Dioceses

2022 priorities in Suceava Archdiocese: Hermitage to be built where Elder Cleopa hid in mountains

A priority of the Suceava and Rădăuți Archdiocese for this year is to start building a skete at Vadu Negrilesei, in Stânișoara Mountains, where Elder Cleopa Ilie withdrew for some years, away from the communist regime. As the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church is considering canonization of the elder in 2025, the Eparchy…

Jan 25, 2022Ștefana Totorcea

140th anniversary of repose of St Antipas the Athonite of Calapodești celebrated in Roman

Saint Antipas of Calapodești was honoured at the Cathedral in Roman with an all-night vigil and Divine Liturgy. This year marked the 140th anniversary of the blessed repose of Saint Antipas, the patron saint of a chapel of the Archdiocesan Cathedral in Roman, Neamt County. “Saint Antipas is also present and honoured in the synaxaria…

Jan 13, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Suceava Archdiocese donates 9 tons of food to 500 families for Christmas

Thanks to the efforts of the Social-Philanthropic Department and the Anastasie Crimca Foundation of the Archdiocese of Suceava and Rădăuți, 500 families were blessed with food for Christmas. Over the last two months of the year, the archdiocese arranged five charity concerts with the participation of 43 vocal groups and artistic ensembles. The concerts raised…

Jan 12, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Archbishop Teodosie performs Great Blessing of Waters on Black Sea shores: “Fear not future waves”

On the feast of Theophany, His Eminence Archbishop Teodosie officiated the Great Blessing of Waters on the seafront at the Tomis Harbour, expressing his hope that we will get through this difficult period: “May we have joy all year long, and let us not be afraid of the future waves. With God, we are above…

Jan 11, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Bessarabia Metropolitan Petru urges respect for all born and unborn children in his Christmas encyclical

“The Church defends the unborn life because it looks with love to every woman who must give birth to children,” Metropolitan Petru of Bessarabia notes in his Christmas encyclical. “God’s sign is the child,” His Eminence explains referring to the sign promised by God to the Prophet Isiah and by the angels to the shepherds.…

Jan 7, 2022Aurelian Iftimiu

Deva’s new bishop enthroned: I owe bishop Gurie my entire spiritual and professional growth

His Grace Bishop Nestor was enthroned as new bishop of Deva and Hunedoara during a ceremony at St Nicholas Cathedral in Deva on December 26, 2021. Being an assistant bishop for the diocese of Deva and Hunedoara for less than a year, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church elected bp Nestor as new…

Dec 30, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Anti-communist martyrs from December 1989 commemorated in Bucharest’s Revolution Square

A commemoration service was officiated on Wednesday in Bucharest’s Romanian Revolution Square. Prayers were offered for the martyrs who fought for freedom during the last days of the Nicolae Ceauşescu’s communist regime. The religious ceremony was held after the state anthem. “We have officiated a commemoration service for the maryrs of the Romanian December 1989…

Dec 24, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Transylvanian priest offers his parish house to a family with 8 children

Father Ionuț Timoce, a Transylvanian parish priest, offered his parish house to family with eight children recently left homeless after the owner ended their tenancy by selling the house. Reghin Deanery got involved in providing a home to the Balazs family. The eight children are aged 4 to 18, their father is a taxi driver…

Dec 23, 2021Ștefana Totorcea

Bishop Justin: Christmas is not magic. Christmas is life, truth, reality

In his speech on Sunday at the Orthodox Cathedral of Baia Mare, His Grace Bishop Justin of Maramureș and Sătmar spoke about the spiritual and historical reality of the Feast of the Nativity, which contrasts with the new trends of limiting the religious message. Bishop Justin spoke to the faithful about the dangers of false…

Dec 16, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Banat Metropolitan Ioan donates hundreds of kilograms of food for refugees

Many migrants, mainly Afghans, transit Romania’s western city of Timisoara on their way to the West. The Orthodox Church and local organizations offer them help as winter draws near. His Eminence Metropolitan Ioan of Banat has constantly donated hundreds of kilograms of food for migrants. The metropolitan said that he saw Romanians in the same…

Dec 16, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu

Bishop Nestor receives the Synod’s vote again: Joy is no longer the same. It is a comforting balm over a sorrowful heart

His Grace Nestor was elected on Thursday by the Holy Synod in the dignity of Bishop of Deva and Hunedoara, succeeding Bishop Gurie Georgiu of blessed memory. His Grace received the vote of the synodal members for the second time this year, after being elected Assistant Bishop to the Diocese of Deva on February 25.…

Dec 16, 2021Aurelian Iftimiu