On Wednesday, His Grace Ioan Casian officiated a Night Vigil at the Romanian Orthodox Diocesan Cathedral in Saint-Hubert, Québec, in honour of Holy Hierarch Gregory, Metropolitan of Wallachia. The Romanian bishop was joined in the religious service by Protosyncellus Maxim Morariu, Ecclesiarch of the Cathedral, and by Fathers Traian Petre and Daniel Ungureanu. The liturgical…
HG Ioan Casian, Bishop of Canada, visited the Romanians from Boian, in the Canadian Province of Alberta. The hierarch’s visit came a week after a fire consumed the historic church of the community. Bishop Ioan Casian prayed at the site of the burnt church and participated in a meeting which aimed to determine the next…
The “Colours of Orthodoxy” photo contest promotes Greece this year. The best photos will be exhibited and selected for the album “Colours of Orthodoxy. Greece”, to be published by the Polish Orthodox Church. Photo submissions are accepted until July 8, in the following categories: Places, Reportage, People, and Details. Participants are welcome to submit up…
His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain of the Ecumenical Patriarchate was elected as president of the Conference of European Churches during its General Assembly held in Tallinn on June 19. Archbishop Nikitas is the coordinator of the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Task Force on Human Trafficking and Modern-day Slavery and has served as chairman…
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I addressed the General Assembly of the Council of European Churches in Tallinn, Estonia on Sunday. His Holiness listed some of the challenges facing the ecumenical movement in today’s Europe. “The ecumenical movement thrived in a very different Europe than that which we know and live in today. In spite of the rhetoric…
In an interview for Turnul Sfatului (Council Tour), the director of the Basilica News Agency, patriarchal adviser Aurelian Iftimiu urged everyone to share “The Good to Know” online. The interview was occasioned by the 15th anniversary since the launch of Basilica News Agency’s website. “Initially thought of as a point of convergence for the other…
The Romanian Patriarchate’s Basilica News Agency marked its 15th anniversary on Friday. On this occasion, the agency’s director, Aurelian Iftimiu, was invited to “The Light of Knowledge” show on Radio Trinitas. He spoke with the producer Narcisa Urucu about the Church’s communication in the era of new media technologies, the need to provide the general…
On our 15th anniversary of online ministry, we want to share with you 15 things that you might not know about the Basilica News Agency. The Basilica News Agency is the only news agency of an Orthodox Autocephalous Church. Materials published on Basilica.ro are not interrupted by commercials. On average, our articles are accessed by…
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel has sent a congratulatory message to the Basilica News Agency on Friday, June 16, 2023, on the 15-year anniversary of journalistic activity. With this message, His Beatitude urged everyone to know and perform good. Please find below the full text of Patriarch Daniel’s message on Basilica News Agency’s 15th anniversary of…
The Basilica News Agency came into being along with the Basilica Media Centre on October 27, 2007. The official launch of the website and the publication of the first news items took place on June 16, 2008. The news website of the Romanian Patriarchate was conceived with the mission of “reflecting reality as seen by…
The General Assembly of the Conference of European Churches (CEC), an organisation made up of 114 Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican and Old Catholic churches on the continent, opened in Tallinn, Estonia, on Wednesday. The theme of this year’s edition – the 16th one – is “Under God’s blessing – shaping the future”. The hosts are the…
Patriarch Daniel of Romania sent an encouragment message on Thursday to Romania’s students who take national exams. Full text: Blessing and encouragement for exams Beloved students, dear young people, Throughout its history, which is also a cultural history, the Church has always supported and promoted schooling and the intellectual, spiritual and moral formation of man.…
A replica of the Pantanassa Icon of the Mother of God was installed last week in the Patriarchal Cathedral of Bucharest, where it will remain near the reliquary of Saint Demetrius the New, the Protector of Bucharest, with the blessing of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel. The icon, painted at the workshops of Vatopedi Monastery according…
His Eminence Hon Metropolitan Nifon, Archbishop of Targoviste, welcomed His Excellency Mr Peer Gebauer, Germany’s Ambassador to Romania, accompanied by his wife, at the archdiocesan residence. Prefect of Dâmbovița County Claudia Gilia, Senator Titus Corlățean, Dâmbovița County Council President Corneliu Ștefan, and the eparchial vicar Ionuț Adrian Ghibanu also attended the meeting. #Târgovişte & #Dâmboviţa…
The Romanian Patriarchate sent a humanitarian transport to Syria on Wednesday, to help people affected by the February earthquake. The aid was loaded onto a Romanian Air Force plane that took off from Otopeni Airport, bound for Beirut. The packages contained blood pressure monitors, glucometers, powdered milk, canned food, mattresses and other essential supplies. The…
“When we see an older person, let us pray like this: Lord, I entrust to your love the frailty of the one I meet on my way,” Bishop Ignatie told the clergy of Vaslui Deanery at a conference on June 6, 2023. During the meeting, the Bishop also spoke about the importance of home care…
His Eminence Archbishop Teodosie of Tomis participated in the celebrations of the “Holy Trinity” Church’s centenary of uninterrupted ministry in the Romanian language in Sofia. The hierarch also had a meeting with Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria. Although the church was consecrated on December 6, the series of celebratory events began on the feast of Pentecost.…
The remains of Protopsaltis Anton Pann were reburied last week in a new tomb at St. Stylianos – Lucaci Church in Bucharest. Our culture owes him numerous church hymn books printed in Romanian. “He was a chanter at many churches in Bucharest. He chanted at many monasteries in Wallachia and Transylvania. He wrote enormously for…
Faculty colleagues visited His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel at the Patriarchal Residence on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. Clergy who graduated from Sibiu’s Faculty of Orthodox Theology “St. Andrew Șaguna” in 1974 visited the Patriarchal Residence accompanied by their spouses. The day’s program began with the veneration of the relics of St. Demetrius the New, kept inside…
The Basilica Media Centre of the Romanian Patriarchate marked its patronal feast of the Holy Trinity on Pentecost Monday. The media staff attended the Divine Liturgy celebrated at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest by the patriarchal auxiliary bishop Varlaam of Ploiești, chief secretary of the Holy Synod and coordinator of the Basilica Media Centre. Concelebrants…