, the first session of the spring semestral pastoral – missionary Conference of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Bucharest was held in the “Patriarch Teoctist” Aula Magna of the Patriarchate Palace, on the theme Saints Constantine and Helen – promoters of the religious freedom and supporters of the Church. The conference…

Jun 3, 2013basilica.ro

Praying in the Spirit and Truth Means Praying in the Presence of the Holy Spirit

Today, 2 June 2013 His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church delivered a sermon in the historical chapel of Saint Great Martyr George of the Patriarchal Residence in which he explained the significance of the Evangelical pericope of the 5th Sunday after Easter, of Saint John the Evangelist, chapter 4:5-42, also named the…

Jun 2, 2013basilica.ro